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I don't usually photograph the captive gators at the alligator farm, but I really liked this guys' expression and the light on the water.
Taken: Feb 2nd, 2008, Hevel Lachish, Central Israel.
For more pictures & information see the "Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Israel".
I found out that male green iguanas can take on orange color seasonally. This one was particularly orange.
While hunting hummingbirds a lizard made his way up a nearby tree. He is pretty big - over a foot in length.
New Mexico Ridge Nose Rattlesnake - One of the stunning snakes featured at the Chiricahua Desert Museum.
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Crocodyllus Johnstoni
Lake Argyle
Kununurra, The Kimberley
The many small islands in Lake Argyle are predator free breeding areas allowing the Freshwater crocodile population to grow to an estimated 35,000 in 2010. This is the highest density of freshwater crocodiles in Australia
Rescued from clearing operations on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. One of Australia's deadliest snakes makes for a nerve-wracking photo shoot! I took these shots in our backyard - we had the snake under observation for a couple of days as it had a tail injury. We released it back into the wild shortly after these shots were taken.
Some photographs taken during the recent MCC visit to the Butterfly and Insect World in Midlothian:
A resident in the reptile house. I forgot to photograph the information sign revealing exactly what kind of reptile this is. Does anyone else remember?
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Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 3800 species,[1] ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains. The group, traditionally recognized as the suborder Lacertilia, is defined as all extant members of the Lepidosauria (reptiles with overlapping scales), which are neither sphenodonts (i.e., tuatara) nor snakes – they form an evolutionary grade.[2] While the snakes are recognized as falling phylogenetically within the Toxicofera clade from which they evolved, the Sphenodonts are the sister group to the Squamates, the larger monophyletic group, which includes both the lizards and the snakes.
Lizards typically have feet and external ears, while snakes lack both of these characteristics. However, because they are defined negatively as excluding snakes, lizards have no unique distinguishing characteristic as a group. Lizards and snakes share a movable quadrate bone, distinguishing them from the sphenodonts, which have a more primitive and solid diapsid skull. Many lizards can detach their tails to escape from predators, an act called autotomy, but this ability is not shared by all lizards. Vision, including color vision, is particularly well developed in most lizards, and most communicate with body language or bright colors on their bodies as well as with pheromones.
The adult length of species within the suborder ranges from a few cm for chameleons like Brookesia micra and geckos like Sphaerodactylus ariasae to nearly 3 m (9.8 ft) in the case of the largest living varanid lizard, the Komodo Dragon. Some extinct varanids reached great size. The extinct aquatic mosasaurs reached 17 m (56 ft), and the giant monitor Megalania prisca is estimated to have reached perhaps 7 m (23 ft).
Le lucertole hanno una testa piatta e triangolare, il tronco piatto e una lunga coda. Sono per lo più quadrupedi, anche con zampe non evidenti (negli Anguidi come l'orbettino), minuscole (negli scincidi come la Luscengola) e hanno orecchie esterne prive di padiglione auricolare (per le singole specie vedi a fondo pagina la categoria Sauri). Gli occhi hanno pupille nere e iride gialla e sono forniti di palpebre. La lingua è biforcuta e serve alla lucertola come organo di tatto e come arma per la caccia, in quanto la saliva trattiene le piccole prede di cui si nutre: insetti, larve e vermi. La lucertola possiede due robuste mascelle e due file di denti che sono tutti uguali. Tra le peculiarità di alcuni gruppi, l'autotomia, ovvero la capacità, per ingannare il predatore, di "staccare" la coda in caso di pericolo, generalmente con successiva ricrescita. La lunghezza degli adulti delle specie appartenenti a questo gruppo può variare da pochi centimetri (qualche geco dei Caraibi) fino a quasi i tre metri (drago di Komodo).
Le lucertole in genere hanno una buona resistenza agli attacchi dei predatori poiché dai test eseguiti in laboratorio, oltre a rigenerare la coda sono in grado di guarire da ferite molto estese. Inoltre sono in grado di assumere, sempre in caso di pericolo un comportamento di "falso stato di morte" conosciuto come morte apparente o tanatosi.
"Timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) which are called canebrake rattlesnakes in the Coastal Plain of the Southeast, are large, heavy bodied snakes with the characteristic rattles on the end of the tail. Adults range from 30-60 in (76-152 cm) with the record being more than 6 feet (183 cm) long. "
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We found this little reptile on the sidewalk. It ran quite fast for a moment, then stopped ... so I put it in the grass.