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- September 27th, 2017, 11:50 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: State pushes to tighten wild reptile collection rules-Nevada
- Replies: 235
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Re: State pushes to tighten wild reptile collection rules-Ne
I think there is a genuine need for all animal people to come together and realize that some give and take could go a long way toward making sure the future is bright and that we crank out as many people who want to preserve reptiles and other animals for the future as possible exist. That's a nice...
- September 24th, 2017, 9:09 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10084
Re: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
How much further North are you planning? The trip will basically be from Anza to Mojave (possibly with stops down to the Mexican and Arizona borders) then circling the Sierras from Kennedy Meadows to Yosemite and then down to Sequoia. I've hit the coast the last three times I was in America (even i...
- September 22nd, 2017, 7:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10084
Re: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
SurfinHerp wrote:You gonna cruise down to SD County while you're in So. Cal.??
Jeff
I think our main targets are going to be further north, but we have to hit Anza-Borrego and surrounding environs well so I can show him that mecca for the first time.
- September 18th, 2017, 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10084
Re: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
I think a Subaru wagon would also serve, but I dunno if the rental companies buy those. In the midst of all that grumbling, I think you hit a real winner here. https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5461/17612844969_722828e34d_z.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8894/17799502781_d79537d9d9_z.jpg https://c4....
- September 17th, 2017, 2:21 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10084
Re: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
Those new little jeeps look pretty sweet. I'm not sure if they are available to rent yet. Kind of reminds me of the old samurai type vehicle. Small, fuel efficient but decent clearance and has 4 wheel drive. That sounds like the ideal vehicle, but I'm not even looking for ideal really. Simple "...
- September 16th, 2017, 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10084
Advice on an affordable rental for a herping trip
I'm possibly looking to rent a car for a herping trip. Not planning to be doing any off-roading or high-grade roads. 90% of the job will just be getting places on highways and road-cruising, and I'd like to do that as affordably (both rental-wise and fuel-wise) and environmentally-efficiently as pos...
- July 23rd, 2017, 10:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Three new toad species in Nevada
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11371
Three new toad species in Nevada
Not quite a typical pure DNA splitting game, looks like each one is in a quite isolated habitat and morphologically distinct. They're Bufo boreas complex but only about two inches long “The Dixie Valley toad is a pretty toad, with flecks of gold on an olive background,” Tracy, a long-time professor ...
- July 17th, 2017, 10:00 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20294
Re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida
Sorry to beat an old, dead horse, but if I were a FL taxpayer I would be outraged at paying for some foreign guys to essentially go on a vacation and walk around looking for snakes. Yes, I'm sure that the average Florida taxpayer's largest concern is the 0.002 dollars that they had to give towards ...
- June 19th, 2017, 7:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: HerpMapper vs NAHERP vs iNaturalist
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14287
Re: HerpMapper vs NAHERP vs iNaturalist
I stopped submitting records. Use to use an eTrex Legend, via serial port. PC motherboard don't have serial ports anymore. There are adapters but getting them to work in Linux (my OS) hasn't always worked. Bought a USB Garmin. It worked until I lost the cable, and it seems Garmin requires a Garmin ...
- June 15th, 2017, 11:12 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New to Oregon
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3563
Re: New to Oregon
I don't live in Oregon anymore, but used to and know the little corner in the extreme Northwest (Columbia and Multnomah Counties, and to a much lesser degree Hood River, Washington, Linn, Clatsop, Tillamook, and Yamhill Counties) fairly well. I've also done a bit of herping in other counties south, ...
- June 15th, 2017, 11:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: HerpMapper vs NAHERP vs iNaturalist
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14287
Re: HerpMapper vs NAHERP vs iNaturalist
I prefer NAHERP because I felt it was set up best to include the most collaborators and have the best community feel to the project. Some of that has been lost now, but I still see it as the best option of those available.
- June 11th, 2017, 11:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Undercover DFG?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5247
Re: Undercover DFG?
I would think border patrol, even a bit further north than usual.
- June 11th, 2017, 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: herping Eugene/Portland area late june
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2031
Re: herping Eugene/Portland area late june
Turtles and frogs and garter snakes in lakes and marshes. Garter snakes and alligator lizards and racers in meadows/clearings/clearcuts. Stream salamanders and frogs in forested streams in the hills. In Portland, Google Earth will quickly lead you towards places where you can find stuff if you look ...
