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Project Noah Nature School
Biochemist, Cell/Molecular Biologist, and field herping fanatic. Love photographing reptiles and amphibians!
Denver, CO
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Ah, my old friend! I miss finding these when I lived back east. All time favorite North American Ratsnake!!! Awesome find.
This one is hard to call. I'm still gonna go with SW Speckled, but it is somewhat possible that this could be a Mojave. Depends on if there are bands on the tail or not. But a blown up shot of the head might be enough to determine it. Mojave's have a unique arrangement of large scales on the dorsal surface of the head.
Not a Mojave either. They don't have bands, they are blotched, much like the Western Diamondbacks.
Definitely a SW Speckled, I've seen pictures of many of these in that area and they all look like this. Really nice find! Definitely not a Tiger, totally wrong area for them.
Adult male Eastern Box Turtle. I miss these guys.
This is true... in North America ONLY! In other parts of the world, this is definitely NOT the case.
I encountered one of these in MD while field herping with my father near the Appalachian Trail! Awesome find!
@ Ilya: LOL, he was all bark and no bite.
@ Weirdoz: In most cases, the cobra is deadlier. But it really depends on the rattlesnake. There is one species that can drop a grown man in less than 15-20 minutes!
