No problem Ben. We all have the same problems with the internet. I've lost count of the number of misidentified species there are out there. It is often worth referring to books which tend to be much better researched but some just don't even exist. One thing I like about PN is that there is often an expert around to help, if you know who they are. We are currently looking at ways to display the names or contacts of experts willing to help in the various fields. This would make it easier for users to determine whether an identification suggestion is valid or not. Users with Ranger hats in their comments (such as mine) are often experts or at least fairly knowledgeable in their own fields and we often discuss IDs amongst ourselves. Sometimes we make mistakes, after all, we are only human. On the other hand there are some youngsters out there who make wild suggestions, often totally incorrect, just to try to increase their skills level to earn patches. We do try to weed out those we find. The reason I did not make a suggestion was because I was not 100% certain but I photographed one of these in Borneo a couple of months back and it looks just like yours. It will appear shortly. When I post it I will ask Lisa or Ashley for an opinion as they are herpetology experts.
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No problem Ben. We all have the same problems with the internet. I've lost count of the number of misidentified species there are out there. It is often worth referring to books which tend to be much better researched but some just don't even exist. One thing I like about PN is that there is often an expert around to help, if you know who they are. We are currently looking at ways to display the names or contacts of experts willing to help in the various fields. This would make it easier for users to determine whether an identification suggestion is valid or not. Users with Ranger hats in their comments (such as mine) are often experts or at least fairly knowledgeable in their own fields and we often discuss IDs amongst ourselves. Sometimes we make mistakes, after all, we are only human.
On the other hand there are some youngsters out there who make wild suggestions, often totally incorrect, just to try to increase their skills level to earn patches. We do try to weed out those we find.
The reason I did not make a suggestion was because I was not 100% certain but I photographed one of these in Borneo a couple of months back and it looks just like yours. It will appear shortly. When I post it I will ask Lisa or Ashley for an opinion as they are herpetology experts.
Thanks! It's sometimes hard to tell which websites are accurate and up to date when I'm trying to identify unfamiliar animals.
This is totally the wrong colour for Draco sumatranus which has an overall brown body, it actually appears to be Draco cornutus, a Bornean endemic.