Mel_U_No_Me

I'm an ecology research associate a.k.a. field tech...and always on the lookout for herps :) Many of the species on here are photographs I've captured out at work.

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Western Chorus Frog

Pseudacris triseriata

Photo taken same night as Mr. Woodhouse :)

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Love these little guys :)

Bufo woodhousii

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Helllloooo Colorado Herp Season!!!

Big, beautiful, king of the pool, Bufo woodhousii

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Crotalus viridis 

Another fine find on the Pawnee, wish I had come across more this summer, but they were few and far between.

This feisty fellow was hanging around our mammal grids, took this photo a couple years ago.

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:)

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Check out my awesome living room tropical terrarium! I built it myself and bought windows from Home Depot. It was very inexpensive and has lights and a humidifier on timers.

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This is amazing!

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Found this little guy on top of debris left over from the flood.

I didn't pick him up to get a better ID, I believe he had been stressed out enough, but I'm pretty confident he's a species of garter snake 

Thamnophis spp.

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Crotalus tigris 

I really do love the "creepy-crawlies", I'm the muggle version of Hagrid :)

  Hope you enjoyed my many herp photos :)

Working hard everyday to try to change someone's outlook on these misunderstood creatures.

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One of my favorites from the exhibit "Fear to Fascination"

Crotalus cerastes

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Crotalus lepidus

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Crotalus stephensi

One of my first field jobs was working on a prairie chicken study, out in eastern New Mexico, and that's what really set the foundation for the many years of herp-ing I plan to do :)

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"...grumpy, grouchy old western..."

Handsome fellow, need I say more?

Crotalus atrox

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The volunteer walking through a bit of the exhibit with me, told me that this eastern is "...a pretty easy going guy, now that western, on the other hand, is a grumpy, grouchy old man." :)

The record sizes of these snakes are so impressive.

Amazing creatures!

Crotalus adamanteus

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Sistrurus viridis 

They're plenty of pictures to come, more if my camera hadn't died in the museum!

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Crotalus willardi

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While working in Kansas for my new job, the other research tech and I, visited the local hot spots. Who knew Hays, KS had so much for a herpetologist in the making :)

Taken at the Sternberg Museum, Hays, KS; "Fear to Fascination" Exhibit.

Crotalus horridus

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