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    Getting Around To The ‘Glades

    September 30, 2016 / 5 Comments

    There’s not much trouble with this herping life, except for the Too-Many-Too-Much problem: too many places to visit, too much to see, and too much to cram into a relatively…

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  • Creature Featurettes, Field Herping

    Night of the Black Caiman

    August 6, 2016 / 2 Comments

    The Madre Selva field station is on the banks of the Rio Orosa, and if you go out on that river at night, you can find Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus)…

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  • Creature Featurettes, Field Herping

    Joining the Cobra Club

    June 23, 2016 / No Comments

    ‘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,…

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  • Field Herping

    Badlands, Bison and Bullsnakes

    June 5, 2016 / 10 Comments

    “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…

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  • Field Herping

    Snoring Thunder 2016

    April 3, 2016 / 2 Comments

    The new herping season unfolds and whatever may happen, I know that at some point I will be standing in chilly water, listening to the peeps, whistles, trills, clicks, clacks,…

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  • Creature Featurettes, Field Herping

    The Water Monitors of Bangkok

    March 9, 2016 / 3 Comments

    “When you go, check out the city parks – those are the best places to see water monitors.” I’ve heard this advice from several sources, and since we had a…

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  • Creature Featurettes, Field Herping

    A New Old Tortoise

    February 11, 2016 / 3 Comments

    My buddy Justin posted a link to a paper on Facebook yesterday:  “The desert tortoise trichotomy: Mexico hosts a third, new sister-species of tortoise in the Gopherus morafkai – G.…

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  • OPBs

    These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

    January 26, 2016 / No Comments

    Andrew Durso’s Life Is Short, But Snakes Are Long is one of my favorite herp blogs.  In his latest installment, Andrew talks about books, bushmasters, and Ditmars – a few…

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  • Creature Featurettes

    Who Made The Queen Snake Queen?

    January 18, 2016 / 17 Comments

    I ask that question from time to time. “Uh, because it’s Regina?” I never liked that answer.  If ‘Queen Snake’ springs from Regina, the name of its genus,  then where does Regina…

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  • Field Herping

    EOY Highlight Reels

    December 31, 2015 / 4 Comments

    The end of the year traditionally requires an accounting of said year – and a very good year it was!  I added 41 notches to my life list, got out…

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