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Nice vid, I enjoyed it. That is a full on adult boa, nice one too. Good job!

Interesting read. A lot of conclusions made based on one sided lineage. It would appear based on that study that quite possibly X. acanthognathus may be deemed invalid and/or the white/yellowish nape be more prevalent in X. shaeferi. In any case, to have found something that has rarely been observed...

I’ll check it out.

Great post!

Question, what differentiates your Xenophidion schaeferi from Xenophidion acanthognathus?

E-mail sent.

I saw one at the enterance to Whitewater years ago. I pulled in and a group were spotlighting it going up the hill. Pretty cool to see. When I say years ago it was about twenty or more.

Hatchling to yearling Black Ratsnake. No question.

Fire Drake wrote:And then there was this...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38592390

Perspective. Well done!

Because they do morph, the pseudacris, doesn’t a morph make.

Kelly Mc wrote:I wonder if Porter has a different ability to see colors - if a person can be color blind maybe the opposite is true.

When did you find out you were color blind?

When I was in the first or second grade. About four in a hundred people are colorblind, mostly males.

Haven't noticed in any animals I've kept in the past where the opacity isn't evenly distributed pre-shed dulling the overall appearance of the snake. Certainly none of it in the eyes, and no pre-shed wrinkles noted. Still you could be right. I have noticed it early on in the process, that the opaci...

Haven't noticed in any animals I've kept in the past where the opacity isn't evenly distributed pre-shed dulling the overall appearance of the snake. Certainly none of it in the eyes, and no pre-shed wrinkles noted. Still you could be right.

Porter beautiful Kingsnake. I see what you mean, the color does stand out brightly in contrast to it's base color, no question. As far as the color it looks somewhat green. That being said I'm colorblind so no doubt it's yellow, and very striking, it' pops. Kelly, I see the iridescence like appearan...

I definitely spend a lot less time here looking at posts since the change. It was so much easier to check out the rest of the nation and what was being seen out there when it was categorized as such. Might as well get rid of the board line and the news...too. The rational for combining the chapters ...

Walking a shoreline checking fishing licenses involves checking people who are fishing or in possession of fishing gear. LE are not leaving fishing rods on the beech hoping someone picks one up and starts casting. Great analogy. Like I stated "While I don't necessarily disagree with you..." , not e...

Very edge of the their range I suspect, but certainly makes sense. Plenty of water in good years, not to mention the ponds on the other side of the crossing with fish. Interesting on the e-mail, never been approached in that manner. Been approached on the road with an obvious upper desert boa before...

They are. Don't recall ever seeing one there.

I recall the enyo thread.

A friend found a pine snake there also.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you (semantics I guess), FG is checking for licenses, no different than walking a shoreline checking fishing licenses, no baiting required...by them. It is more newsworthy to them to use this baiting scheme to promote that people are poaching wildlife rather t...

Ha, well this turned into something that I haven't seen here in quite sometime. Reminds me of the old days of the forums.

As far as Species of Special Concern goes they have no legal status of protection so as long as you are otherwise legal, interact as you wish.

No.

I've always adored the night sky when in Borrego, nice shot. Thanks for sharing them all.

Used to be a great place for waterfowl hunting back in the day.

It's a Red spotted toad. Whitewater red spotted toads: http://www.fototime.com/5BD2A3BC8323E44/standard.jpg http://www.fototime.com/24583BA83E7FD02/standard.jpg http://www.fototime.com/035C10E836235A0/standard.jpg Here is one from either Arizona or the Kingstons, I don't recall and could be another ...

It's a Red Spotted Toad. Very common there.

That looks like it's in the skin not on the skin. Most likely a scar. Looks more grey to me.

My guess is Trachemys scripta scripta, otherwise known as the Yellow Bellied Slider. A real old one.

It's a male thing.
Interestingly, that looks like the same Salamandra infraimmaculata you posted on March 5th from your trip in Feb.

The long flipper is why I settled on Sea Lion also.

Sea Lion most likely.

