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The Cognitive Reptile

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Looking into the reptile mind to discover whether or not we are dealing with a thinking creature or one that just responds to external stimuli.

Conscious Keeper Introduction

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I met Chris Law through the social networks and invited him to do an interview in the Reptile Living Room regarding Crocodilians after exchanging ideas for a while which you can listen to here Chris Law of Crocodopolis. After the interview we stayed in touch and continued to exchange ideas etc and after an incident […]

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.