Climate Extremes

Now, bugs...that's a problem which grosses me out. Lol


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Let's see, in Phnom Penh you would find (potentially in your house) giant poisonous centipedes, tarantulas, cobras and venemous watersnakes, scorpions,..but also tokay geckos as housemates to keep most of these in check... usually.



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What kind of snake is that Tokay eating? The face shape tells me colubrid, likely something from Coluber family of racers.

The pattern looks like a Waglers pit viper.

Pretty snake!


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Now, bugs...that's a problem which grosses me out. Lol


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Let's see, in Phnom Penh you would find (potentially in your house) giant poisonous centipedes, tarantulas, cobras and venemous watersnakes, scorpions,..but also tokay geckos as housemates to keep most of these in check... usually.



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What kind of snake is that Tokay eating? The face shape tells me colubrid, likely something from Coluber family of racers.

The pattern looks like a Waglers pit viper.

Pretty snake!


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Not sure, we have several pit vipers among 17 venemous snakes, that might be Vogel's PV.

https://www.thailandsnakes.com/southeast...dangerous/

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Let's see, in Phnom Penh you would find (potentially in your house) giant poisonous centipedes, tarantulas, cobras and venemous watersnakes, scorpions,..but also tokay geckos as housemates to keep most of these in check... usually.



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What kind of snake is that Tokay eating? The face shape tells me colubrid, likely something from Coluber family of racers.

The pattern looks like a Waglers pit viper.

Pretty snake!


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Not sure, we have several pit vipers among 17 venemous snakes, that might be Vogel's PV.

https://www.thailandsnakes.com/southeast...dangerous/

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It's a Chrysopelia genus tree snake. Not exactly sure which subspecies as they are so intricate and ornate it can be difficult to decipher without having intimate experience with them, but this one appears to be an Ornate Tree Snake, or Chrysopelea ornata. Evidently they are very common in 4 different species throughout the Southeast Asia area.

Harmless colubrid. Non-venomous. GORGEOUS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopelea

What kind of snake is that Tokay eating? The face shape tells me colubrid, likely something from Coluber family of racers.

The pattern looks like a Waglers pit viper.

Pretty snake!


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Not sure, we have several pit vipers among 17 venemous snakes, that might be Vogel's PV.

https://www.thailandsnakes.com/southeast...dangerous/

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It's a Chrysopelia genus tree snake. Not exactly sure which subspecies as they are so intricate and ornate it can be difficult to decipher without having intimate experience with them, but this one appears to be an Ornate Tree Snake, or Chrysopelea ornata. Evidently they are very common in 4 different species throughout the Southeast Asia area.

Harmless colubrid. Non-venomous. GORGEOUS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopelea
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Good on you. I keep my distance.

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Wow. Great pics. Of course we have these...


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Trophy Hunter was crushed in Zimbabwe today. They spooked some elephants and one picked him up in his trunk. Fellow hunter shot the elephant who fell, crushing the guide. I'm hardly vegan, but it pays to respect all life. My few encounters with snakes, scorpions and elephants have been cordial. But beef cattle aside from docile longhorns? Those nasty French charolais? I loved buying a side from the one that body slammed me.

Gila or beaded lizard and rattler aka buzzworm. AZ natives unlike all those New Yorkers who filled the Phoenix basin with exotic plant pollens and ruined it.

Gila or beaded lizard and rattler aka buzzworm. AZ natives unlike all those New Yorkers who filled the Phoenix basin with exotic plant pollens and ruined it.

Beaded lizards are a different species than Gila lizards. Mexican Beaded Lizards (Heloderma horridum) occur in central Mexico and south, and don't make up into the US. Gila Monsters(Heloderma suspectum) are found in Arizona, Baja California, southern Parts of Texas and northern Mexico. Different animals altogether.

And you really should stop trying to insult someone in all of your posts. There has been more invasive plants introduced to AZ by the state than by transplanted New Yorkers...

Gila or beaded lizard and rattler aka buzzworm. AZ natives unlike all those New Yorkers who filled the Phoenix basin with exotic plant pollens and ruined it.

Beaded lizards are a different species than Gila lizards. Mexican Beaded Lizards (Heloderma horridum) occur in central Mexico and south, and don't make up into the US. Gila Monsters(Heloderma suspectum) are found in Arizona, Baja California, southern Parts of Texas and northern Mexico.  Different animals altogether.

And you really should stop trying to insult someone in all of your posts. There has been more invasive plants introduced to AZ by the state than by transplanted New Yorkers...

Thank you from a fellow native New Yorker.  Come on KAV, give this former Brooklynite a break.

Familiar with Edward Abbey ' The Thoreau' of the American west? He always ended a public speaking engagement with " If I failed to insult anybody, I apologize"
blaming the ill's of western states on New Yorkers is a literary devise of humor ( this sauce is made in---NEW YORK CITY! get a rope ) in the same spirit of Woody Allen
commenting culturally California has only given us right turns on the red. We share the same first name, not Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and I did not agree to have a battle. I stand corrected on typing beaded lizard with Gila. I actually did take a biology class from the writer of the classic two volume tome on buzzworms and as you know lived in Scottsdale and worked the mule concession at the canyon two seasons.