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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.

Reptile Evolution, The Langkawi bent-toed gecko

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Authored by Tom Williams Reptile Evolution Evolution has always captured my imagination, especially in reptiles which first appeared on Earth over 300,000,000 years ago. A programme recently aired in the UK called “The Decades Top 10 New Species” depicted 10 new species of animal that have been discovered this decade. Including the Langkawi bent-toed gecko. This […]

I Don’t do Fluffy: Criticism & Help with Reptiles

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Now, I thought the above answer was satisfactory and answered the questions succinctly and helped more than enough. Obviously I was mistaken for this is the response I received: