One of the Indian Elephants (Elephas maximus indicus) we encountered driving through the forests in the Western Ghats in Karnataka, India. This one was making a big deal out of it all, making a lot of sound and throwing vegetation up in the air.
This was a really cool snake to see! A Yellow-Green Cat Snake we found near the end of our time in India a few years ago. The Boiga genus has a relatively mild toxin, which is not likely an emergency but still something to be avoided.
One of a handful of Bamboo Vipers (Craspedocephalus gramineus) we found on a night hike in the hills of southern India.
This is a large Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus) that we found in the Western Ghats of India a few years ago. The photo isn’t great, but we weren’t taking any chances with this animal.
One of several Indian Vinesnakes spotted out after heavy rain in the Western Ghats a few years back.
Yellow-Green Cat Snake with Nova Inventa on a trip to the Western Ghats in India, 2023.
Karnataka, India 2023
One of the Malabar Pitvipers we saw on night hikes in rainforests of Karnataka, India. Convergently, they were very similar in appearance and behavior to arboreal vipers I’ve seen in Central and South America.
One of several Bamboo Vipers found on steep hillsides in Karnataka, India, a couple of years back.
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.
