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chameleons have such cute hands

look they’re like little mittens

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FUN SCIENCE FACT: did you know that one legit way (like there are actually published papers that reference this method) to sex a snapping turtle is to dance it back and forth like so? For reasons unknown it inspires the males of the species to let everything hang out, as it were. And, as a bonus, it amuses us scientists, which is nice when you are dealing with angry, aggressive animals with sharp claws, dangerous mouths that have a ridiculous amount of reach, and that REEK and are covered in leeches.

Fieldwork is awesome. Herpetology is awesome.

(also, white-eagle I hope dancing angry turtles can cheer you up and distract you from broken ankles and itchy casts for a few seconds at least!)

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heyitscaspian

Suspicious chubby dragon. Found on r/delightfullychubby

ryulongd

is that a fucking mantis on its head

thebabyanimals

alltailnolegs

Pardon the iphone shots.

So this girl came in, advertised as a healthy 2yr-LTC female janseni. She arrived completely filthy with mites and immediately do not pass go do not collect two hundred dollars went out back for me to soap and hose bathe her off.

I think she might also have a yeast infection, but unsure if it’s that or just irritated crusty skin from the infestation.

In any case, I’m hoping to clean her up as well as possible, and eventually put her with Fenris.

and then huge quarantine lockdown procedures happened on myself, Cinna, the cats, outside where I bathed her and the surrounding area of the quarantine tub, so knock on wood we’ll keep the collection clean while sending the seller a pissy email

snakerambles

Dang man, good luck!

reptiphoric

Jeeze, that sounds like a mess and a half. Hope everything turns up smoothly!

butthurtherpetologist-deactivat

That’s really unfortunate. I can’t wait to see her in a month or so and see a beautiful animal under all of that sadness though. Cause lets be real, we can all see the beauty waiting to be brought out.