- June 11th, 2017, 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Community Snake Workshop in Manila
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2850
Re: Community Snake Workshop in Manila
Quite late, I got a really nice follow-up message about the workshop. Hey, very very much overdue is this little HUGE Thank you! for the workshop on snakes you did with our crew in February. You are in best (and most memorable!) memory to them. "Jon approaches the forest differently", they...
- April 25th, 2017, 11:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Doi Suthep from top to bottom
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3854
Re: Doi Suthep from top to bottom
Thank you!Fieldnotes wrote:Amazing post, especially how creatively it is displayed.
I had almost forgotten about this post, until I found out that one of my DOR ID's was wrong and fixed it right now.
- April 25th, 2017, 9:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A "my kid with a snake" shot that you haven't gotten
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3533
Re: A "my kid with a snake" shot that you haven't gotten
Woww. Its cool how clearly the snake is focused on going about its way and the photo has that same feel as the type you see with like, the ghosts of victorian twins superimposed in the background only its real, just a natural moment of an epic snake with human beings superimposed on its life and en...
- April 24th, 2017, 9:53 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A "my kid with a snake" shot that you haven't gotten
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3533
A "my kid with a snake" shot that you haven't gotten
https://s.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/dd049f79e479bba15eba133a841f3b08/205114298/Screen+Shot+2017-03-31+at+10.37.50+AM.png When Bianca Dickinson's 2-year-old daughter was playing around in the driveway of their home on Monday, she thought she would snap a few cute photos of the child. Instead, she...
- April 24th, 2017, 9:52 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Jumping for Joy: Rana draytonii/Red legged frog in L. A. Co,
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10481
Re: Jumping for Joy: Rana draytonii/Red legged frog in L. A.
That's awesome. I wonder if this is the population that many of us know of and have been to before, or if it's a different naturally established one, or a reintroduction locale. If it's the spot I've been to before, I would be pleasantly surprised because that locale looked very borderline for the c...
- April 24th, 2017, 9:50 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Habit of wanting to own nature’s beauty needs to be broken
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10602
Re: Habit of wanting to own nature’s beauty needs to be brok
I thought this was going to be about private property and land ownership.
I get that the desire to own animals is often misplaced, but the desire to own land is much more problematic for their welfare.
I get that the desire to own animals is often misplaced, but the desire to own land is much more problematic for their welfare.
- April 24th, 2017, 9:46 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20294
Re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida
The pilot project, being funded by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is also relatively cheap: just $68,888 for two tribesmen and two translators for two months. Armed only with tire irons to punch through dense burma reed and sharp limestone rock and trailed by biologists, the...
- April 24th, 2017, 9:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 30-some reptiles died in Zoo Knoxville
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11159
Re: 30-some reptiles died in Zoo Knoxville
Something similar, on a much smaller scale, happened in my own room once when I was a kid. I had recently hatched a clutch of six corn snakes. Four of the babies were doing quite well, one was deformed and was pretty unlikely to make it, one was runted and I doubted it would make it either. I also h...
- April 3rd, 2017, 11:00 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Man Eaters
- Replies: 91
- Views: 37482
Re: Man Eaters
Hunter–gatherers and other primates as prey, predators, and competitors of snakes Thomas N. Headlanda,1 and Harry W. Greeneb,1 25% of Philippine Agta Negritos men had been attacked by pythons. Snake attacks were a part of life for those people. Perhaps our fear and fascination with giant man eating...
- April 3rd, 2017, 1:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Man Eaters
- Replies: 91
- Views: 37482
Re: Man Eaters
I appreciate this discussion and the thorough documentation Jeremy provided. Summarizing the photos and accounts in one place is much appreciated. Ernie's predictable appearance and personal attacks on scientists aside, I thought we'd have more discussion of the Headland and Greene PNAS paper. 25% ...
- March 21st, 2017, 9:45 pm
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Aquatic animal ID
- Replies: 20
- Views: 58819
Re: Aquatic animal ID
Jonathan, do you know how far out in the Bay they were, and where they canoed out from, ie Santa Cruz, Monterey, or Moss Landing? My guess is the fin is the foreflipper of a California Sea Lion, and the spots are bits of water. I think the seal lion is doing a corkscrew dive, checking out the canoe...
