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- December 7th, 2020, 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 352
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Wikipedia has always worked for me.
- October 22nd, 2020, 10:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 720
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Ok I understand ,around here people call that "road kill" or sometimes slang "road pizza"BillMcGighan wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2020, 2:29 pmA DOR is a herp that is "Dead On Road".
Yes there are AORs
- October 22nd, 2020, 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 720
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
I've not witnessed live ophiophagous behavior in Cottonmouths but have occasionally found water snakes in the gut of DORs. From the 1907 edition of The Reptile Book by Raymond L. Ditmars where he describes herping in a swamp in South Carolina during a drought : “The drying up of the water appeared ...
- October 16th, 2020, 9:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 720
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Just saw a Mozambique spitting Cobra eat a Puff Adder,no huge surprise in an Elapid eating a Viper,if the Viper eat the Elapid,a bit more surprising.
I guess a lot primarily rodent eating snakes will eat snakes when rodents are not available.
I guess a lot primarily rodent eating snakes will eat snakes when rodents are not available.
- October 16th, 2020, 12:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 720
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Here in NC, I've seen a photo of a copperhead eating a corn snake (not another viper). I've also seen a couple of photos of black racers eating copperheads, and of course eastern kingsnakes eating various snake species. I use this info, whenever possible, to deter people from killing snakes indiscr...
- October 11th, 2020, 10:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 720
Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
So I saw a YouTube video of a cotton mouth killing and eating a rattlesnake,I'd guess a very small Eastern Diamondback.I couldn't get how to put the video into the post but if you go to youtube and put in "water moccasin eats rattlesnake it should come up. I have never heard of this before,has anyon...
- June 24th, 2020, 3:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Some young gators from northeastern North Carolina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1302
Re: Some young gators from northeastern North Carolina
There is supposedly some type of crocodilian species in lake Onota in Pittsfield Massachusetts.The Mass environmental police are staking out the lake in order to see if purported sightings are accurate. Being that Alligator's are not native anywhere near Massachusetts it would have to be an exotic p...
- May 27th, 2020, 2:36 am
- Forum: Board Line
- Topic: Climate change revisited
- Replies: 173
- Views: 131458
Re: Climate change revisited
88 fahrenheit in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts yesterday in may,it must have topped 90 in Boston.There is something going on with the climate,that's for sure.
- May 17th, 2020, 2:38 am
- Forum: Board Line
- Topic: Putting the blame on Asian Wet Markets and Covid-19
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1576
Re: Putting the blame on Asian Wet Markets and Covid-19
We already know the wet markets are likely to blame,the WHO said so via REUTERS.
There was already a thread on this matter but I had in locked due to fighting and bickering.
There was already a thread on this matter but I had in locked due to fighting and bickering.
- April 14th, 2020, 3:26 am
- Forum: Board Line
- Topic: Snakes and the Alaskan land bridge
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1948
Re: Snakes and the Alaskan land bridge
Thanks for taking the time, Bill. I just couldn't deal with the goofiness. It's a matter of evidence, not of opinion. cheers I certainly welcome any critical responses and I am not a professional scientist by any means and maybe it's just coincidence that there are similarities between snake specie...
- April 8th, 2020, 2:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herping in New Hampshire
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1941
Re: Herping in New Hampshire
Hey NHherper, I am also A New Englander,I am from the Berkshire's.Your lucky to see that Timber,I have never seen a rattlesnake or copperhead in the wild.
Where about's in New Hampshire did you see that Timber,they say there is fewer than 200 left in N.H
Where about's in New Hampshire did you see that Timber,they say there is fewer than 200 left in N.H
- March 25th, 2020, 9:56 am
- Forum: Board Line
- Topic: Snakes and the Alaskan land bridge
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1948
Snakes and the Alaskan land bridge
This is a post on the Alaskan land bridge theory,a belief I hold that North American snakes came from east Asia and crossed the Alaskan land bridge at a time when the climate was hospitable to snakes. North America has pit vipers and one species of Elapid,the Coral snake which are both found in east...
