Hi, I am looking for a place to stay in Durban, near Kloof/Gillits from the 3rd to the 10th January 2016. I will be doing movement experiments for my research project on frogs that will be captured and released. Please let me know if anyone is willing to lend me a room, I'm happy to put a small amou...

Looks like Clicking Stream Frog, they are native. You probably heard them after the rain.

You can also watch them eat gravid scorpions.
You can blame survivor sensationalism TV programs for creating a market for these types of things.

Just an update:

Site is starting to pick up, although not many reptiles being added, it would be nice to get some more records and help with identification. Quite a few people joined at first but haven't come back, but it should be more interesting now.

Nice finds, those scorpions are of the same species, just different genders.

Just to add, i know they are experimenting with these strategies in Noordhoek , but that road is perpendicular to the wetland and not amongst the residential areas. It is a high mortality zone so should be good to see what comes of it.

I seemed to have missed this topic last year. I do not think that providing tunnels or toad proofing road sides is a realistic solution, well especially in residential areas. Firstly the toads often use the roads to migrate towards their breeding ponds as they are the easiest terrain to move across,...

Nice shots, especially the Leptotyphlops.

They're cryptic images, if you stare long enough you will see the picture.

what's Parabuthus planicauda? Can't find it.

Bufo=>Amietophrynus
Afrana=>Amietia
some more but books are quite up to date

its vaild here:
http://www.cites.org/common/com/NC/2006/E-NC2006-Fa-05.pdf
but then so is Kinixys belliana domerguei which was apparently brought over to Madagascar by man.

Sorry guys, got mixed up, the Eastern one (K. b. belliana) is the one we get down here. But there are two disjunct distributions, one in the east and one in the south east. I can see from the site that they recognise the south eastern distribution as a separate species (zombensis), this is possibly ...

That is definitely a Bell's Hinged Tortoise, the markings are quite distinct. It's distribution seems to border your area, so I think it is K. b. nogueyi From Bill's book: K. b. belliana (Eastern) has usually 5 claws on each forefoot, while K. b. nogueyi (Western, and I assume South africa) usually ...

Those are stunning!