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bwaffa
at Mon Jul 5 17:22:33 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bwaffa ]
>>Obviously, that guy is NO professional regardless of what he claimed to be. Your example is irrelevant because maybe the guy claimed to be some expert, but a REAL expert would never confuse a garter and a corn, even if they were both pure white.
In defense of the guy who found (sort of) and brokered that garter -- he never personally "claimed to be" an expert (though many in this business respect him as such) and he would be the very first to admit that Colubrids are not his true area of interest or expertise. The poor guy's been near blind as a bat since a recent Western Diamondback envenomation a few months back -- a bite that warranted hospitalization and eye surgery -- so I'd be inclined to cut his visual diagnostic abilities some slack before dismissing him as some fly by night. He's been field herping, keeping and breeding since you and I were learning to crawl!
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RE: another pic -- - bwaffa, Mon Jul 5 17:22:33 2010