- March 15th, 2017, 10:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Please contribute to the H.E.R.P. database!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 43320
Re: Please contribute to the H.E.R.P. database!
Actually after several tries, did manage to get the lat long in, but the last straw was of all things humidity. Tried all kinds of combos, finally just gave up, it was a long day of herping, and just lost patience The humidity field is completely optional, and in my mind unnecessary. You can just l...
- March 15th, 2017, 12:15 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Please contribute to the H.E.R.P. database!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 43320
Re: Please contribute to the H.E.R.P. database!
Unfortunately i tried to enter data, and it kept telling me to enter it in certain formats, i tried and it kept rejecting it, saying it wasn't entered right, after several tries i gave up frustrated. If data needs to be formatted, the program on the site should convert it automatically, a shame tha...
- March 7th, 2017, 11:55 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Aquatic animal ID
- Replies: 20
- Views: 58819
Re: Aquatic animal ID
Nice insights! Perhaps we finally have a good candidate?
- February 12th, 2017, 11:38 pm
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: What was your last lifer?...
- Replies: 381
- Views: 998203
Re: What was your last lifer?...
Short trip to Manila produced Yellow-vented Bulbul, Spotted Wood Kingfisher, Blue-eared Kingfisher, and a couple Red-crested Malkoha
Also saw a francolin/partridge of some sort and a nightjar of some sort that both would have been lifers if I’d been able to ID them.
Also saw a francolin/partridge of some sort and a nightjar of some sort that both would have been lifers if I’d been able to ID them.
- February 12th, 2017, 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3422
Re: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
DanW wrote:You should contact Rafe Brown at KU, he has done extensive work in the Philippines. https://biodiversity.ku.edu/herpetology
Dan
Thanks a ton Dan. Rafe was in the field, but Luke Welton of KU provided the exact help that I needed.
- February 12th, 2017, 11:28 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Community Snake Workshop in Manila
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2850
Community Snake Workshop in Manila
A few months ago someone got word that I'd be in Manila for a conference (my first time outside India in 1.5 years) and asked if I'd be willing to lead a community snake workshop in their area. The people extending the invitation were a small and quite young network of Christian organic farms and tr...
- February 12th, 2017, 9:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Waiting for Herps - herping while staying still
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6454
Re: Waiting for Herps - herping while staying still
Another is a spot in west Texas where you can sit for hours in the car watching the interactions of Racerunners. This includes foraging, territorial spats, and mating (which is more like rape in their world.) That was a good mention. I remember a similar experience of watching Cozumel Whiptails on ...
- February 11th, 2017, 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Waiting for Herps - herping while staying still
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6454
Waiting for Herps - herping while staying still
I've had a number of people, I think Flaxington and Trageser specifically, recommend the seldom-practiced technique of simply sitting still and seeing what herps (or other denizens of nature) show up. And I nearly never have the patience for it, nor am I certain that they do. But every once in a whi...
- January 23rd, 2017, 7:20 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3422
Re: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
Thank you both!
I've emailed Rafe - hopefully he can get back to me quickly.
I've emailed Rafe - hopefully he can get back to me quickly.
- January 21st, 2017, 6:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3422
Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
I happen to be passing through Manila briefly soon, and a friend has asked me if I could give a little workshop/presentation on snakes in a local community. Apparently, the community is made up of many people who were relocated to this forest/farming area from the city, and they’re not particularly ...
- December 21st, 2016, 12:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Some washington county herps
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2847
Re: Some washington county herps
Nice post
- December 20th, 2016, 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ID this salamander larvae
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2365
ID this salamander larvae
Picture from my dad. I have my guess, but I want to get other opinions before I put it in the database.
- October 7th, 2016, 8:43 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: An interesting article on the place of science in society
- Replies: 68
- Views: 42140
Re: An interesting article on the place of science in societ
I had a lot of professors who would have probably joined a suicide cult if Feynman led it. He was legendary in physics circles, and for good reason. A major issue I had with him, though, is that he frequently degraded the "philosophy of science", even though he (unintentionally?) spoke out...
