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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-10-2020, 07:54 AM
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Alligators found at the Jacksonville Zoo
amazing how the water weed ( dill weed ?? ) helps to disguise the one which was coming out of the water
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-13-2019, 05:41 PM
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Nile River Monitor Varanus niloticus at the Denver Zoo
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-15-2019, 08:44 PM
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" I don't like to be photographed "
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-22-2019, 02:22 PM
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From the Scovill Zoo in Decatur, Illinois
the big ones from the Island chain:
Galapagos Tortoise Geochelone nigra
Sam (b. March 15, 1972) and Ella (b. March 15, 1969), are getting older, but for Galapagos Tortoises they are still fairly young. Galapagos Tortoises can live up to two hundred years old
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-09-2018, 08:13 AM
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turtle [ red ear slider Trachemys scripta elegans ]
at the Kansas City Zoo
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-14-2018, 09:24 AM
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out of the darkness
SOOC
K 3 II + SMC Pentax 100mm F2.8 Macro
photographed through the glass window of the enclosure at the Kansas City Zoo
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-14-2017, 06:12 PM
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we live in a house built in 1978, we have had a mouse or two or more over the years,
I suggested a constrictor
nice, quiet, unobtrusive, mostly care free
would take care of the mice
my wife suggested I move out
:confused:
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-07-2017, 02:45 AM
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Life on the edge perhaps
[ in the middle, there is no quick escape ]
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-25-2017, 03:53 AM
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getting warmed up
both seem unhappy
could it be due to missing legs ???
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-05-2017, 03:05 AM
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white throated monitor found at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha Nebraska ( photographed through the glass window of the enclosure )
1 I can smell you
2 is this my best side?
3 which is more impressive, the different textures of my skin or my claws?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-26-2017, 04:19 AM
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do not try this at home
IMHO, YMMV
unless you have the necessary antivenom on hand
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something that doesn't usually move as fast
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-16-2017, 03:20 PM
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the original ninja turtles (not any of the mutant teenage type) makes their discrete approach to spy out the land
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-27-2017, 10:49 AM
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I found a turtle lurking around at the Topeka Zoological Park
K 3 + HD PENTAX-D FA 150-450mm F4.5-5.6 ED DC AW hand held
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-19-2017, 03:36 AM
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can't quite tell if that a water moccasin Agkistrodon piscivorus aka cotton mouth???
don't have a good view of head/neck
http://ufwildlife.ifas.ufl.edu/water_moccasin_watersnake_comparison.shtml
if I had to guess I would say water snake of some type, not venomous
if it was a moccasin I hope you had a long lens I understand they can be aggressive unlike what I have heard about most snakes
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-16-2017, 06:20 PM
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next thing you will try to claim: quality over quantity????
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another one from the Kansas City Zoo
ided as
Spotted Python
The spotted python is small North Australian python that seldom reaches 5 feet in length. .
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-16-2017, 05:44 PM
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learn something new every day I would have bet and lost, I thought Australia was bigger than the entire US all 50 states
wait a second, No, 3 and 4 on the site you link to seem to indicate it is close but Australia is bigger than the lower 48
but this link shows you are correct???
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Australia/United-States/Geography
thanks
you get Bonus points
good any where in the World if you add $ (local currency) when you want coffee at the diner
lower 48 means no Alaska or Hawaii so I know what you mean about missing part of a country
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-16-2017, 05:03 PM
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as far as I know, an intentional exhibit, the pythons in the Everglades in Florida are Burmese but not that color
". . . The population of Burmese pythons presently established in the park is the result of accidental and/or intentional releases by pet owners. These introductions can have devastating consequences to our ecosystem. . . . "
Burmese Pythons - Everglades National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
it might be 1,500 miles give or take a mile or two between Kansas City and the "sea of grass" that is the Everglades (not far when compared to distances in Australia but then the United States is not a continent is it)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-16-2017, 04:00 PM
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Big Burmese Python found at the Kansas City Zoo in Kansas City Missouri
k 3 + Smc Pentax-DA L 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED WR
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-10-2017, 04:45 PM
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when approaching a strange dog which is with someone, I always ask permission. I then crouch down and slowly reach underhand toward the bottom of the head talking in a soft voice to the dog and the person with it. I work my way up to the back of the neck and ears
I read "Jack London's" "Call of the Wild" when I was in grade school where the character was told not to try to pet a dog with a down ward motion over the top of the head because it could be interpreted as a blow descending onto the dog
In all this time, I have never been bit when doing this YMMV
YET
"Jack London" was actually John Griffith Chaney
http://www.biography.com/people/jack-london-9385499 |
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-10-2017, 02:28 PM
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hey mister does your dog bite
son any animal can bite you up to and including humans
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