Call-out /Herping

Call-out /Herping

Postby MrG » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:50 pm

Got a call-out for a snake this afternoon at a friends place in Magalies and found this nice Herald snake next to the house entrance.
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Whiles there, me and the boy decided to look around a bit as I want to look for some insects to take pics from. After about 15min my son called me to hole under a rock. Well his eyes produced this very nice Snouted Cobra. ;)
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Postby Mongoose » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:19 pm

Nice one Mr G, but that snake is not a Herald.. It's a Highveld Garter snake :P
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Postby MrG » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:16 pm

And I thought what a dark Redlip ???
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Postby Bushviper » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:39 am

If it is a Highveld garter snake it is a moffie and a drag queen. I suppose then it would have been in Kimberley.
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Postby Mongoose » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:03 am

Well I never posted about this on the forums but last year November I found this Elapsoidea sundevalli media crossing the road - This is what they look like from Kimberley..

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Postby Bushviper » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:20 pm

Yes they are banded with the moffie lips.
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Postby alexander » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:30 pm

Very nice goose, i remember getting a dor 1 on SARCA.
Nice pics Mr G :D .
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Postby alexander » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:39 pm

Here it is, sorry for the bad picture:
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Postby atropos » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:49 pm

Nice pics. Damn you found in one day what what i was looking for for almost ten days.
Nice snouted. What sort of time of day was it etc.
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Postby Mongoose » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:34 pm

Alex that specimen in particular I have no clue what it is! I think it is E.s.longicauda

Will let you know what it is when I find out.
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Postby alexander » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:06 pm

Ask Marius, it had an orange rostral scale. Looked quite similar to the beaked stilleto we got there.
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Postby Mongoose » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:25 pm

Marius asked me to identify it - I saw the specimen in December when I was there.

Mike Bates has the specimen and when he checks it out he will let me know.. Has us dazzled.

The Beaked stilleto got it's fang in me!
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Postby MrG » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:49 pm

Mongoose on the Highveld Garter, are they common, where can you get more info on them? This one have been released already, but I cant get any info on them. ;)
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Postby Mongoose » Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:46 pm

Mr G I was only pulling you're leg, that snake is not a Highveld Garter snake... It does sort of resemble one though..

The highveld Garter snake is just as rare and secretive as all the other Garter snakes and there is still lots of work to be done on their taxonomy etc..I have only ever found 2 garter snakes. The other one we killed by accident in a termite mound.
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Postby MrG » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:23 am

:twisted: geez you had me going there, only took a few pics and then released it, so I worried that maybe I didnt look good enough. Eish. ;)
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