A site about amphibians, reptiles, and other creepy crawlies
There are many bad conditions of leopard gecko such as the MBD (Metabolic Bone Disease) of bending bones, the rupture, and the egg binding etc. In my case, I had studied about eyes of leopard gecko for three months. I was helped by the legend of leopard gecko ‘Ron Tremper’, the Urban Gecko ‘Lori Stewart’, the [...]
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 Amphibians, Frogs, Reptiles, Snakes, Turtles on May 13th, 2013
As many of you know I’m a field wildlife biologist/herpetologist which means I get to spend a lot of time outside for my job. I’m always coming across fun wildlife and wanted to share with you the latest herps I’ve seen in Wisconsin while either working or playing. All of the following except the paint [...]
My first leopard gecko hatchling was born and the second gecko hatchling was born after three days. The second gecko when compared to the first gecko is too small. The second gecko’s walking was strange. In spite of him not being an ‘Enigma(morph)’, he walked around at just one side and also walked [...]
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 Frogs, Herpetology, Lizards, Snakes on Apr 26th, 2013
Finally, spring is here! At least it was… Currently just a scarce 10 degrees Celsius but the past week we had a couple days that even reached the 25 degrees. So as it was time to get out and find some reptiles. I visited three areas, the first one especially for vipers, but the weather was [...]
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 Herpetology, Lizards, Reptiles on Apr 20th, 2013
Right now everyday I have off seems to be either to cold or have winds exceeding 20 mph. Nothing about this is ideal but few days are absolutely perfect for herping and staying inside has yet to produce rattlesnakes for me. I went hiking at Red Rock Canyon State Park in Kern County, California on [...]
