The Official Snake and other Reptiles and Amphibians Thread

Caught this little guy in the back yard last year

 

Well, the lizards and snakes are out & about down here. And the spring peepers are loud enough to keep you up at night.

 

I've let my turtles go several times, they always come back



Brown Chicken Brown Cow

 

I used to catch garter snakes, box turtles, newts, bullfrogs, and toads growing-up in NJ. I never had the balls to catch a snapping turtle, though. Whenever I travel, in and out of the US, I freak-out when I see other types of exotic reptiles and I usually harass them.

 

Is that a rough green snake, Seldom? I used to see those in my yard, before they built stupid housing development (aka McMansions for Marines) in back of me. Not as many snakes now.

Had a pygmy rattler in the yard once, too. I was sitting in a lawn chair, and kept hearing a noise like an insect would make, turned out to be this tiny rattlesnake right behind me.

 

Speaking of amphibians, I just went out to the porch to water plants, and I found this tiny little frog floating in the watering can. I thought it was dead at first but it's alive. I hope the poor little guy recovers.

 

this is my cousins iguana.i don't know how long these things live but this guy been around for a long time.hes got to be over 4 ft long by now

 

As a kid in Florida, I always loved taking pics

 

From Florida last week...these guys were all over the place in the Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge

 

Oh man, those were my BB gun targets as a kid.

 

in '95 we were in the Osa in CR. We dropped El 'Cid at day break and drove over the mountain to Carate. on the way, there was a Fer du Lance moving down the "road a a good clip. I rolled down the window to take a pic, and I swear the viper looked over at me and tried to scoot up the side to jump in and get me. We made it safely to Carate, and had a great time. 5 hours later we went to the end of the road at the edge of the Corcovado reserve. There was a small store there. Inside they had carcases, heads feet and claws of every kinda critter around hanging from the ceiling. I was talking to the tico owner and he said they had just caught a 12' python and took it out back. I went there to look. I scraggly gringo came up and asked what I was doing. I told him why I was there. He told me I shouldn't be fuggin with those thing. I said I would never harm any animal. And in fact saw the fer du lance. He asked me if I killed it. I told him no. He said I should have because the week before, his friend got bit, so they cut off his foot, then his leg, then he died. Then he started weeping uncontrollably. I wanted to console him but the only thing running thru my mind was where they hung those items.

By the way, I heard drinking Guaro is a remedy for viper bites.

 

id love to see a croc in person.i feel they are the last of the dinosaurs,and they live a long time too.

 

Cep, growing up in FL, we did some crazy crap. I remember fishing one time catching bluegill, we were hitting them on the ground to stun them and then throwing them out to about a 7 foot gator feeding it. It was about 6 feet out in the lake. And we were always swimming in the lakes.