Well back home from the wild again for a bit...

The last mission I was on...Lamprophis swazicus! An extremely extremely rare little snake not many herpetologist have seen alive. DNA is needed for these as they have realized they do not belong in the genus they are currently in! Well going was somtimes tough... it is virtually winter here and these are found up in the mountains. The swazi rock snake.

It was cold, wet, alot of walking, climbing, hiking lifting etc. But found not one swazi rock snake . We found....three!!!!!! Whoot whoot...could get blood samples for DNA sequencing. Was awesome...unbelievable feeling.

Also found a bunch of other stuff. Would love to write a long report on the trip but thought I will just put a bunch of random pictures...you can ask questions and I shall answer! Enjoy!





































just a tiny slice of what was found

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Whats the lizard second to bottom? Very cool coloring!

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Thanks for sharing these great pictures!
I too want to know what that lizard is, and what is the green snake??

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0.0.2 painted turtles (Mo and Squirt)
1.0.0 yellow bellied slider (Jebidiah)
0.1.0 Amelanistic corn snake (Rose)
1.0.0 Hog Island/Colombian Boa (Kah)
0.2.1 Colombian Boa (Jasmine) and her babies
1.0.0 Suriname? Boa (Kayne)
0.2.0 Cats (Lilly and Reese)

Devon, I can live a very full life, vicariously, through you. Thanks for sharing the neat pictures!

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What? No tortoises? lol, I too, would love to know what the lizard is second to the bottom!

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I have sucker tattood on my forehead

I think it is a Red-headed rock agama. I may be wrong though.

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*dies a little inside*

Curse my parents for raising me here. All we have are garter snakes.

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~Lacey~

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**pats Lacey's head.

Seriously, Devin, tell us what everything is. GREAT pics, too!

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"This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world." John Steinbeck

ok thanks for comments. The little lizards you are all asking about is the belly of Platysaurus lebomboensis. If you have watched planet earth...it is a
Lebombo Flat lizard almost like the flat lizards jumping around catching the flys by the waterfall. Look identical

The males have extremely bright undersides which they use to communicate.

The green snake is a spotted bush snake( Philothamnus semivariegatus)

there are also two nile monitors, giant plated lizard, drakensburg crag lizard, swazi rock snake(the orange ones), Cross-marked grass snake and mozambique spitting cobra pictured.

oh and nicole...not one tortoise! did find a terrepin tho

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Great stuff Devon!
Looks like the monitor was really enjoying your finger!

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