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Anonymous post on August 21, 2004
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you are all interested in venomous reptiles obviously but how many of you like lizards, crocs, amphibians, aswell . what else do you like about these animals other then just keeping them as pets. any one intersted in replying please do so .
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by Phobos on August 21, 2004
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I like all reptiles & Amphibs. Snakes have always been my favorites. I've had some lizards and Amphibs but with a limited budget I spend it all on snakes.
By the way...none of what I keep in my collection I consider pets. You can take the animal out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle out of the animal.
Croc's and kin need large special enclosures as well as special care and should not be kept unless the person(s) are willing to provide the animals with what it really needs in captivity. Just my opinion.
Al
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by tj on August 21, 2004
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Snakes are by far my favorite, but I've kept lizards, and I love dart frogs. Any thing with a brilliant pattern will pretty much catch my eye. As far as crocodilians are concerned, I have the space, and feel I can care for them, but am not able to. NY state considers any crocs, whether it be an alligator or caiman,etc, an endangered species. I've applied for the ESP for a canebrake and western massasauga with no luck (keep in mind neither of these subs occur in NY), so I haven't bothered trying for any crocs. However, I do plan on trying again in the near future for both crocs and the snakes I mentioned. NY state is real tough when it comes to their endangered species permits and who they give them to, and I feel that is a good thing.
-tom
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by Snakeman1982 on August 21, 2004
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I actually got my professional start working with alligators. I knew I wanted to study biology but at the time (16) I was interested in studying sharks and sting rays. I moved down to south Florida to work with alligators and was hooked. I had caught rattlesnakes and other snakes whenever I was younger but didn't really get attached to herps until the first I sat on top of an eight foot alligator. So I worked in the Everglades for a while, moved away, and then started working down there again at a different place a couple of years later where I was in charge of taking care of about 200+ crocodilians, including American alligators, American crocodiles, juvenile Siamese crocodiles, a spectacled caiman, a couple of Nile crocs, and a Morelet's crocodile. We also had some snakes including a few venomous species. Plenty of turtles, a few Florida panthers, a Siberian tiger, a black jaguar, bobcat, and a few other mammals. SoI enjoyed that aspect of taking care of herps.
I've never personally kept any pets because I move around too much during the summers and winters and don't need the responsibility. I will however have a bachelor's degree at the end of next spring and will start my master's degree next fall. My main area of interest is systematics (classification, biogeography, and phylogenetic relationships) and I am hoping to pursue a Ph.D in that field but I still have quite a few years before that gets finished. I plan on working on Central and South American snake species.
My favorite part about herpetology is just seeing them in the wild and taking photographs. I love to see animals that I haven't seen before but studying different aspects of their life is also very awesome. I just got finished radio-tracking timber rattlesnakes all summer and it was a blast (hard work as well). I learned a lot about their physiology and how they thermoregulate. I also enjoy amphibians, other reptiles, birds, and even insects but my true love are venomous snakes and crocodilians.
Robert
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by paleoherp on August 22, 2004
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i m interested in all reptiles and all amphibians all over the world i can t say which one i like more because i m so interseted in everything . keeping them as pets is just a small part of what i like about reptiles and amphibians , the biology of these animals is fasinating i would like to be a herpetologist, also just incase you have nt noticed i also like paleoherpetology because its interesting to see how pre historic animals compare to those alive today such as venomous snakes alive 10 million years ago compared to those alive today . so i like everything in fact being interested in paleoherpetology at the same time will make you even more interesting because you have an interest most peaple who should have dont.
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by Buzztail1 on August 22, 2004
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I brought my first snake home in 1963.
My parents were somewhat appalled!
They then realized how much happier they should have been back when the only things I was bringing home in my pockets were the toads which were so abundant in our neighborhood at the time.
My parents tell about how I taught myself to read well before I was old enough to go to school so that I would be able to read snake, and other wildlife, books.
Over the forty-some-odd years since I brought home that first snake, I have spent almost all of my "free time" involved with reptiles and amphibians in one way or another. Whether that be wading through chilly streams in Northern Virginia to pull up rocks from the bottom to expose Queen Snakes; skuffing through a branch (a small backwoods North Carolina mountain area stream) collecting bright red salamanders; noosing green anoles in Bermuda; chasing water monitors on Singapore; or any of the many other memorable herping occasions I have had all over the world, I love finding herps in the wild and seeing them on display in the world's zoos.
In the mid-70s I started giving public school presentations and have since expanded that to include private interest groups such as fire departments, medical facilities, energy providers, scout groups, etc.
The SHHS has helped me make contacts which have furthered my interests in educating the public on the necessary part that venomous snakes play in ecology. I will always be chipping away at the huge block of ignorance and misinformed ill-will that surrounds the entire subject of venomous reptiles.
Thanks for asking,
Karl H. Betz
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by AquaHerp on August 23, 2004
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I also enjoy all the herp species. As well, I have a fascination for all of the animal taxa.
Hey Robert, hope you had fun radio-tracking the horridus. I spend many a summer in the forest with those snakes. Great animal. Tough to locate even with the transmitters!!!!
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by Snakeman1982 on August 23, 2004
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Hey Doug,
Yeah, the snakes blend in very well, especially in the deciduous forests where the leaves and fallen branches assist in the camoflauge. Sometimes you will know that there is one within 5 or so feet in front of you but you still can't spot them. They just sit there so cryptically and wait for you to leave.
We also occasionally find them in the trees. My first day tracking I found one of the snakes about 25 feet in an overstory. Not much has been done on studying their canopy foraging. They are so interesting.
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by AquaHerp on August 24, 2004
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I have seen a few in the limbs, although not all that high up. Where did you do your work, if I might ask? Feel free to e-mail e off list if this is getting too far off the beaten path for others on this thread.
As for favorite animals, I think that eveyone has their secret little favorites for one reason or another. For me, I really have to stress that I do love them all. I even still get a thrill from the garter snakes, and I am surrounded by a plethora of wonderful species every day including some of the oddball and rare like Mang vipers. But I suppose it stems from my childhood imagination and maybe the pictures in the "Golden Book" of snakes, but I hold a real fondness for cottonmouths of all species. Just something about those little dudes that does it for me.
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by bush_viper17 on August 24, 2004
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I like all animals. Yesterday I went looking for bats and bears. I caught a bat (Eastern pipistrel/brown myotis???) and I saw a black bear on the road. I got out of the car and ran after it but it was too fast to keep up with. I also bought a halloween crab. I love any animal but reptiles and amphibians need (In my opinion) all the help they can get. And another reason for likeing reptiles the most is you cant get the (Your Crazy!!!) reaction from too many other animals.lol
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