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mice here! ^-^

roseofrodents

Rodentblr here! ^^

followthebluebell

i mostly post cats punctuated with reptile pictures

puppyboops

Very much an animal blog in general.

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sneks

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Hey folks

So it’s been awhile. 2016 sucked. Loss of family. Loss of pets. Just recently lost one. I just haven’t really had the energy to be on this blog too. I am hoping to get back to it some day but I’ve just gotta get the energy back.

Hey folks

So yeah, I’ve been gone a while. Work/family/medical issues and yeah. No idea if or when I’ll be returning. It got a bit chaotic keeping up with this for a while but I’ll start trying to remember to get some stuff in the queue when I can. I’d like to try to get back to Showoff Saturday but I can’t guarantee I can do it this weekend. We’ll see

So I’m going to try to do Showoff Satuday tomorrow. I’m just getting over a bug and my energy hasn’t been great as of late because of it. This may also result in the queue dropping off a bit. I’ll do what I can.

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Tiger-striped Leaf Frog (Phyllomedusa tomopterna) by Lucas M. Bustamante-Enríquez on Flickr.

#frogs

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@the sweet anon

Here’s some fat Joss pics for your kind words about my snakes! :3 Posting as its own post though so you can see the pics fullsize.

Bothrochilus albertisii

#snakes

missmariemariana

Photos don’t do them justice <3

#snakes

kaijutegu

Field school amphibians! We caught the tadpoles during stream seine net sessions. Don’t worry, we put them back right away. The toad’s a… western spadefoot, I believe, and then the big tadpoles and biggest frog are all American bullfrogs. The last little guy is some kind of chorus frog maybe, and I can’t remember what the small frog in the second row is. I have notes somewhere, but not on this laptop.

#frogs

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The Rattlesnake Story

Part of the zooarchaeology field school I went to back in 2012 was a camping trip around parts of California and Nevada and Oregon, at one point. It was a lot of sleeping rough and there wasn’t much in the way of amenities… which meant a lot of peeing behind cacti and sagebrush bushes. We’d camp for a night or two, do a bit of field research, tour local archaeological sites… it was pretty cool. Anyways, we’d been on the road for a very long time and it was the last leg of the trip. We were really excited because we were going to be sleeping at a shelter (we all slept outside anyways, it was really stuffy in there) and more importantly, that shelter had an outhouse.

I put up a picture of the creek near the shelter (but not near the outhouse) because it was really pretty. Gorgeous place to camp. But there was an outhouse, the first we’d seen in a week.

As the truck I was in pulled up past the gate, one of the girls riding in the truck was bouncing in her seat. She’d been avoiding nature’s call for quite a while because she was really, really tired of peeing behind cacti. As soon as the truck stopped, she sprang out of there and sprinted for the the outhouse.

A few seconds later, she was quietly walking out of it. She comes back over to the truck and says “there’s a rattlesnake in there.” Now, we’d seen some baby timber rattlesnakes back at the field school’s main facility, but this was no baby. This was a big, beautiful, adult Great Basin rattlesnake, and it had been pretty happy in that outhouse. But it’s not always the best idea to have rattlers around where a bunch of people and dogs will be (we had a couple dogs join us at this campsite), so the head instructor got the long-handled net and a snake hook and went into the outhouse.

The snake didn’t much seem to care- once he was removed from the outhouse, we took him a good ways away near some bushes where we thought there’d be good hiding places for him. The instructor tipped him out of the net and at first he just curled up, a bit unsure of what to make of everything.