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Archive: 2023-12
Cindy Steinle · Dec 29, 2023
Photo of Gideon, a Grand Cayman hybrid bred by Ty Parks in FL, but living his best life safe in WIsconsin - Cindy Steinle
Recently, the State of Florida deemed all Green Iguanas (Iguana Iguana) as a restricted species and created quite a stir, confiscating animals from even private zoos and killing the animals rather than allowing them to be rehomed or allowed to remain on display at the zoo. Now in a move to destroy the reptile industry further, Florida Fish and Wildlife is making the move to change the language from Iguana (Iguana Iguana) to simply Iguana. This would thus include all species including Cyclura and Ctenosaura most definitely but potentially all species under the family Iguanidae which would also include Amblyrhynchus, Brachylophus, Cachryx, Conolophus, Dipsosaurus, and Sauromalus as well.
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kingsnake.com · Dec 29, 2023
Happy Rattlesnake Friday! What an amazing close up of this Massasauga uploaded by kingsnake.com user venombill! Be sure to tell them you liked it here! As always on Friday, we celebrate all of our venomous reptiles for their contribution to the world.
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kingsnake.com · Dec 28, 2023
This ball python is ready for it's close up in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user tsquier! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!
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kingsnake.com · Dec 27, 2023
This close up of a Rainbow Boa shows off their fantastic beauty so well our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user mjmullis ! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!
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kingsnake.com · Dec 26, 2023
Here is to hoping this hatchling albino Siamese Crocodile our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user crocodilepaul helps you survive today!! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!
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Cindy Steinle · Dec 26, 2023
Being dubbed "The world's bravest golfer", in reality, he is just an Australian playing golf. While teeing off, a golfer had some visitors at the tee pad.
The serpents have been identified as coastal carpet pythons, which don’t have fangs or venom, but are known for their “100 small, sharp teeth which have the ability to cause substantial needle-like lacerations.” No matter what, they use constriction to kill their prey, so perhaps stay away. Just in case
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kingsnake.com · Dec 22, 2023
Happy Rattlesnake Friday! How stunning is the red on this Speckled Rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus), uploaded by kingsnake.com user lichanura ! This Speck was found in Arizona. Be sure to tell them you liked it here! As always on Friday, we celebrate all of our venomous reptiles for their contribution to the world.
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kingsnake.com · Dec 21, 2023
This little Gargoyle is helping hang the lights in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user chrisvanaken! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!
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kingsnake.com · Dec 20, 2023
Santa Kismet is checking on the Reindeer Greyhounds in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Really ! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!
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kingsnake.com · Dec 19, 2023
These lil beardies are ready to have fun sledding in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user ginag! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!
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Cindy Steinle · Dec 19, 2023
The snake that was found in a bag carried by one of the guests at Immigration offices in Kampala recently. PHOTO/KARIM MUYOBO
When a man recently showed up at the immigration offices looking for services in Naguru, Kampala, security was stunned to find a large black snake in his bag. They were even more shocked to learn this large black snake was in fact a Cobra.
Mr Simon Peter Mundeyi, the spokesperson of the Internal Affairs ministry, said when the strange man was asked why he had carried such a dangerous reptile (a cobra), he said it is his "brother" and that he moves around with it wherever he goes
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Richard Bartlett · Dec 18, 2023
An Hispaniolan Bark Anole on the ascent in A Florida Hammock.
In some cases this variable species might be referred to as “that other Florida anole.”
It seems that no one is 100% certain how this Hispaniolan/Bahaman species reached Florida in 1946, but reach it, it did, perhaps as a whim of Mother Nature, but more likely the result of multiple whims by humans.
The species history of the Bark Anole, Anolis distichus, might be termed as “active.” At one point in time the Bark Anole was overloaded with 18 subspecies. But people seemed unable to decide if several of these were truly subspecies or were actually full species. Today nothing is definitive (so who is surprised?).
There are probably 2 subspecies of the Bark Anole in Florida. Except for overall color a single description fits both equally well.
There is the always some- shade- of- dark- banded- brown- or- gray A. d. floridana , and the often some- shade- of -green A. d. dominicensis.The throat fan of the males may vary individually from pale yellow to light orange. In all, the dark banding is straight and most prominent across the head from eyelid to eyelid and on the tail. Dorsal banding is in the form of narrow, often difficult to see, chevrons.
Both anole subspecies are arboreal, predominantly tree trunk/low limb, species.
Bark Anoles are one of the smaller species attaining an adult size of 4 to 5 inches of which a little more than half is tail length.
In Florida these little anoles are often found in colonies, are wary, and can be difficult to approach.
Ants and other small crawling insects seem to be the favored prey of this species.
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Cindy Steinle · Dec 18, 2023
Garter snakes come together in communities led by older females, new research shows.ALL CANADA PHOTOS/ALAMY
The general belief is that snakes are solitary animals, but as more research into these animals happens we are learning that many have very developed social communities. In a first of it's kind study of thousands of wild snakes, we learn that Garter snakes have a very complex community with social structures and a female based hierarchy.
Ecologists had long assumed snakes are antisocial loners that hang out together only for core functions such as mating and hibernation. However, in 2020, Morgan Skinner, a behavioral ecologist at Wilfrid Laurier University, and collaborators showed in laboratory experiments that captive garter snakes have “friends”—specific snakes whose company they prefer over others. Still, studies of wild snakes were lacking “because they’re so secretive and difficult to find,” Skinner says.
Then he learned that the Ontario Ministry of Transportation had funded an unprecedented long-term study of a huge population of Butler’s garter snakes (Thamnophis butleri) in Windsor, Canada. Ecologists began to monitor the flute-size slitherers in 2009 to keep them safe from nearby road construction. They regularly captured snakes in the 250-hectare study area, using identifying markings to track more than 3000 individuals over a 12-year span—about the lifetime of a garter snake.
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kingsnake.com · Dec 18, 2023
Santa Mango wants to know if you have been naughty or nice in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user rileysquared ! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!
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kingsnake.com · Dec 15, 2023
Happy Rattlesnake Friday! How stunning is the red on this Speckled Rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus), uploaded by kingsnake.com user lichanura ! This Speck was found in Arizona. Be sure to tell them you liked it here! As always on Friday, we celebrate all of our venomous reptiles for their contribution to the world.
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