No way that's a harbor seal. The thing that gets me about this creature is the separation from body to fin. It's a funny angle to be sure but there is something about it that doesn't make sense, otherwise I would go with Orca. If that is a dorsal fin that would be the only animal I can think. The ot...

Naja Bungarus wrote:Hi.

This is most likely a Oligodon sp., it's not the rice paddy snake

In all likelihood.

Out of curiosity where in Thailand was the picture taken?

Possibly a Rice Paddy Snake.

Well this is interesting.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e ... 33064.html

You tried to change said assertion

I didn't try I did change the assertion.

Yes I'm just a lay person of below average intelligence. Doesn't mean I am going to take everything someone says at face value without some thought.

There is no proof that humans, cattle or God is causing any sort of Climate change. When the word evidence is thrown around the source of that evidence must first be considered. What do the providers of the evidence have to gain based on their findings. The one thing that is certain is that the Cli...

I qualified it by saying 60 years. Peaking in the mid 70's. It appears that you are in denial and wont even admit you were wrong. It's clear that you lack the capacity to be objective. I never said it was warmer in the past. I'm trying to grasp cause and effect. For a scientist, all due respects, yo...

And you're also just talking out of your ass when you say there were more cattle in the US in the early 1900s. That is an easily searchable and verifiable fact. And you're wrong. http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/graphs_tables/highlights25_cattle.PNG Maybe, instead of being dismissive, you...

You're right I wasn't taking the term seriously. I don't know how it has anything to do with global warming but as for the process it's worth a look.

Spoken like a true denier, not a skeptic. You lost me at "97% of scientists" , and "If we do nothing, and scientists are wrong, great." "There are plenty of solutions being offered by scientists, but the key is aggressive solutions and aggressive regulations. Addiction to beef and addiction to oil ...

Rpcora dont let a succinct combination of words ie; addiction to beef, bounce against a wall of rhetorical impression. The impacts of factory farming are heavy weight impacts and the money involved in its systematic discretion to the public on all levels keep that discretion carefully and powerfull...

Spoken like a true denier, not a skeptic. You lost me at "97% of scientists" , and "If we do nothing, and scientists are wrong, great." "There are plenty of solutions being offered by scientists, but the key is aggressive solutions and aggressive regulations. Addiction to beef and addiction to oil ...

Loads of false conclusions, that's why it was changed from global warming to climate change. The data just doesn't support global warming and .00000001 degree Celsius increase in the planets temperature doesn't justify the boondoggle that is climate change, IMO. Green energy hasn't proven to be the...

Before I get into this I am certainly no expert. I do have some sense of what's going on and try to view the evidence objectively, but lacking creativity I fail sometimes to understand convoluted yet meaningful intent. When I say evidence it's just reports from both sides trying to make a case. The ...

Overall the earth will be warming... How do you know that? Of maximum minimum that didn't stop the Burmese Python problem in the southeast. While it did have and effect when they had that wicked cold spell a few years ago it didn't wipe them out to the best of my knowledge. So, I'm not all to sure ...

Agreed, but epidemics and war are unlikely to have any lasting long term impact. The natural culling of populations isn't suppose to be lasting or we and the rest of what's left of life wouldn't be here now. Climate change is impacting different groups of herps differently and will continue to do s...

Kelly Mc wrote:Money is one epic anomaly that makes us different from everything else alive

That is true. Therein lies the rub.

All respects. Humans are aberrant in almost every way in their relationship to other organisms and natural systems on the planet. We have willfully divorced ourselves from being a part of nature to being a super-parasite. I don't disagree with that statement (parasite) we are to some degree I suppos...

Fair enough, but this is what I read: So I went back and looked at historical weather for Savannah GA. (weather underground) and the results are pretty disturbing. January 1988 January 2017 ... I am more worried with over development than climate change. The impact of over development will have a m...

How about the other years in between? This is meaningless really. I could probably find a another year other than 1988 since records have been taken and find the opposite outcome. Below average temps beginning Friday for about a week is forecast as well. I wouldn't get too worried about it. I love h...