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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Nov 19, 2012 - 08:59pm PT
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the last thing I saw before the deadly Green Mamba bit me when I got too close while taking a photo...
not really, just a vine snake I saw on a hike today, it was shedding its skin (the junk hanging off its neck) and was making nosie in the leaf litter and rocks trying to rub up against something abrasive, then went up into a tree when I came over to photograph it.
you guys are in trouble now that I've found a thread for my herp photos
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Nov 19, 2012 - 09:12pm PT
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road kill boa? my how things have changed.
re-homing my snake this week, after 13 years. I am letting a Marine recruiter take her in. He has two young boys that will benefit more from her than myself. Since I am not in the classroom any longer I feel like she is being neglected.
Going to be different without her. Pea brain or not, she knows her daddy.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 20, 2012 - 06:06pm PT
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BES, interesting stuff. I have heard about the analgesic properties of
Mamba Juice. Venoms are so complex and little studied aside from the
development of anti-venins. The Mamba also has rather 'dainty' fangs so it
doesn't leave much of a puncture wound. I saw some S African 'expert' get
tagged by one. He was really lucky in that it just grazed him with one fang
and he was able to make it to a hospital that had the anti-juice. I consider
rattlesnakes far less scary to mess with than Mambas. In fact, I would say
the Mamba scares me the most and they do love the high grass. <shudder>
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 20, 2012 - 06:55pm PT
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Did you hear about the one that hitch hiked on the underside of a vehicle that had visited a a South African park.
After a 165 mile drive home the driver got out an was bitten.
Makes me feel a little better about that Australian hitch hiker I took out of my way only to have him break the door handle and say how cheap they make them and walk off.
But I don't give rides any more.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 30, 2012 - 03:39pm PT
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16' Burmese hauled outta its hole!
BigBurmeseMomma!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 30, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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They shot a 17' Burmese in Florida this week - the pussies didn't want to try and take it alive.
Or they didn't figure they would find anyone with enough bank to feed it.
Little Z, where are those pics you threatened us with?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 30, 2012 - 02:26pm PT
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Why bother, Reilly?
Don't they have 100,000+ wild ones in the glades now?
A very serious problem, unlikely to ever be solved.
If it was me I'd say plink 'em in the brain with a .22.
The african rock pythons are worse though.
Interesting that this thread pops up (and I see my comments on leopards).
I caught a yearling leopard 2 months ago, and at first he wouldn't eat.
He started to shrivel up, and bunged up his snout against the glass.
But 3 weeks ago things turned around.
He's not eating mealworms yet but he wolfs down crickets and now has a fat belly.
A week ago he shed, a good sign.
The markings are magnificent, spots and reticulation.
And while his fellows hide for the winter he is up in the loft, 78 degrees plus a warm spot, bulking up.
Still quite feisty, but he doesn't hide from me any more or open his mouth to bite when I reach in.
He seems to know who dad is.
A little bigger and I'll give him a pinky mouse. Then he'll really start to grow.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 30, 2012 - 02:36pm PT
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Ron, you know I was only trolling. I say put a bounty on 'em; the market
will at least mitigate the problem. Nuthin' a hillbilly loves more than
plinking varmints, eh?
Be nice to yer new kitty.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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16 months ago I got to tell some of my friends that I had been attacked in my home late at night, that there was blood on the walls of three rooms, and that the perp was in custody and might not survive.
They all had the same reaction; "OMG Ron finally shot somebody!"
Except,.....
the blood was all mine.
After nearly nine years of being friendly and docile my male leopard gecko, named Osama (because he was from Pakistan and liked hiding in his cave) suddenly turned on me and went right for my Achilles' heel, my trigger finger. He's got this hooked "beak" and bit to the bone without letting go, and then started to violently wriggle to exacerbate the injury.
After about a minute of shaking him over his terrarium and slapping him against the glass he let go and screamed at me three times!
He had never vocalized before!
He is Ozzy the Devil Gecko revealed!
Since then the finger healed well but Ozzy has been on half rations. He gets to look at the female in the next terrarium that I got for him, but he's never gonna get to tap that ass. I haven't cleaned his poo, and when I get crickets I show them and he gets all excited like a dog, so I hold the bag up against the glass and he lunges and bangs his beak (that never gets old). Then I feed the other lizards first and extravagantly. Then I drop his crickets on his poo pile, and when he lunges at them and misses I laugh at him and he gives me a dirty look.
He still has attitude, and when I hold his toy dinosaur in front of him he attacks it in the same manner. I just leave it hanging over his cave and eventually he lets go.
I feel sorry for the lonely female, but she gets the 40 gallon and Ozzy gets the 5.
If I walk by with a cold drink and he acts aggressive I spit some on him, to which he responds with the "is that all ya got Pops?" look.
Definitely a hatefest. I threaten to put him out in the yard with the neighbors cat weekly (with luck they'd do each other in).
The female is beautiful and timid. I doubt she would bite me, but I've said that before. They're reptiles! Reptile politics is like insect politics.
But the juvenile leopard lizard I caught has never tried to bite me again, now lets me pet him, comes over and climbs onto my hand, and has grown substantially.
But he is an escape artist,..
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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What is this critter? I am guessing an Imantodes (genus) species?
Edit- from Moskitia Honduras
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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On the approach to the GP Apron:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I saw one of those half way up the Apron. It was a bit of a shock.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Beautiful
Here is a good one from the patio
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 12, 2014 - 01:14pm PT
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Very nice, Stahlbro!
Mike, that's a Speckled sub-species, right?
Love that lizard also!
Sally and I have a relationship. Who could resist those eyes?
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Aug 12, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
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Nice midget faded rattler shots! Those things are really hard to spot!
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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 12, 2014 - 02:05pm PT
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Having experienced the delights of a gecko bite personally, Toker will appreciate this anecdote from the years I worked on a mine site in tropical asian forest. A huge individual of his near-namesake Tokay gecko had taken up residence in the rafters of the open-sided bar on the site, from which perch he would gorge on insects attracted by the light and constantly sh#t on the heads of bar patrons, moving from place to place when bombing targets below became scarce. Swearing from below only encouraged his loud ringing calls of Fuuccckk-offf, Fuccckkk-offf. Firearms not being permitted on site, remedies had long been discussed over many beers, but there was no way any of the beefy mining guys was going up there to do anything about it. When enough offers of free beers came from all corners of the bar one evening, I agreed to take care of the problem. Swarming drunkenly up into the rickety, spider-infested roof structure, I zeroed in on the foot-long beastie, him gaping and hissing and me hanging from a beam realizing that no amount of beer would be enough compensation for providing the entertaining spectacle of getting chomped. Somehow I managed to slam my palm down fast enough to get a vise grip behind the jaws of death and reverse-dyno back down to the floor. All good so far, but the anticlimax was having to tramp far enough out into the forest in the dark to relocate the lizard where he wouldn't be back in place before I could collect my beers. It was a pretty unique backdrop for what would otherwise be just a routine lizard capture.
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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May 27, 2019 - 04:58pm PT
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A few recent “I-phoney-camera” pics...
“Short-tailed” fence lizard on vesicular basalt
Long-nosed leopard lizard (~1 foot in overall length), that apparently just ate lunch, or is about to make more lizards
Great Basin gopher snake (~3.5 feet in length)
Great Basin gopher snake in my driveway a few days ago (~3 feet in length)
Edit:
vvv Ha! Nice hat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_lizard
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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May 27, 2019 - 07:25pm PT
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whatever the underlying critter is ... on top, it's a frickin' fly!
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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May 27, 2019 - 09:24pm PT
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mystery crotalid from Bruneau R country
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