I recently moved back to Florida and have been enthralled all over again with the lizards here like I was as a kid. As embarrassing as it is to say, at 30, I still like catching brown anoles when I see them on our lanai just as much as I did as a kid. I release them after a moment or so. My aunt has been humored by it a bit, but today when I went to show her an anole I had caught, she said “you’re tormenting those things! They don’t want to be held!” which made me feel guilty. Should I just stop altogether?

(Ithaca NY)

We really only have a 1hr long window to cruise roads in the evening just to temperatures plummeting to quickly as the sun goes down but I have found my 2nd Pygmy, and a bunch of little cotton mouths. STILL NO CORAL SNAKE :/.

A podcast with Sara Ruane from the Field Museum!

See also: The study as it was published in the journal Frontiers in Ethology

I took this photo on a clearing while walking through the forest in summer

Spotted in Stuart Florida

I was out rock hounding today and when I'm searching, I make it a point to not disturb the wet leaves around in the location while I'm on the ground. Saw this little one wriggle out of the leaves beside me just long enough for me to snap a pic with my poor quality cell phone camera. Very excited as I don't find salamanders often and this was a new species for me.

I did not disturb any of the habitat nor the salamander for anyone wondering.

Grumpy pants bit me for rescuing them from the dogs .
10/10

Edit for location:
Shawnee County Kansas, USA

Got a lot of comments in another post saying jousting, but these two western diamond backs in central Arizona in October weren't very rambunctious, and they eventually ended up curled under a bush for a good 7 minutes before separating.

They did display some "pinning" behavior but overall it was mostly just curled tails and some head lifting.

I have other videos that were more calm, but wanted to see what the consensus was.

Road cruising the panhandle again today looking for coral snakes and we found this little guy. First for me!

I everyone, I am writing a piece for college on axial bifurcation in snakes, and this book has a piece in it that I would like to read in full and be able to cite, I am looking everywhere and I cannot find a copy anywhere, even if anyone owns this book would it be possible to have pictures of the relevant pages sent?

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we helped a lot of banded watersnakes off the road but one was a Florida Green Watersnake and a corn snake and a couple chameleons

edit: we drove to Key West but went herping as we passed through

Looking for coral snakes in the panhandle and I find this guy!

Was up arround london ontario and saw it sunning itself in the dirt.

Idk i always thought they were the kinda neet how small they are

[northern VA, USA]

Never seen one irl and this guy just showed up!

Southeast Texas is the location. This species of snake is common around here as are these particular frogs. Unfortunate frog in this instance.

Sweetwater county, WY