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This could have been interesting.
Ok honestly i dont know how you managed to get yourself into a huff over this thread. All I am doing is trying to work out where you found Cape Files and scutatus together. Thats interesting.
Nobody is questioning if you know what a Cape File looks like, I just wondered if it was a typo.
Get over yourself, you didnt have to turn this ugly
Yeah I also think there is a huff for nothing. A general area would suffice like Froot said but if you are worried that forum members are gonna road cruise over the whole of the waterberg area and save the snakes from certain tyre death then I understand. I am willing to bet R100 that these snakes were taken somewhere in the waterberg area, be it Thabazimbi/Vaalwater/Ellisrus, all those roads are productive with all these species. And the roads are sometimes flooded with Naja mossambica.
Regarding the garter snake. I am also willing to bet it is not a sundevallii fitzsimonsi or sundevallii media (the only 2 that could possibly be found in the area). Boulengers garter snakes are relatively common up there. The sundevalli complex still have feint bandig at that size, bouldengeri lose the bands quick. Did you do scale counts? Got a close up of the head? Which specific species did you think it was? Saying sundavalls is vague?
Think! If cars are killing off so many animals, I don't want some plonker with an itch up his ass adding to the species loss up there.
I was in my car.
No, you think. Of all the cars driving that road you were on, what percentage would you say were driven by herp enthusiasts eager to beef up their collection?
If you gave us a vague idea of where you were when I asked you those chances would not be any bigger, but the knowledge that this topic would've brought us would've been more valuable.
.But I decided to shut up and leave it. You say you weren't in a 'huff' but you take this 'it's a big secret' approach and then bail out of the discussion because people had something to say about it
Not everyone knows you work in the Harties area besides, us humans are known for climbing into cars and moving around up to a considerable radius which means that you could be road cruising anywhere in the country.
With that reply I got you'd swear I was asking you for GPS coordinates.
We are serious about reptile observations and don't appreciate these games. As S4A said, this could've been interesting
Okay so if everyone is supposed to know where everyone else works then that would be amazing.
If the localities are so secret then possibly we should not print any field guides because Fitzsimons gives actual localities for every single species listed.
Well if the photos are so grainy (your words) that we cannot even make out a white stripe on a grey snake then posting them is not much help.
If you are not here to teach anybody anything then was the post just to brag or was there another purpose we are not aware of. How interesting can a topic be that does not teach us anything? What we have learnt is that these snakes occur in South Africa and some get killed on the roads.
I don't even know who you are, let alone where you live, work or drive around at night. If you think this entire group of people on the forum are going to trek out to where ever you found these snakes, you are mistaken. If I wanted to use Google to check up on your post, I would rather be using one of those other forums where people don't know how to post an item.
You don't identify your own findings and then call everyone who tries to, a so-called expert!
Google is a search engine. It is not there to teach us anything. It helps people find information, however accurate or inaccurate, on the internet
Serpy wrote:This has been blown completely out of proportion again.. Why is it that so many of us have such hot tempers when it comes to things like this?
I don't know who you are. I don't know who you think you are... but obviously you think everyone does. Sorry. For you.
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