- October 6th, 2016, 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Short southern Rajasthan trip: mammals>herps, stories>pics
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5305
Short southern Rajasthan trip: mammals>herps, stories>pics
My first stop was Jaipur where my wife had a workshop to attend. Though I didn't get the chance to herp, even our short excursion to the city lake resulted in a chance encounter with this fantastic softshell turtle: http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff45/Jonathan_Daehnke/India/P1010436_zpsjrzonw6k....
- October 6th, 2016, 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12872
Re: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
I've had a few good ones and heard quite a few better. You definitely win. Glad you came out of it with just the story and no injury. Haha - thanks. That being said, my dad (who spent 30 years working in zoos) had this interesting note: "I'd worry more about the bears than the leopard. Althoug...
- October 4th, 2016, 9:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12872
Re: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
Thanks, all of you have been really helpful!
- October 4th, 2016, 7:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12872
Re: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
Long talks with Yellowstone back country guides and rangers made me a believer of its effectiveness. http://www.backcountry.com/counter-assault-bear-deterrent-with-belt-holster-10.2oz?rr=t https://www.amazon.com/Udap-12HP-UDAP-Bear-Spray/dp/B001QGYH7Y http://www.bearspray.com/specification-chart/ b...
- October 4th, 2016, 6:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12872
Re: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
Great story, jonathan. One you can hold for years and years. I do wonder if you met Shere Khan instead, if it would have turned out differently? No tigers in this area. In the one place I've dealt with that's tiger-heavy, which happens to contain probably the most consistently man-eating tigers on ...
- October 3rd, 2016, 9:33 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: North American big cats
- Replies: 34
- Views: 80413
Re: North American big cats
Not a great shot? That's a fantastic cougar shot.
- October 3rd, 2016, 9:32 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12872
Re: About as exhilarating/terrifying as a herping story gets
Chaitanya wrote:Personally for me place where I herp on outskirts of my city, striped hyenas and leopards are threat and I have to watch out for those two animals constantly.
Do you herp alone at night in any bear/leopard territory? If not, what do you consider a minimum? What precautions do you take?
- September 30th, 2016, 4:26 am
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: A great Herpetoculture resource from a noted Dutchman
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16394
Re: A great Herpetoculture resource from a noted Dutchman
The technical "keeper" info is also pretty exceptional. It's pure Euro-style (big cages, naturalistic set-ups, natural feeding, close approximation of home-area temp & moisture cycles etc etc), not every American's cup of tea and certainly not the only way to succeed, but it accords c...
- September 30th, 2016, 4:18 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Amazing Predation by a Leopard Lizard
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5042
Re: Amazing Predation by a Leopard Lizard
I used to keep a good-sized adult leopard lizard and a good-sized adult desert iguana together in a large enclosure...I'm glad they never had these kind of issues with each other! Although when I tried to add my mojave fringe-toed lizard to the mix, the leopard lizard ran around with it like a dog w...
- September 29th, 2016, 6:13 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: North American big cats
- Replies: 34
- Views: 80413
Re: North American big cats
Cat sightings are few and far between for most people, I think. Mine are: Yeah, I can't imagine the luck of anyone who sees cats "a lot". (Though full-time field researchers doing their work at night probably get more chances than anyone.) Mine are: 4 bobcats. First was crossing a logging...
- September 29th, 2016, 5:55 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What do you think made this wound? (Latest Updates).
- Replies: 30
- Views: 45447
Re: What do you think made this wound?
Pigs can be pretty nasty to each other, all right. That's a weird looking wound, though. If it were done by another animal I'd expect it to be some kind of slash, but that just looks like a big, open and spreading sore. Maybe it started as a much smaller wound from daily life but then got infected?...
- September 29th, 2016, 5:46 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: The 10 pictures you most regret not getting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12207
Re: The 10 pictures you most regret not getting
Your leopard cat with kittens story is awesome. The saddle-backed tamarin is great too. I like how we had so many overlaps. Bobcat, small-clawed otter, stink badger, and multiple tropical porcupine species on both of our lists. Quite coincidentally, within 2 weeks of posting this list I have to comp...
- September 28th, 2016, 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: An interesting article on the place of science in society
- Replies: 68
- Views: 42140
Re: An interesting article on the place of science in societ
I just got far enough in the article to get to this quote: Consider the question “Are genetically modified crops more productive than conventional crops?” Some researchers prefer to answer this question by looking at field trials that allow variables like weather and soil type to be carefully contro...