Biology

Reptile Super Show!

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Now if you live in San Diego and have somehow managed to avoid seeing the billboards that have been around the county, we are speaking of the Reptile Super Show happening on June 18-19th at the San Diego Concourse Civic Center. Not only is this show larger than the ‘famous’ Daytona Show, but there is a special feature this year: some of the top people in the industry will be sharing their knowledge about reptiles, amphibians, breeding, and a lot more, during the Reptile Talks on June 17th.

Field Herping | A Night in the Anza Borrego

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Within our first hour we saw approximately 4 DOR species in various numbers. We were quickly becoming convinced all that we would see would be the inevitable DOR snake or lizard. We paused shortly after entering the area known as Scissors crossing at some rock outcroppings hoping to find the desert rosy boa Lichanura trivirgata gracia while we didn’t find those, we did come across one of their prey items; the desert kangaroo rat Dipodomys deserti we couldn’t photograph the little rodent peering up at me through a crack in the decomposing granite boulder where it was hiding because our photographer left the camera in the car! I assure you it was an oh isn’t that cute moment, all I could see were two large somewhat bulging black eyes peering up at me begging me not to eat the body they were attached to.