Archive for the 'Non-Lizards' Category

A real ninja turtle!

I spotted this guy hiding in the dirt at a botanical center last weekend.

Frog Playing iPhone Game

Put a starving frog in front of video ants, and this is what you get.

Frog Feeding FAIL

Not sure where this came from, but I love it.

Snake on car, people freak, snake dies

I only have two comments about this video: 1) That wasn’t a water moccasin. You can tell by the head that it wasn’t a poisonous snake. 2) Even if it had been poisonous, it’s still a vital part of the ecosystem, and all the driver had to do is pull over and let it crawl [...]

Emily Peeler’s Award Winning Photograph

How many turtles can you spot in this picture?

Giant “Alien” Snakes Are Invading?

(Read Article on PawNation) This somewhat misleading title on PawNation links to a rather interesting article on problems caused by letting exotic pets go into the wild. This is actually old news.  But it’s a really good picture. Personally, if I were a kid right now, I’d be excited about the prospect of going out [...]

Rattlesnake

He bends down to grab
A tail where I see
A rattle…

New Haven VT Cares for their Amphibians

A reader sent in this heart-warming story: Volunteers in New Haven, Vermont spend long hours at night helping newts, frogs, and salamanders cross the road safely, and are even hoping to arrange construction of little underpasses for creatures to safely pass under the roadway. This is awesome. People tend to forget that these are living [...]

Snake Eats Dog

Well, this is one way to deal with a yappy little dog… This 10 foot wild python saw Patty Buntine’s Maltese terrier cross-breed, named Bindi, as food. As you can tell by the terrier-sized lump in the snake’s tummy. The dog’s owner is sad but not vindictive.  The snake gets to live, and in fact [...]

Brown Snake Devouring Fish

DSC_0452 Snake Devouring Fish Originally uploaded by FLYINGFEET (~Hart~) I stumbled across this on Flickr… Never seen a snake eating a goldfish before, at least not in the wild.