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Photo is of a northern water snake, so that record is out.

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The original thread was rudely derailed by unrelated trolling and my being in a bad headspace falling into the foolishness of continuing it...so going to try once to restart and maintain what it was supposed to be about.... Season started in Arizona, with a bit of a slow first day but the first snak...

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Outolandish hybrid BS is still outlandish BS no matter how many times you try repeating it...

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A year in review; it's not all herps, but a lot of it was:

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This might be the last vid from this year, wildlife-wise...unless some miracle permits a tropical trip

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Planning ahead in hopes that I can afford it when the time comes, does anyone have experience/tips to share concerning herping in Oklahoma, starting with if late April or any time through May is an okay time to look around (or if the tornadoes are just too frequent)? If things fall in place I'd like...

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The final evening in AZ:

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The best part of the Arizona trip IMO:

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Arizona day 2, part 1 (it was a very busy day):

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Did not get any assistance from here, unfortunately, but found someone else who helped share some info to make a recent, very short AZ trip a success. Day 1, arrival:

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Adding on: would it be worth it to try and get a recreational permit for Trust Lands, or are there enough generally accessible public areas that tht would be a moot point?

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To be blunt, if you can't wrap your head around the simple fact that the animals you're talking about hybridizing are incompatible either genetically or ecologically, or the fact that convergent evolution, homologous traits, or natural variation are things that exist, you're even less qualified (and...

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Might be a narrow window to ask, but in a few days (coming weekend) I'll be taking a short family trip down to the east side of Phoenix AZ. I know monsoon season is already probably starting to taper off, and 2-3 nights isn't a lot to really get out and look for things, but might anyone have suggest...

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There is even less chance of a Nerodia x Thamnophis hybrid occurring, especially in the wild, than there is a longnose crossing with a kingsnake (ie. zero chance because it's not happening with the latter either); Lampropeltini clade diverged some 3-8 million years ago (nearly all the genera therein...

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A good day in NoCO:

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Never mind...whatever the issue was it seems to have auto-resolved itself finally after a week...don't know if the whole thread can be deleted but it's obsolete now.

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Putting this here in since not sure where else to do so…does anyone else use Google Chrome to access the forum? It’s currently claiming the entire forum system doesn’t exist (404 error, invalid url etc.) so can’t be accessed. Main forum page (fieldherpforum.com) also just pops up with a white page t...

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Final Day in New Mexico; it started strong:

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Day 5: the snakes finally started revealing themselves...

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Day 4 in New Mexico, the far southwest corner. Apparently, this was to be the day of toads...

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Video number 2 from New Mexico; this one (and the ones to come) each managed to come from just one day:

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The first video from my trip to New Mexico a couple weeks ago; apparently I arrived slightly too early, as rains messed up a lot of plans (or lack thereof earlier on did too...), but we still found some stuff:

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A short outing with the local PARC chapter:

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A video from more locally for me...and with a reminder, watch where you put your rocks...

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Final day in Kansas:

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Kansas Day 3 (which we spent mostly in Oklahoma instead). Some of the most brightly colored box turtles I have ever seen...

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Day 2 of the Kansas trip is now up; 3 lifer snakes, 1 lizard, 1 frog, and a whole lot of species that haven't ever been on the channel yet.

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Between the options of sayi and deserticola, by and away this matches sayi far more. However locality would be rather important as sayi intergrades in more than one place with deserticola, and in some broad regions with affinis (which tends to resemble sayi a lot more than deserticola does).

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Biggest trip I've taken thus far, day 1:

And thumbnail is showing up in preview for me, if it doesn't show up here the video is active on the Carlton Carnivores channel on YouTube.

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When herping doesn't work out, there's other wildlife to be found no matter where you are.

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Shows up fine as a thumbnail vid for me...problem's probably on your end as it's doing what it's supposed to far as I can see.

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Year's already begun for me, earlier than ever (we still expect snow and frosts for a few weeks to come normally), so beginning the wildlife videos already. The description on YouTube makes note of the ID flub on one of the animals here but for anyone who doesn't head there to watch: what I thought ...

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Lizards are plenty interesting in their own right when one looks past them just being "that thing crawling on the nearest wall." Especially once one learns to appreciate even the diversity of the ubiquitous anoles and amievas. The second part is actually up just tonight, admittedly the lat...

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Didn't find everything I wanted to find, but hey, when does that happen ever? Part one is a doozy in terms of length, but full of animals:

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A little over a month before there is an intended plan to end up on several islands of the southern Caribbean, including but not necessarily limited to: Barbados, Martinique, St. Lucia, the Virgin Islands, etc. I have no idea how long I'll actually have on each island, but anywhere I can I want a ch...

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So my post was quoted with a picture of known ball hybrids (and I'm familiar with most that have been made or attempted so far, part of several hybrid groups because the impact on pattern structure etc. intrigues me)...but glossed over the "intermixed" part that should be emphasized. Thos...

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So my post was quoted with a picture of known ball hybrids (and I'm familiar with most that have been made or attempted so far, part of several hybrid groups because the impact on pattern structure etc. intrigues me)...but glossed over the "intermixed" part that should be emphasized. Those...

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In that case, no it's not in the genes themselves. It's in the epigenetic regulators, the environment altering enzymatic ability to turn on and off controls for pigments and impacting methylation patterns that lock and unlock the ability to read genes. If it were genetic alteration the offspring of ...

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Beyond wishful thinking, there's no signals of hybridization here, and "lateral fading" in milks is definitely not automatically some old trait passed down from longnoses. Pics are shared fairly frequently from the region where I live of milks that have lighter sides than dorsal patterning...

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Having only found one in the wild so far...I need to bump up my numbers clearly. Stuck staring at that one piebald(? not really the right term but not sure what fits) one from western Kansas; that has got to be the coolest milk I've ever seen a photo of, and I'm dying now to try and figure out what ...

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Thanks to both; I'll admit I manage tones better in person and through videos than I do in online methods (so if I come off sounding excessively blunt, touchy, etc. in writing here, I can't process written conversation as well as verbal so I end up going straight to points more than I should) so I'm...

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After the first SE CO trip, stuck around home to make a couple more short vids:

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Thus far most of my videos have been moderately short productions; two forays to southeastern Colorado for a full weekend required longer documentation however. This was the first:

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Not the longest vid I've made so far, but this trip was perhaps my most exciting personally so far; after looking for years, I finally located a snake I've been wanting to see desperately:

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My first reptile video from this year, a couple favored locations from the nearby foothills:

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This past winter was spent making videos about the animals and plants at home (will probably be doing the same this winter since herping around here is kind of impossible in the snow), and then with spring, started out with finding frogs:

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