after being sick all damn week took youngest to the poola nd found a tree frog! Plan to go out tomorrow to herp some, but have to catch up on chores too.
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Found this tiny snake day before yesterday!
More photos at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/310001604.
I later picked it up, (the third snake I have picked up!), and dropped it of near a tree, I guess it just got lost and wandered near the house, thankfully the cats were not nearby!
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Now, a pond slider!
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These are some awesome reptiles! Floridian species I presume?
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Today as I walked out the door, I saw this on my railing. It was set so perfectly, I at first thought it might be a figurine that someone placed there to try to fool me. But then I put on my reading glasses and saw its chin pulsating the way only a real frog would do.
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Was pretty stoked to see this snake cross the trail in front of me on Saturday. Totally thought it was a Masticophis but iNat’s CV was right and it’s Salvadora. Gorgeous animal.
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Some days I feel sad, but then I remember evolution created this majestic creature:
I’ve never seen one but I friggin love arabian sand boas. I mean, LOOK AT IT! It’ a derp herp.
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Yeah… but adorable.
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If I was that close to a cottonmouth displaying its white, I wouldn’t stay that close.
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For sure 
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Don’t worry, we were looking down on it, and were out of striking range.
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awesome pics!
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Sorry I didn’t read the whole thread. I have a question to the specialists. Currently I see a lot of young geckos (mainly Tarentola mauritanica), some with missing tail.
Of course I know that lizards and apparently also geckos can break off their tails to escape a predator. Then a kind of substitute tail without bones grows. Now my question: Can this substitute also break off or do the animals only have one chance in life?
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Correct, the replacement is basically just cartilage, as I understand it. And it cannot be broken off by the lizard.
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A regenerated tail cannot be broken off by the lizard, but apparently can sometimes be broken again.
Also, apparently lizards can sometimes lose their tail multiple times, but usually to do so they have to lose the tail further toward the base where they still control autotomy.
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Thanks!!
Thanks to both! So the young one above has already used its “joker”. :(