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  • Herp Trip Time Machine, Hot Stove Herping

    Peninsular Thailand, Part 2

    February 5, 2026 / No Comments

    After a good night’s sleep and a good breakfast, we were ready to get back at it. From here on out, our days had a repeatable pattern – drive a…

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  • Herp Trip Time Machine, Hot Stove Herping

    Peninsular Thailand, Part 1

    February 3, 2026 / 2 Comments

    While in Peru back in January of 2023, I was having a conversation with Pete Mooney about possible herp trip collaborations. Pete and I have herped together in a number…

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  • Creature Featurettes, Pod Blog

    Kukri Snakes (Oligodon)

    January 11, 2026 / 2 Comments

    Here’s another ‘pod blog’, providing supplemental material for Episode 124: Herp Science Sunday with Justin Lee. In this episode of HSS, Dr. Alex Krohn and I had a conversation with…

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  • Creature Featurettes, Herp Trip Time Machine

    Chubby Little Frog, Skinny Little Window

    October 18, 2025 / 2 Comments

    It was the second day of March back in 2008, and a warm front was roaring up out of the south, bringing scudding clouds and rain. Up to that point,…

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  • Field Herping

    A Nocturnal Excursion with Riparian Entertainments

    September 28, 2025 / 4 Comments

    Our expedition clients have spent the last three nights hiking the trails around the field station here in the Peruvian rainforest. Those nights have been very productive, in terms of…

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  • Pod Blog

    Pine Snakes and Cranberry Crotes

    September 18, 2025 / No Comments

    This past June I drove out to New Jersey with one firm goal in mind – record an interview with Robert Zappalorti, the founder and executive director of Herpetological Associates,…

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  • Pod Blog

    Always Get The Full Coverage

    September 11, 2025 / 2 Comments

    A new feature of this blogspace are ‘pod blogs’, which support and supplement some of the episodes of my herp podcast, and this is the first. In Episode 114: Always…

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  • Creature Featurettes

    Yard Garters

    August 27, 2025 / 6 Comments

    A few weeks after we moved into our home in June of 2000, there was a tremendous rainstorm that flooded the streets and left standing water everywhere. Walking out the…

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  • Field Herping

    Once more, unto the breach…

    August 27, 2025 / 6 Comments

    …”dear friends, once more…” I haven’t posted here since the second week of January in 2022, which was also the week I received my first Covid vaccination. You would think…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    The Fell Swoop Loop, Part 2

    January 11, 2022 / 2 Comments

    It’s a bit of a drive but we made from the ocean to the desert in time to get in some road-cruising after dark. There’s one quiet road that I…

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By Mike Pingleton

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