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Granted it’s been winter and things are heating up, but that’s really not an excuse, or is it?
In any case here are a collection of photographs from the last couple of weeks.
Some of these I travelled a few hundred km’s for to obtain a single photograph of a single specimen to simply then turn it back into it’s bush/ off the road/ under its rock/ out its favourite tree or back into the puddle which I temporarily plucked it from. Travelled with some nice people and met bunch of new friends along the way.
Amietia angolensis – Common River Frog
Amietophrynus gutturalis – Guttural Toad
Cacosternum boettgeri – Boetger’s Dainty Frog.
Hyperolius marmoratus marmoratus – Painted Reed Frog
Cordylus vittifer - Transvaal girdled lizard
Pachydactylus affnis – Transvaal Tick Toed Gecko
Pseudocordylus melanotus subviridis – Drakensberg Crag Lizard
Bitis gabonica – Gaboon Viper
Duberria lutrix – Common slug eater
Lycodonomorphus laevissimus – Dusky Bellied Water Snake.
Lycodonomorphus inornatus – Olive House Snake .
Philothamnus natalensis occidentalis – Western Natal Green Snake
Philothamnus hoplogaster – Common Green Snake
Philothamnus semivariegatus – Spotted Bush Snake
Psammophylax rhombeatus – Rhombic Skaapsteker
Bradypodion caeruleogula – uMlalazi dwarf chameleon
Bradypodion setaroi – Setaro’s Dwarf Chameleon
Bradypodion thamnobates – Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon
Chamaeleo dilepis – Flap Neck Chameleon
Amietophrynus gutturalis – Guttural Toad
Amietia angolensis – Common River Frog
Below individuals were found in the same locality not that far from one another.
Hyperolius marmoratus marmoratus – Painted Reed Frog
Juvenile
Cacosternum boettgeri – Boetger’s Dainty Frog.
Chamaeleo dilepis – Flap Neck Chameleon
Bradypodion thamnobates – Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon
Bradypodion setaroi – Setaro’s Dwarf Chameleon
Bradypodion caeruleogula – uMlalazi dwarf chameleon
One of the lesser known Braydpodion from Northern Kwa Zulu Natal, this species occurs in two or three very isolated patches of forest. I've been looking for this species close on two years.
Forgive the photo but for size reference, and yes that’s what your face will
look like after searching for one chameleon for two days.
Size reference.
Pseudocordylus melanotus subviridis – Drakensberg Crag Lizard
Cordylus vittifer - Transvaal girdled lizard
Pachydactylus affnis – Transvaal Tick Toed Gecko
Philothamnus natalensis occidentalis – Western Natal Green Snake
Philothamnus hoplogaster – Common Green Snake.
Philothamnus semivariegatus – Spotted Bush Snake
Lycodonomorphus laevissimus – Dusky Bellied Water Snake
Psammophylax rhombeatus – Rhombic Skaapsteker, Natal Midlands
Lycodonomorphus inornatus – Olive Snake.
Duberria lutrix – Common slug eater
Philothamnus hoplogaster – Common Green Snake
Psammophylax rhombeatus – Rhombic Skaapsteker Gauteng.
Female covering her eggs below come concrete.
Rather unimpressed.
The sad truth...
Bitis gabonica - Gaboon Viper
Well it was once, St Lucia.
