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Are there yellow and black banded snakes or reptiles expected to be found in Iowa? This one was found in a sandy area at Wickiup Hill Nature Center.
I guess this must be the tail of a bullsnake. The largest snake in Iowa. The front end looks different from the back end but I didn't get a look at the front of this one because the rest of this snake was underground.
At first I thought this was the tail of a bullsnake but it turns out that the eastern hognose snake comes in a variety of colors and it is a definite possibility.
....a green green green snake winding around a branch. Seen in the Aquarium of the Berlin Zoo. This is Morelia viridis, a "green tree python" found in New Guinea, Indonesia, and Cape York Peninsula in Australia.
A snake is a scaly, limbless, elongate reptile from the order Squamata. A literary word for snake is serpent (from *serp-, "to creep").
Serpent however is commonly used in a specifically mythic or religious context, signifying a snake that is to be regarded not as a mundane natural phenomenon nor as an object of scientific zoology, but as the bearer of some symbolic value.
Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is a Banded Water Snake, a non-venomous snake.
I was on one of the boardwalks at Highlands Hammock State Park particularly looking for snakes but I never spotted one. On the way back to the road I passed a family going the other way. No sooner had they passed than the mother declared, "There's a snake!" I praised her powers of observation; meanwhile I'm still looking, thinking "Where?" but too embarrassed to ask since even the couple's two little kids could see it.
However, after they left I finally spotted it. At first I thought this might be a Cottonmouth, which I've now learned is a common mistake. According to the Florida Museum website, it's easy to tell the two apart. Cottonmouths have a triangular-shaped head and a vertical pupil. If the head is viewed from above, the eyes of Cottonmouths cannot be seen while the eyes of water snakes are visible; Cottonmouths have elliptical pupils and water snakes have round pupils. Also, unlike water snakes, Cottonmouths have a facial pit between the nostril and the eye.
The boardwalk somewhat limited my view and composition.
Press "z" to zoom.
Nikon D500, 200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6
f/5.6, 250.0 mm
1/160, ISO 280
Exposure +1/3 EV
Hand held, (possibly) supported on boardwalk railing, no flash
The Blackfoot River is a tributary of the Snake River in the state of Idaho. The river is named for the Blackfoot Indians even though they never lived in the area. The region the Blackfoot River flows through is covered in all its lowest portions with flows of basalt which had their origin in the Blackfoot-Gem Valley lava field. The Blackfoot River flows from open marsh and grass lands near its source into the Blackfoot Narrows. The Blackfoot Narrows traverses a desert canyon of primarily sagebrush and juniper habitat: an excellent place to view birds and fish for trout. It was first mapped by the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The water is quite muddy right now due to the spring runoff, however, the mountains won't stay this green for long. The grasses will soon fade but the river will clear. So..it's a win win place to visit!
Info from wikipedia
Diese Schlange sah ich letzte Woche in einer Ausstellung!
In der Natur hätte sie wohl keine Chance zu überleben, bedingt durch ihre Hautfarbe!
Solid Snake and Cyborg Ninja by Play Arts Kai.
Image inspired by a fight scene in MGS: Twin Snakes for the Gamecube. Snake only had the Socom in that scene, but whatever. Didn't play that version of the game because the cinematic sequences were too over the top for my taste.
Notes:
Only fx in this shot is a slight brightness and saturation enhancement to Ninja's eye. A less time consuming switch for me. :-p
An emerald tree boa at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Taken using a 50mm and 36mm extension tube.
Snakes are cold-blooded, so they regulate their body temperature by alternately basking in sunlight and seeking shade . About 2,900 snake species are known to exist, most living in the tropics.
Micrurus fulvius
An adult found moving at dusk in south central Florida. This is the most venomous snake in the United States, but its nasty reputation is ill deserved. Corals are docile, secretive snakes that spend most of their time underground where they search for other fossorial snakes and lizards as prey. Bites to humans are infrequent and are usually the result of someone either stepping on a snake barefoot or by intentionally handling the snake. As the old saying goes, "Red next to black is a friend of jack, red next to yellow can kill a fellow."