only snake i saw
and about 700 sagebrush lizards
oh and i was about 10 feet away from this
Big Bear
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I like those black helleri. 10 feet? Please.
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Nice, those black helleri are really cool looking. Looks like one I saw at 7k feet in the San Gabes.
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I really love those cerb-esque SoPacs. Keep them coming.
I won't argue that you were ten feet away from that bear, but I will raise you an angry sow with two cubs.
We were close enough to this angry mama that a few of us actually got drooled on while she was doing her huffing and puffing. The cubs were too high in the tree to get photos, but I'm still pretty stoked that I was finally able to get a decent shot of a bear. Ten feet or not, close enough to get photos like mine or yours is still much closer than most people will ever get to a wild bear.
I won't argue that you were ten feet away from that bear, but I will raise you an angry sow with two cubs.
We were close enough to this angry mama that a few of us actually got drooled on while she was doing her huffing and puffing. The cubs were too high in the tree to get photos, but I'm still pretty stoked that I was finally able to get a decent shot of a bear. Ten feet or not, close enough to get photos like mine or yours is still much closer than most people will ever get to a wild bear.
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well i was waling in a meadow and i was coming up the hill back to our camp and the bear just ran right in front of us in a thicket and i was getting pictures and my friend was scared so we just left italone and he called my dad to bring the pistol because the bear was about to attack i just told him to stop being a little and so we walked up to the camp and then my brother and his friend came down the hill and they wanted to see a bear so i decided to show them and i was walking and right around the corner the bear was right there.
the meadow
the thicket
the bear wasnt afraid of us he even layed down and ignored us he was looking up and all around
habitat
the meadow
the thicket
the bear wasnt afraid of us he even layed down and ignored us he was looking up and all around
habitat
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Those are really dark, Fundad.
Here's mine.
And here's a bear I was about ten feet from up in the San Gabes near a picnic area. He ran up this tree when I was coming down the road.
Here's mine.
And here's a bear I was about ten feet from up in the San Gabes near a picnic area. He ran up this tree when I was coming down the road.
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Thats a nice bear does anyone know why the helleri get dark in the mountains? is it genetic? like melanism?
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I'm not sure why. It would be cool if they were restricted to high elevations, but they are not. Here's one I found about 5 miles from where you live, and it wasn't up in the Santa Anas.
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They aren't really helleri. Those are Timber rattlers. Just ask any hunter or fisherman that sees them...
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"Why them's Timber rattlers".
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Timber rattler sounds better than Southern Pacific rattler. Also they found a bear cub in De Luz not that long ago. They gave it to the zoo or something. So Bears arent limited to the mountains like dark Helleri
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Often hi-ele herps are very dark (and look pure black) in the morning, as black absorbs sunlight. If you saw the same herp fully warmed up, and in the shade... it's pattern/colors would be much more evident.
So... being a very dark herp, in a typically cool hi-ele habitat, provides a better chance of that herp thriving... and successfully reproducing... and passing on it's 'dark genes'... it's called selective adaptation...
Remember when Todd posted that REALLY blue fence, I noosed at Tejon (for pics... it was released) ? It looked pure black when I noosed it... turned 'blue' in the bag... jim
So... being a very dark herp, in a typically cool hi-ele habitat, provides a better chance of that herp thriving... and successfully reproducing... and passing on it's 'dark genes'... it's called selective adaptation...
Remember when Todd posted that REALLY blue fence, I noosed at Tejon (for pics... it was released) ? It looked pure black when I noosed it... turned 'blue' in the bag... jim
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Another really cool thing about high elevation helleri, is they are completely tame.
Edit: Video removed of a man free handling a hot, but was later bit and sent to the hospital for his practices.
Edit: Video removed of a man free handling a hot, but was later bit and sent to the hospital for his practices.
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Looks like something i would do....
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Not the most stupid thing I've ever seen, but it's pretty close.Ross Padilla wrote:Another really cool thing about high elevation helleri, is they are completely tame.
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that video should never get posted, here. This is not u-tube, where stupidity rules. Unless of course... you follow it with the following vid/story, where he DOES get tagged...
But again... we don't generally allow 'free-handling hots' videos, on our forum. jim
But again... we don't generally allow 'free-handling hots' videos, on our forum. jim
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Haven't been in this hobby that long, so yes, that is the STUPIDEST thing I've ever seen.
Repaphin cool Big Bear pics. The black helli was cool. Bears horrify and fascinate me at the same time. Kinda like Tarantula Hawks. Happy herping.
reako45
Repaphin cool Big Bear pics. The black helli was cool. Bears horrify and fascinate me at the same time. Kinda like Tarantula Hawks. Happy herping.
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I'm wondering if this is a staged venomoid video....
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Doubt it lol. This is the same guy several months later. :/frodaman wrote:I'm wondering if this is a staged venomoid video....
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Thanks it was about 7,500 in elevationand it looked like prime Zonata habitat just no zonata
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How's that?hellihooks wrote:that video should never get posted, here. This is not u-tube, where stupidity rules. Unless of course... you follow it with the following vid/story, where he DOES get tagged...
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Thanks for that. I remember this now. I think I saw it posted on FHF a long time ago or a while back.michael68 wrote:Doubt it lol. This is the same guy several months later. :/frodaman wrote:I'm wondering if this is a staged venomoid video....
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Here's a FEW berdoo helli's...
Alllllll though... "one of these snakes, is not like the others...
one of these snakes just doesn't belong"
Which one, and what is it? jim
You got lucky Ross... ALMOST made me hafta use 'The HOOK'...
Alllllll though... "one of these snakes, is not like the others...
one of these snakes just doesn't belong"
Which one, and what is it? jim
You got lucky Ross... ALMOST made me hafta use 'The HOOK'...
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