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A beautiful California Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata)

#herping #fieldherping #nature #wildlife #photography

Angled side view of a large turtle on the sand bank of a river. The turtle has a massive head, and the mouth is wide open, revealing a strongly hooked beak on both top and bottom. The carapace (top shell) has prominent keels that look like mountain peaks. The head and limbs are a dark, marbled brown, and the carapace is almost black in color.

More of the MS-LA theme with an Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) from Louisiana. These large turtles dwell on river bottoms with jaws open, wiggling a fleshy pink worm-like protuberance inside their mouths to entice unwary fish. #herps #turtles #TurtleTuesday #NaturePhotography🌿

mort: An R package to conservatively identify mortalities and shed tags in passive telemetry arrays Neglecting to consider mortalities can generate bias in telemetry studies. The R package mort identifies potential mortalities or expelled tags in passive telemetry arrays. Thresholds are derived fro...

mort: An R package to conservatively identify mortalities and shed tags in passive telemetry arrays. Journal of Animal Ecology, 00, 1–13. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Does anyone have access to the following PDF? Thanks!

Mettee, M. F., P. E. O’Neil, T. E. Shepard, and S. W. McGregor. 2006. Fish movements and fish passage at Claiborne and Millers Ferry locks and dams on the Alabama River, Alabama.
Geological Survey of Alabama Circular 202.

A large, robust salamander on a white background. Lateral view, looking down from about a 45 degree angle. Head facing to the left. Tail on right but curved down towards bottom of frame. The salamander has a thick tail, body and legs. The body almost looks swollen due to the large number of eggs this female is carrying. The salamander has a dark gray to black background, with a mix of light gray-blue and gray, indistinct splotches on its side. The splotches are lighter neard the belly and get darker towards the back.

One of our impressive unisexual Ambystoma salamanders from the 2025 breeding season, which has largely wrapped up at our sites in northeast Ohio.

A large neotenic adult california giant salamander underwater at the bottom of a cold stream at night. Its skin is bumpy, perhaps a sign of trematode infection and despite its large size the gills are small as the cold flowing water is well oxygenated.

Night snorkeling in the redwoods to find an old friend. I posted that I was going to go look for this individual last week & I found the same one (I thiiink)! In the same deep pool I saw it in a year ago. A neotenic california giant salamander that never metamorphosed & never left the water. 🦎🌎

A large paedomorphic pacific giant salamander underwater

If everything goes according to plan tonight, I'll be spending some time in the water with this big fella - a neotenic california giant salamander. If I can't find him, hopefully some of his relatives will be in the waterways nearby. 🦎

Also - if you are a current grad student at a Midwest institution, I highly recommend hosting the 2026 edition and beyond!

I helped host the 2024 edition at SIUE and it was a great experience. I highly recommend attending!!!

The Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC) is hosted by the biology graduate students at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. Please help spread the word!

Abstract Submission Due: March 28th
Conference: April 25-27th

www.umsl.edu/biology/meec...

SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United States Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multicontributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal resp.....

SNAPSHOT USA was a fun project to work on. I participated while TAing an Ecology course in fall 2023. Lots of deer and coyotes on campus! doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Does anyone have a PDF of the following article? Thanks!

Silva, C. da., et al. 2021. Testing the waters to find the ‘goldilocks’ zone: fine-scale movement of Mustelus mustelus in relation to environmental cues. Marine and Freshwater Research 73:110–124.

Does anyone have a PDF of the following article? Thanks!

Silva, C. da., et al. 2021. Testing the waters to find the ‘goldilocks’ zone: fine-scale movement of Mustelus mustelus in relation to environmental cues. Marine and Freshwater Research 73:110–124.

Wintu Shasta Salamander (Hydromantes wintu) in its limestone cave habitat

#herps #herpetology #fieldherping #salamander

SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United States Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multicontributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal resp.....

SNAPSHOT USA was a fun project to work on. I participated while TAing an Ecology course in fall 2023. Lots of deer and coyotes on campus! doi.org/10.1111/geb....

A blue and gray salamander on a lichen crusted log

A dark salamander on a mossy log with some dead leaves in the background

A small silvery and gray salamander on a fallen oak leaf

I love Mole Salamanders and their variety (and their long toes and goofy faces). Here are 3 from Georgia after not seeing some for a while! 😊 #herps

Coastal Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus)

A tiger salamander laying eggs underwater

My favorite recent image. Was going to hold onto it until it was published somewhere but changed my mind. This is a threatened CA tiger salamander laying eggs - my images were the 1st time this has been photographed in the wild, & this is my fav of the set. Notice the eggs near her chin!🌎🦎

A red salamander with black spots on a mossy substrate with some brownish leaves in the frame

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with this pretty red and green scene! Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) from northern Georgia this fall #herps

A side view of a salamander fills the image from left to right. The tail is at the right, the body pointing to the left, but the front third of the sally curves back to the right, with the face angled towards the camera. The overall color of the sally is dark gray with an overlay of very tiny light gray dots. The limbs are the same color, along with streaky blotches of a coppery orange. The tail has the same background color, but also has many irregular blotches, whitish and with some coppery orange hues here and there. The effect makes the tail resemble a lichen-spotted branch. The eyes are large and bulging from the head, and are completely black.

Firschein's Salamander (Pseudoeurycea firscheini) from Veracruz state, Mexico. A male; the fleshy little nubbins at the snout's end are called cirri, and carry pheromones and other chemical signatures to the nostrils, in order to find females and locate rival males. #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿

Spring Peepers will soon be calling in Florida #herps

I'm excited to announce I've joined the NRES Dept at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a research coordinator where I will be investigating fish movements at lock and dam sites in the Upper Mississippi River. Looking forward to doing some awesome science!

They look like sliders and cooters, but chicken turtles are different altogether. This species specializes in disjunct seasonal ponds, and can spend MOST of the year out of water. Their thin shells allow them to travel on land more easily, but makes them vulnerable to predation. #turtles #wildlife

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Western mud snake (Farancia abacura reinwardtii) Nacogdoches County, TX May 2022

Bladderwort: How a Carnivorous Plant Could Be Used in Mosquito Control Bladderwort is a rootless, aquatic plant that uses small sacs to ingest and feed on small underwater creatures, including mosquito larvae. A new study in India finds that the bladderwort Utricularia a...

Bladderwort: How a carnivorous aquatic plant could be used in mosquito control. (!)

The images alone!

entomologytoday.org/2024/03/27/b...
#MacrophyteMonday #Utricularia #AquaticPlants #biocontrol

Spea bombifrons (Plains Spadefoot Toad) Andrews County, TX July 2022

Uta stansburiana (Side-blotched lizard) Andrews County, TX July 2022

Take a Peek into What the Turtles Have Been Up To While They’re Away From the Turtle Pond Turtles from the UT turtle pond have been temporarily relocated away from the main campus.

While students are on fall break, the turtles of UT’s turtle pond are on a vacation of their own while the pond undergoes repairs.

Read on to learn more, including how the current relocation offers a unique opportunity to study these campus icons.
#UTTurtlePond #UTAustin #UTTurtles #TexasScience