- February 26th, 2020, 4:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Odd colored Large Eyes Pit Viper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2104
Re: Odd colored Large Eyes Pit Viper
Another great video Lou,you are certainly couragous picking up that pit viper,likely wouldn't kill you but would have been a painful bite.
- January 18th, 2020, 3:01 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My scariest experience while herping caught on video
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3377
Re: My scariest experience while herping caught on video
Where's the video,I don't see a link.
- December 7th, 2019, 3:34 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Montana Milksnake
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1320
Re: Montana Milksnake
Milkshakes can do well in cold weather area's and l have seen them in Vermont.
I once had to call fish and game because there was a milksnake in a Vermont laundry mat.But when fish and game arrived the snake escaped under the driers.
I once had to call fish and game because there was a milksnake in a Vermont laundry mat.But when fish and game arrived the snake escaped under the driers.
- November 16th, 2019, 6:06 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Venomous Snakes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1887
Re: Top 10 Venomous Snakes
Awesome video,never realized there are so many Krait species
- September 27th, 2019, 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Finding Snakes in the City
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10405
Re: Finding Snakes in the City
Great video,I really liked that Green Mamba or maybe it was a Jamison's Mamba,they did'nt show it for very long so it was hard to tell, in that snake room.Your awfuly brave I would have been in big boots in that tall grass.
- September 26th, 2019, 5:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Chinese Cobras Spit?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11736
Re: Chinese Cobras Spit?
Stereotypicaly African cobras are spitters and Asian Cobras are bitters but there are a few Asian Cobras that spit.I think Bangladesh has a spitting cobra
- September 21st, 2019, 3:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Chinese Cobras Spit?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11736
Re: Chinese Cobras Spit?
Great video I really liked that
- August 30th, 2019, 4:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SF Bay Area Rubber boa Herping Advice?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17071
Re: SF Bay Area Rubber boa Herping Advice?
Try Talking to the locals.stop at a store that sells outdoor supplies or a gun store.hunters know terrain.ask people at those types of stores,they may know where to go
- August 28th, 2019, 8:36 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SF Bay Area Rubber boa Herping Advice?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17071
Re: SF Bay Area Rubber boa Herping Advice?
You got there habitat down for sure.you have done your research that's for sure.If you can find that habitat you should be successful.animals need a certain habitat and if you find the habitat you can usually find the animal or reptile.if your lucky enough to find someone here who knows Santa Cruz t...
- August 17th, 2019, 3:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Charina bottae distribution
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23947
Re: Charina bottae distribution
Rubber boas are officially known to live in Nevada as well as Wyoming,Montana and even British Columbia
- July 27th, 2019, 3:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15773
Re: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
The Eastern Ghats run along India's Eastern coast, starting from the Khallikote mountains (the one we visited above) and going down further South into Peninsular India. The biodiversity here is very poorly documented compared to the Western Ghats. you read and see a lot on television about the West...
- July 26th, 2019, 6:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15773
Re: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
I've heard of the Western Ghats but never heard of the eastern Ghats.where are they
- July 26th, 2019, 1:54 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15773
Re: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
Nice photos looks like you had a fun trip.
- July 22nd, 2019, 11:22 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: North American big cats
- Replies: 34
- Views: 69874
Re: North American big cats
A friend of mine said she saw a cougar on a bike path in Turner's falls Massachusetts
- July 19th, 2019, 10:12 pm
- Forum: Board Line
- Topic: Climate change revisited
- Replies: 173
- Views: 131458
Re: Climate change revisited
I live in the far Western part of the state,not near Boston.its been cold here
- July 19th, 2019, 6:49 am
- Forum: Board Line
- Topic: What is a species subspecies? Layman thoughts...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 33019
Re: What is a species subspecies? Layman thoughts...
There are milkshakes that grow to 5 feet long in Massachusetts I don't there at least a sub species senerio.I don't know about the other snakes
- July 18th, 2019, 7:34 am
- Forum: Board Line
- Topic: Climate change revisited
- Replies: 173
- Views: 131458
Re: Climate change revisited
It has not been getting warmer where I live.The last two years have been colder if anything.last fall we had snow on October and we had snow in May this spring.not usual for Massachusetts