bushmanbilly
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Post by bushmanbilly on Oct 3, 2013 0:04:53 GMT -5
You folks sure have some funky lookin reptiles in your parts. Ours are boring in compare. I would like to put "like" on every post but it would take to long. Like
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Post by Pat on Oct 3, 2013 0:09:04 GMT -5
Scott, I think they were all purple, or purple with some white. I don't recall the gold belly. We don't see them often, but I've always thought they looked sweet.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 10:50:19 GMT -5
Pat, they look sweet...i wonder if they taste sweet?
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Post by Pat on Oct 3, 2013 11:22:46 GMT -5
jakesrocks Ah, good photo showing little eyeballs! Thanks! Look like acrylic tubes with eyeballs --- not something to eat. There's something for everyone! @shotgunner good advice! I wouldn't hold onto anything that wanted its freedom. Results could bleed! jamesp Sweet? I'll never know! YOU let me know : ) As for the bryozoan shake, let me know how that goes, too... I don't like the idea of sewer monsters in my blender. Maybe if we called them Fluffies or some such name, I wouldn't object so much.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 13:35:54 GMT -5
Pat, you could captivate 100 men. We are lucky that come out to play w/us.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 13:46:31 GMT -5
Pat, you could captivate 100 men. We are lucky that come out to play w/us. Indeed, we are lucky. PatMaybe it's the Arboreal Salamander (Aneides lugubris)?? Don't get bit!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 13:50:21 GMT -5
That has got to be photoshopped
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Post by Pat on Oct 3, 2013 14:05:00 GMT -5
Gentlemen, jamesp @shotgunner thank you @shotgunner that could be the spotted one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 14:06:00 GMT -5
nope Found hereHaving been victim to that exact bite from that exact species, I can personally attest to the teeth. My license plate used to read ANEIDES my favorite Cali Sali.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 14:08:45 GMT -5
Gentlemen, jamesp @shotgunner thank you @shotgunner that could be the spotted one. Y/W That salamander in particular is found along rocky streams and in moist rocky forested areas. I found one whose head was a full 2" wide! HA! I want the albino one!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 14:17:03 GMT -5
It's a devilmander.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 14:30:20 GMT -5
Jean - I am hand on cheek, mouth wide open dumb struck. You having that book!!!!!!!! I am amazed that anyone has that book. They printed so few of them (did not sell well) that my return for my $1500 cost was $4.37. lol
Scott - I photographed that particular snake at the Houston Zoo. All the photos in the book were photographed in Houston and Fort Worth. All but a few were photographed through glass. I set up my Pentax 645 with a flash on each side and I put the lens up against the glass. I have a long story that I will cut short about one snake we tried to photograph on some leaves on a table. They got it all settled under a box so we could photograph it when he lifted the box. I was at the end of the table backed up against some kind of waist high carton. He raised the box and the snake instantly came off my end of the table. Have you ever tried to climb a vertical surface with your butt cheeks? It can not be done but my butt cheeks tried. It was another highly poisonous viper. We called it a day after that. The adrenalin rush let down after almost made me pass out. I do not have a problem with snakes close to me but not that close. I love the lizards, fat frogs and salamanders but the only reason I do not kill snakes is because they take care of a lot of rodents. Jim
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 3, 2013 15:11:36 GMT -5
nope Found hereHaving been victim to that exact bite from that exact species, I can personally attest to the teeth. My license plate used to read ANEIDES my favorite Cali Sali. Dang, Scott! Definitely not something I'd care to be bit by. Looks like the teeth on the "lizardfish" down in San Diego Bay. And I always thought sallymanders were such cuddly and innocuous little beasties!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 15:21:11 GMT -5
I love the way the sun glistens off the teeth. jean You guys have Arboreals too. Just go to any stream in a march afternoon and look in the cracks in the rocks on shore. It's not hard to find fifty once you find one.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 3, 2013 15:31:32 GMT -5
Had I known they were equipped with chompers like that, I would not have been looking for them. I had enough snakes at home at the time, I didn't need to go out in the field to find something to bite me. Scott, I remember looking for them once up in Sycamore Canyon (along Hwy 67 between Lakeside and Ramona). An oak forest, lots of leaf litter on the ground. We didn't find any. Also looked along hwy 94, SE of San Diego. Streambed, no arboreals. We then drove up to the mountains, there was a little snow on the ground in protected areas at that elevation. No arboreals there, but did find a couple Ensatina eschscholtzi (name edited, had it wrong) under some bark. I've also got a couple out of focus pics taken of some up at Bass Lake, NE of Fresno. Here's the better pic
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 16:07:09 GMT -5
I have never seen an ensatina of that color. This page says they are "intergrades/hybrids"@wampidy I used to own a copy of that book too. Everybody did. The reptile community was not very large then. They should reprint today. They will sell 10X as many. Way bigger community now. Pentax645 I am impressed!
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Post by grayfingers on Oct 3, 2013 16:40:22 GMT -5
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 3, 2013 16:47:48 GMT -5
Wow, cool salamander section too. I love Ensatina as there are so many color variations. I caught one in the high Sierra one time tht was incredible.
When I was n college my Uncle had a ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We we discussing the Giant Salamander ( Dicamptodon) in class with Dr. McGinnis and I mentioned they were common in the creek by my uncle's ranch. Sam says, they don't occur there. So I drove down and caught him one about a foot long. Now those boogers have huge teeth! While there I picked up a couple of big larval forms for a buddy. he put them in his fish tank. Bad mistake, those rascals chomped up every critter in the tank in a couple of days *L*.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 16:50:36 GMT -5
Spectacular video. The green viper is stellar. Did not know there is a pro photographer amongst the ranks. Nice work Jim.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 16:53:14 GMT -5
I pulled my trout in on a stringer in N Georgia and the hellbender that was chewing on them weighed more that a half dozen trout.
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