A site about amphibians, reptiles, and other creepy crawlies
Posted in Amphibians, Conservation, Salamanders on May 20th, 2013
I had the pleasure of meeting some of the members of Hellbender Media recently at a film festival in Portland, Oregon. I noticed they had hellbenders on their t-shirts and stuffed hellbenders on their merchandise table. It turns out that the stuffed hellbenders weren’t for sale (much to my displeasure). Instead the stuffed salamanders were [...]
Posted in Conservation, Education, Herpetology, Reptiles, Snakes on May 17th, 2013
At Serpent Encounters, we are not just breeders, we also promote education and conservation of our local species of snakes and we often emphasize this on our page. While we do have several breeding projects, and we add to our personal collection often, we get our biggest thrills from our field herping and taking pictures [...]
Posted in Conservation, Reptiles, Snakes, Turtles on May 17th, 2013
I was recently invited to tag along during an ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata ornata) survey that was being conducted by the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources. The collection methods were some of the furriest ones I’ve used to date. To search out the turtles the DNR brought in some fuzzy, tail-wagging specialists. They hired a [...]
Posted in Conservation, Education, Herpetology, Salamanders, Snakes on May 2nd, 2013
This story is a little out of the ordinary for us, since snakes are our normal specialty. After much help and convincing from The Wandering Herpetologist, we decided to make it into a story. We were in Hickman County, Tennessee on a cold rainy morning, we were pretty convinced that it was a dreadful day [...]
Posted in Conservation, Education, Reptiles, Snakes on May 1st, 2013
Center for Snake Conservation Fundraiser update for April. We only had two donors for April and we send them both huge, huge thank yous. We are now sooooo close to $700 for our donation total, only $2 away! Please consider donating a few dollars to help support snake conservation. If you donate $5 or more [...]
Posted in Conservation, Education, Reptiles on Apr 23rd, 2013
We recently partnered with the Dutch webzine, REPTILICIOUS Webzine. This webzine aims to increase the knowledge about reptiles in captivity and tries to create awareness of reptiles and amphibians in the wild. They also aim to increase how the hobby can contribute to species conservation and nature. These are all goals we here at TWH fully [...]
Posted in Conservation, Education, Herpetology, Snakes on Apr 19th, 2013
April 15th 2013 was a great day for Serpent Encounters, and would probably be considered a great day for any fellow herper. Up until now, we have not experienced such diversity in species in the same general location and it was a beautiful spring day in Middle Tennessee and a great day to be out. [...]
Posted in Conservation, Education, Herpetology, Reptiles, Snakes on Apr 17th, 2013
Update on the Earthshine Nature Programs Snake Tracks Timber Rattlesnake conservation project. Today I found Utsanati remaining in hibernation. Zoe was ~160 feet Southeast of her den. She was outstretched basking in the morning sun and although I walked to within 4 feet of her she never rattled. Take a look at the video footage [...]
Posted in Conservation, Lizards on Apr 7th, 2013
Most of the northern hemisphere is suffering from a long and cold winter. March in the Netherlands was one that broke several records. The average temperature was just a 2.6 degrees celsius, while the average since 1901 is around 6.9 degrees celsius. This entered March 2013 in the top ten of coldest years (just March) [...]
Posted in Conservation, Reptiles, Turtles on Mar 25th, 2013
I just finished reading Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of the World’s Most Famous Tortoise by Herny Nicholls. While this book does cover George and his life and lack of loves it also discusses the conservation of the Galapagos and the conservation of threatened species worldwide. Nicholls goes into detail about the strife and hardships the [...]
