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20220624 - 09 A juvenile female Wagler's Pit Viper circa 30cm, in a Telok Bahang garden, Penang, Malaysia. Mature females are black with yellow stripes; the smaller males are green with a different body shape, slimmer, head less triangular. Tropidolaemus
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20200205 - 10 Eastern Water Dragon, Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii circa 700mm. Agamidae. Ku-Ring-Gai.
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20200114 - 32 Lace Monitor or Tree Goanna, Varanus varius circa 1.3m.
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20200105 - 21 Peron's Tree Frog, Maniacal Cackle Frog, Litoria peronii circa 48mm. These frogs do not like water much. They have cross-shaped pupils.
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20190716 - 01 Striped Marsh Frog, Limnodynastes peronii circa 70mm.
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20180705 - 23 Four-lined Tree Frog, but do not bother to count the lines as these frogs are quite varied; better name is Common Tree Frog. This one was found on a white wall which may have influenced its appearance; Polypedates leucomystax, circa 45mm.
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20180704 - 03 Croc circa 3 metres, 20km from Orchard Rd, Singapore. Shoppers please note and dress accordingly. Crocodylus porosus, the largest reptile.
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20180418 - 48 Vine Snake or Oriental Whip Snake, Ahaetulla prasina, circa 175cm.
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20180418 - 07 Banded Flying Snake or Twin-barred Tree Snake, Chrysopelea pelias, circa 60cm. Colubrid. Singapore.
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20180418 - 06 Adult Banded Flying Snake or Twin-barred Tree Snake, Chrysopelea pelias, circa 60cm. Ambush set. Colubridae Serpentes.
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20180413 - 04 Keeled Rat Snake, Ptyas carinatus 2.1m hunting. This is a very large species; first glimpse is of a king cobra, it takes a while to get that alarming notion out of your head, in spite of the patterning.
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20180228 - 03 Pink-headed Reed Snake Calamaria schlegeli, harmless. Compare with the dangerous Blue Malayan Coral Snake, Calliophis bivirgata in my 20140806 - 11.
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20180228 - 02 Pink-headed Reed Snake picked from the jungle floor by a passing expert able to distinguish it from a dangerous coral snake; you probably can not so best refrain. Calamaria schlegeli, a burrower.
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20180202 - 22 Banded Flying Snake or Twin-barred Tree Snake, Chrysopelea pelias. Pencil thin and light enough to navigate a fern frond without it moving. Barring is not obvious from the side but is from above (see previous picture). Poisonous to geckos.
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20180202 - 20 Banded Flying Snake or Twin-barred Tree Snake, Chrysopelea pelias, a rarely seen species. This 60cm adult male was quite placid. Barring of the dorsal quadrant is seen from above but is not obvious side on ( see next photo ).
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20180202 - 11 Banded Flying Snake, Chrysopelea pelias. These snakes can fly, but sometimes they take the road.
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20171229 - 20 Four-lined Tree Frog found in one of the many rare bromeliads of "Art and Garden", Penang, Malaysia. Polypedates leucomystax is also known as Golden Tree Frog for obvious reasons.
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20171008 - 03 Changeable Lizard on Cannonball Tree. Calotes versicolor on Couroupita guianensis.
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20170804 - 29 Wagler's Pit Viper or Temple Viper; Tropidolaemus wagler. Pronounce as waglers wiper or vaglers viper, your choice. Oh, and "... the exquisite selectivity of Waglerin-1 for the adult mouse ...", Wikipedia.
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20161004 - 04. A Clouded Monitor hunting centipedes under leaf litter. Finding dozens at the rate of one a minute. Varanus nebulosus. Varanidae Squamata.
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20160410 - 04 Clouded Monitor, Varanus nebulosus strolling in public. Varanidae Squamata.
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20160404 - 20 Kopstein's Bronzeback in display. This snake puffs itself up to reveal hidden colourful scales ( see adjacent picture of same snake, now beige ). Dendrelaphis kopsteini Colubridae Serpentes.
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20160404 - 18 Kopstein's Bronzeback in stealthy mode. This snake tightens its skin by sliding rows of scales underneath each other until all colourful scales are hidden in a dark stripe ( see adjacent photo for this same snake in lurid display ).
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20160110 - 35 Singapore Botanic Gardens is an excellent place to stumble upon local fauna. Black Spitting Cobra. Naja sumatrana Elapidae Serpentes.
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20151015 - 06. Wild. Crocodylus porous. Singapore.
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20150929 - 08. Wild Saltie, Sungai Buloh, Singapore; quite large.
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20150929 - 07 In the wilds of Singapore. Crocodylus porosus.
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20150927 - 19 Free-range croc Singapore. Crocodylus porosus.
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20150922 - 04. Water Monitor, second-heaviest lizard after Komodo Dragon. Varanus salvator. Varanidae Squamata.
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20150904 - 02 Wild Croc.
