Jesus Rodriguez Riverol
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MS student at UMass Amherst | Doris Duke Conservation Scholar | Herpetology |🐸🇨🇺(he/el)
Aren’t eastern painted turtles beautiful???
9 months ago
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A couple of turtle photos for
#wildturtleweek
11 months ago
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The Orianne Society
11 months ago
Meet one of the South’s most important landlords: the Gopher Tortoise. These humble reptiles dig deep burrows that support over 350 other species — from frogs to snakes to insects. But as longleaf pine habitat disappears, so does the tortoise… and everything that depends on it.
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Started field work for my MS and I’ve been having a blast!
about 1 year ago
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Happy New Year everyone! Here’s a Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri) found in South GA.
over 1 year ago
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Mike Pingleton
over 1 year ago
No locality posting this week, as I will be traveling. Here's a Mishana Poison Frog (Ranitomeya amazonica) from NE Peru. They are small as frogs go, and this adult comfortably on my thumbnail :)
#herps
#frogs
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Evan Grimes, M.S.
over 1 year ago
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with this pretty red and green scene! Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) from northern Georgia this fall
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Alt National Park Service
over 1 year ago
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Seems like there’s a theme this week, another gorgeous diamondback found on a rather successful survey. This gorgeous individual seemed unbothered by our presence and was left alone after some brief photos.
#herps
over 1 year ago
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Another eastern diamondback rattlesnake found by one of our volunteers!
#herps
over 1 year ago
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Mikaeylah Davidson
over 1 year ago
It’s
#frogfriday
so bringing back my absolute favourite facts about corroboree frogs… and it’s that they wiggle their toes to attract their food! 🤤🦗🐸
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plesnercph🇩🇰
over 1 year ago
🐸Green and black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus). At 4.2cm (1.7") females are slightly larger than males. Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Males fight for territories during mating season. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷 by Ivan Rojas on Pexels.
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Mike Pingleton
over 1 year ago
I posted this on John Scalzi's feed earlier so I should post it here as well. My last book, "The Field Herping Guide: Finding Amphibians and Reptiles in the Wild" was published in 2019 (you can skip the Bazillionaire middle man and order directly from the press)
ugapress.org/book/9780820...
#books
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The Field Herping Guide
Herping is the observation of amphibians and reptiles for recreation or for the production of citizen science—the cold-blooded equivalent of birding. The F...
https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354583/the-field-herping-guide/
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Simon Maddock
over 1 year ago
We are looking for a PhD student to work on "Faunal diversity dynamics of the Seychelles using environmental DNA". Your primary supervisors would be David Gower (NHM, London) and Julia Day (UCL). For more details of the project and funding see
trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau...
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Mike Pingleton
over 1 year ago
Imma make this Pitcher Plant day - Flask Pitchers (Nepenthes ampullaria) from SW Borneo. Other pitcher plants are carnivores, eating the remains of insects trapped inside, but N. ampullaria is a detritivore - its open top collects falling leaf litter & other organics. 🌿🌱#NaturePhotography 1/2 🧵
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Ornate chorus frogs (Pseudacris ornata) are some of the prettiest anurans in the southeastern United States. They come in gray, green, and reddish- brown color phases and gather to breed during the winter months.
over 1 year ago
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Mike Pingleton
over 1 year ago
A juvenile Toad-head Turtle (Mesoclemmys nasuta) from NE Peru back in January. These are pleurodires, or side-neck turtles - their head tucks to either side under the shell. A different group from cryptodires, which pull their head and neck straight back under the shell.
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over 1 year ago
A beautiful desert skink (Liopholis inornata) from far north South Australia.
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It’s always a good day when you get to see the king of all rattlesnakes, the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus).
over 1 year ago
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No snakes on our surveys today, but we flipped this little corn snake under some tin on the way home!
over 1 year ago
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On today’s survey, what I thought for a second was a charred stick turned out to be a beautiful Eastern hognose snake!!
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
An adult Yellow-spotted Night Lizard (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum) from NW Costa Rica. Interesting lizards in many ways - for one thing they are live-bearers rather than egg-layers, and some populations are female-only (parthenogenic), including those in Costa Rica.
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