One of several Rainbow Boas we found moving through the layers of leaf litter covering the ground in the Peruvian Amazon. Back home, these are popular pets. In the wild, they’re every bit as colorful … but typically highly defensive and quick to bite.
A Nose Horned Viper we found in Greece a few years ago.
Brown-throated Three Toed Sloth from Costa Rica back in November. I’ve rarely seen them be more than brown blob up in binocular range, so some activity (slowly of course) was nice.
Some of the many, many Zebra-tailed Lizards from a famous beach at the southern tip of Baja California.
A Baja Ratsnake we found late at night in Baja California Sur, showing some iridescence in the camera flash.
A Malabar Pitviper from southern India a couple of years ago on a wet night in the Western Ghats. After seeing a few of them, the convergent similarities in form and behavior with new world vipers, like the eyelash vipers, is amazing.
Translucent cave millipedes were everywhere as we descended deep into a Slovenian cave, searching for an Olm.
A large Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake from southern Mexico several years ago.
A Rosy Boa from coastal Baja California Norte. These snakes are common in the steep boulder hillsides with blue-green sea in the distance.
