I'm going to annoy people who hate pics of kids now. Be warned.
Before this summer, my son got of course already some essential species.
fire salamander Salamandra salamandra & Bas (1yr)
smooth snake Coronella austriaca and Bas (2yr)
admiring a Plethodon yonahlossee, I believe, last year, when he was 3.
same trip, Crotalus horridus
Lampropeltis triangulum
Hellbender!
gator!
After a successful but too short trip to see Vipera walser (http://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/index.php?id=80), I spent the summer in my home country. Not as exciting as touring the eastern US (http://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/index.php?id=79), but at least my 4 year old hero did some serious lifelisting.
Slow worms Anguis fragilis are always fun. Bike had to hit the ground fast, because those boards needed to be flipped.
Yellow-bellied toad Bombina variegata. The good thing about a kid of his age, is that he forgot he already saw this one two years ago, so fresh and wild enthusiasm again!
A baby natterjack Epidalea calamita.
Catching tree frogs should be a mandatory thing at school - the perfect poster frog to win a kid's (and people's) heart!
Smelly snake - grass snake Natrix natrix
Never drop the herp theme, even when it's cold and rainy!
Any other sentimental herper parents around here? Let's see those happy herper kids!
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Good times! But they go by too fast. My son is in college now... Here's a few:
Catching tadpoles.
Getting chewed out by a Milksnake.
Gator.
Spotted Salamander eggs.
He found our first Ohio Rough Green!
Wrangling a Brown Watersnake.
Catching tadpoles.
Getting chewed out by a Milksnake.
Gator.
Spotted Salamander eggs.
He found our first Ohio Rough Green!
Wrangling a Brown Watersnake.
Re: herpetological parenting
Definitely thought this thread was going to be about parental behaviors in herps. Parental behavior in herpers is good too.
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Great stuff !!!!
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Great! You can obviously never force these things, but I sure hope my son keeps it up for years to come too...
That would be "herp parenting"Antonsrkn wrote:Definitely thought this thread was going to be about parental behaviors in herps.
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nice to get the kids started on herps young! they pick so much up from how their parents approach herps and the rest of the natural world. Sometimes out in the metroparks or visiting the zoo I overhear parents telling their kids about how gross / scary / bad certain animals are. Just sad.