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Boy, I've been photo happy!

Boolean's Python (HUGE, hard to take pics through the kiddy-fingerprint smeared window)

Rattler

Woma

Emerald Tree Boa

Wagler's Pit Viper

Aruba Island Rattlesnake

Rhinoceros Viper (I hate smeared glass!!!)

Sharp-nosed Pit Viper

Strange-colored Vine snake (I've always seen green OR brown, not green AND brown)

Frilled Lizard

Unidentified viper (could be a bushmaster, not sure)

Red Spitting Cobra

Taipan

Emerald Tree Monitor

King Cobra

Brazilian Lancehead

Madagascar Tree Boa

Black Tree Monitor

Unid'ed Eyelash Vipers

Unid'ed Rattlesnakes

Red-headed ratsnake

Rock Iguana

2-headed California Kingsnake

Knight Anole

Adult Gharial (yes that bump is normal-it means it is sexually mature)

Another iguana

Ok thats all my good ones!!!

-cat

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Cat,

Here are a few IDs for your pics....

- your first Rattler is C. durissus (it looks like the Yucatan subspecies)
- the "vine" snake is actually an African twig snake (Thelatornis capensis)
- your unidentified viper is a Bushmaster (I don't know which species)
- your unidentified Rattlesnakes are
1. Eastern Diamondback
2. Western Diamondback (I think, unless it is one of the island morphs from Baja)
3. and 4. Red Diamondback

BTW - enjoyed your trip log. Nice Housesnakes as well. Those dark ones get big. I used to have an Olive/Black fuliginosus that was almost 5 feet long.

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Chris Harrison

...he was beginning to realize he was the creature of a god that appreciated the discomfort of his worshippers - W. Somerset Maugham

>>Cat,
>>
>>Here are a few IDs for your pics....
>>
>>- your first Rattler is C. durissus (it looks like the Yucatan subspecies)
>>- the "vine" snake is actually an African twig snake (Thelatornis capensis)
>>- your unidentified viper is a Bushmaster (I don't know which species)
>>- your unidentified Rattlesnakes are
>>1. Eastern Diamondback
>>2. Western Diamondback (I think, unless it is one of the island morphs from Baja)
>>3. and 4. Red Diamondback
>>
>>BTW - enjoyed your trip log. Nice Housesnakes as well. Those dark ones get big. I used to have an Olive/Black fuliginosus that was almost 5 feet long.
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>>Chris Harrison
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>>...he was beginning to realize he was the creature of a god that appreciated the discomfort of his worshippers - W. Somerset Maugham

Thanks! The zoo did not have any of those "unknown" snakes IDed on tags like they had for the others. Glad you liked the trip log!

Mine is still a baby yet, but I was able to see the mother-she was about 3 1/2 feet of beautiful black/olive snake. Not nippy at all.

-cat
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Nice shots! What do you use? Really liked your shots of the sharped-noised viper and the red cobra.-Smokey

>>Nice shots! What do you use? Really liked your shots of the sharped-noised viper and the red cobra.-Smokey

I was using an Olympus c-4000 zoom. Thanks!

-cat
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How much do they run for? I NEED a better cam!-Smokey

>>How much do they run for? I NEED a better cam!-Smokey

I'm not sure now, you could check around online for pricing.

-cat
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n/p

nice pictures... what time did you go at? it seemd like they were all active and out of hiding.... i usually get a few active every visit, but not thta many. i havent been there in a while, seems they've got some new animals, but do they still have the caiman lizards and the crocodile lizard? i love those guys and they love hiding from me lol. im gonna go as soon as i have some sort of a break, i have way too much work now, and i dont know when its gonna end. oh by the way i especially liked the spitting cobrah pictures... is it really that easily agrevated? or were kids poking the glass when you were taking the pictures?
keep it up
-jake
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0.0.1 Senegal Parrot
0.0.1 Red Eared Slider
0.0.1 California Kingsnake
0.0.1 Royal (Ball) Python
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon
1.0.0 Timor Monitor
0.0.1 Nigerian Tailess Whipscorpion
0.1.0 Cat
1.0.0 Green Anole
0.0.1 Long-Tailed Grass Lizard
1.0.0 Jewled Curly-Tailed Lizard
1.0.0 Side-Blotched Lizard
0.0.1 African Dwarf Frog
1.0.0 Guppy
1.0.0 Betta
0.0.1 Platy
0.0.0 Komodo Dragon

>>nice pictures... what time did you go at? it seemd like they were all active and out of hiding.... i usually get a few active every visit, but not thta many. i havent been there in a while, seems they've got some new animals, but do they still have the caiman lizards and the crocodile lizard? i love those guys and they love hiding from me lol. im gonna go as soon as i have some sort of a break, i have way too much work now, and i dont know when its gonna end. oh by the way i especially liked the spitting cobrah pictures... is it really that easily agrevated? or were kids poking the glass when you were taking the pictures?
>>keep it up
>>-jake
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>>0.0.1 Senegal Parrot
>>0.0.1 Red Eared Slider
>>0.0.1 California Kingsnake
>>0.0.1 Royal (Ball) Python
>>1.0.0 Bearded Dragon
>>1.0.0 Timor Monitor
>>0.0.1 Nigerian Tailess Whipscorpion
>>0.1.0 Cat
>>1.0.0 Green Anole
>>0.0.1 Long-Tailed Grass Lizard
>>1.0.0 Jewled Curly-Tailed Lizard
>>1.0.0 Side-Blotched Lizard
>>0.0.1 African Dwarf Frog
>>1.0.0 Guppy
>>1.0.0 Betta
>>0.0.1 Platy
>>0.0.0 Komodo Dragon

Yes they did still have them. We were there around 11am. The spitting cobra was yawning.

-cat
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