I haven't been on any significant trips in the last few weeks, just some odd animals here and there. Besides a specific trip to find Leptopelis xenodactylus - Long Toed Tree Frog a critically endangered amphibian that is restricted to flooded grasslands and marshes.
Afrixalus spinifrons - Natal Leaf Folding Frog
Male
Female with eggs
Panaspis wahlbergii - Wahlberg's snake-eyed skink
Female
Male
Afroedura pondolia - Pondo Flat Gecko
Boaedon capensis - Brown House Snake
Cacosternum nanum - Bronze Dainty Frog.
Causes rhombeatus - Rhombic Night Adder feeding on Sclerophrys gutturalis - Guttural Toad.
Always so cool seeing wild predation.
Duberria lutrix lutrix - Common Slug Eater.
Classic defensive spiral.
Top view
Ventral view.
Hemidactylus mabouia - Tropical House Gecko.
Homoroselaps dorsalis - Spotted Harlequin Snake.
Philothamnus semivariegatus - Spotted Bush Snake.
These snakes are incredibly common here are four which I've found over the last few weeks.
Leptotyphlops scutifrons - Peter's Thread Snake.
For size reference, they are tiny.
Scelotesmossambicus - Mozambique Dwarf Burrowing Skink.
Trachylepsis striata - Striped Skink.
Lycodonomorphus rufulus - Brown Water Snake
Hyperolius marmoratus marmoratus - Painted Reed Frog
Sclerophrys gutturalis - Guttural Toad
Now bare with me as I probbaly will share too many images of these amazing frogs. They're not typical Tree Frogs like other members of the genus. These frogs occour where there are very few tree's or shrubs in flooded grasslands in almost bog liek conditions. I've searched for these frogs for the last 4 years and have only ever heard a single individual call, that site is about 100kms away from where I found these so really excited about it.
The critically endangered Leptopelis xenodactylus - Long Toed Tree Frog.
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