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Road Cruise--6/02/08

tyflier

tyflier

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Took a quick cruise around some back roads again last night. Found a couple cool snakes...repeats of previous finds, but fun none-the-less:

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Great Basin Gophersnake doing a reasonable rattlesnake impression.

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Sub-adult Western Longnose, found in the same location as the other normal phase longnose I found and kept. This little one had a serious scar on the lower 1/3 of his body. He either got hit or half eaten and recovered not too long ago...

We also found a D.O.R. Panamint Rattler...but I'm not really a fan of posting D.O.R. pics unless it is a rare species....
 
I like the longnose! I didn't know you'd kept one. There was an article on them in Reptiles in the last year- that was where I'd first heard of them. What is their temperment like? The one you're holding looks very calm.
 
The longnose are very calm and gentle. So far, I have found 2 normal phase and a Clarus phase, and all three have been incredibly easy to handle and gentle as can be.

I kept one of the normal phase...an adult...he's doing well. He ate a live lizard for me last week. Hopefully I can get him switched over to f/t rodents soon enough. If not...he's cool enough to keep feeding live lizards too...I don't mind.

My goal is to have a collection of local colubrids and boids I can use for education at the schools and stuff. The kids will appreciate seeing local snakes more than my breeders, I think...
 
tyflier said:
My goal is to have a collection of local colubrids and boids I can use for education at the schools and stuff. The kids will appreciate seeing local snakes more than my breeders, I think...
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Thats an awesome goal! I would love to own a local collection of Arizona snakes, however I cant seem to find anything other than "Boring old" Thamnophis elegans (terrestial garter).
This years tally so far :
Garters: 8
Black Rattle snake: 1

Tell me, how do you get so lucky finding all of those Bulls?? :)
 
Those aren't bullsnakes, they are gophersnakes. Very closely related, to be sure, but different subspecies of the Pituophis catenifer complex. In particular, the ones pictured are all Great Basin Gophersnakes(P.c. deserticola). I know this only because they are the only Pituophis species found in my area...and they are one of the most proliferate snakes to be found around here. Cruise any back road in Inyo County California between late May and October between dusk and 10:30pm, and you're likely to find one or two...
 
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