Monthly Archive: June 2016

Joining the Cobra Club

Mike Pingleton June 23, 2016 0 Creature Featurettes, Field Herping, Life Listicles Cobras, Naja kaouthia, TonTan Travel

‘I am Nag,’ said the cobra; ‘look, and be afraid!’….But at the bottom of his cold heart, he was afraid. -Kipling It was our last full herping day in Thailand, and so far all of our venomous snakes had been pit vipers (Trimeresurus vogeli), at rest on tree branches over…
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Badlands, Bison and Bullsnakes

Mike Pingleton June 5, 2016 10 Field Herping Badlands, Bison, Bullsnakes, Olympia Marble

“There ain’t much between the Pole and South Dakota, and barb wire won’t stop the wind…” So goes a pretty good song by James McMurtry, but I beg to differ with him – there’s a whole bunch of North Dakota in the way, to say nothing of Manitoba. I was…
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