Winter's Green. Red-tailed Racer, Gonyosoma oxycephalum, ARTIS Amsterdam Zoo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The weather since New Year's Eve has been singularly dark here with lots of low-hanging clouds and day-mists. And rainy drizzle. So I didn't go out more than absolutely necessary. But this morning I was drawn to the Reptile House in ARTIS, Amsterdam's fine zoo.
It was so dark that even the Butterflies in the beautiful Butterfly House were asleep, but in the Reptile House its denizens were visible but lethargic.
Here's a photo of Gonyosoma oxycephalum, the south-east-asian Red-tailed Racer. I've seen them in the wild, but never up close; they tend to live high up in trees. Our Racer is not venomous, so perhaps some time I should try to coax one into my hands... Of course, I couldn't do so today through the glass of its cage. But Olymp snapped this photo.
Winter's Green. Red-tailed Racer, Gonyosoma oxycephalum, ARTIS Amsterdam Zoo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The weather since New Year's Eve has been singularly dark here with lots of low-hanging clouds and day-mists. And rainy drizzle. So I didn't go out more than absolutely necessary. But this morning I was drawn to the Reptile House in ARTIS, Amsterdam's fine zoo.
It was so dark that even the Butterflies in the beautiful Butterfly House were asleep, but in the Reptile House its denizens were visible but lethargic.
Here's a photo of Gonyosoma oxycephalum, the south-east-asian Red-tailed Racer. I've seen them in the wild, but never up close; they tend to live high up in trees. Our Racer is not venomous, so perhaps some time I should try to coax one into my hands... Of course, I couldn't do so today through the glass of its cage. But Olymp snapped this photo.