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#1711203

Jonas77
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Costa rica

I just found this part of all the forums and I like field herping. I’ll drop in later to show some pics of swedish animals and from my trips to Costa rica.
Its free for anyone else to do the same.

04/21/08 12:56pm

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Craigh
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Message To: Jonas77 In reference to Message Id: 1711203

Costa rica

Cool... Looking forward to you pics....

04/21/08 01:38pm

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Jonas77
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Message To: Craigh In reference to Message Id: 1711239

Costa rica

Ok, lets try this thing... I just realized I dont have that many of my pictures on the net, so I’ll post what I have for now and I might get back with some more another time.
I guess you can play with the picture address to se them in a larger format (they shrink to fit the page here).

First a few Vipera berus here in sweden:

Now Costa rica, starting with a gladiator frog (Hyla rosenbergi)

And one more

Then one of the leaf litter frogs, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri

One more

Here is a cat-eyed snake, Leptodeira (septentrionalis?)

one more

And an eyelash pit viper, Bothriechis schlegelii

And a small unknown snake (to me at least)

And a Norops sp. in the mouth of a mexican mouse opossum (Marmosa mexicana)

There are some more (it should be as I came home with 2000+ pictures...), but they are not on the net yet.

/ jonas

04/21/08 02:11pm

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Craigh
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Message To: Jonas77 In reference to Message Id: 1711266

Costa rica

Keep posting :) the Vipera berus is gorgeous and the eyelash pit viper are always amazing to look at.. Thanks for posting them really enjoy looking at anything from other countries in there natural habitat :)

04/21/08 03:18pm

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Jonas77
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Message To: Craigh In reference to Message Id: 1711338

Costa rica

Thanks. The berus is great to take pictures of, this time of year they spend a few weeks around their hibernation pits and are really easy to find as long as you know some of these places. They share the pits with Natrix natrix, I just didnt have a good picture of them.

04/21/08 03:23pm

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TIMSNAKR
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Message To: Jonas77 In reference to Message Id: 1711347

Costa rica

the last unknown snake looks like a vine snake.
Nice pics

Tim

04/23/08 07:03am

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Jonas77
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Message To: TIMSNAKR In reference to Message Id: 1713200

Costa rica

Hi, I thought so too, but most of the vine snakes in CR have extendet snout, this didnt. Even the short-snout ones look different.

04/23/08 11:46am

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Jonas77
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Message To: Jonas77 In reference to Message Id: 1713395

Costa rica

If anything I would guess its a "grass snake" of som sort.

04/23/08 12:10pm

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Gottee guy
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Message To: Jonas77 In reference to Message Id: 1713416

Costa rica

it’s some sort of vine snake,not grass snake.

05/10/08 10:44pm

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Jonas77
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Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1731509

Costa rica

I really dont think so. Here is a picture of the same snake:

Its more likely one of the parrot snakes, Leptophis sp.

05/11/08 07:04am

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JP18
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Message To: Jonas77 In reference to Message Id: 1731683

Costa rica

it looks like a boomslang to me

05/11/08 08:04pm

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TIMSNAKR
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Message To: JP18 In reference to Message Id: 1732318

Costa rica

I know now.
Parrot Snake
Leptophis ahaetulla

:D

Tim

05/12/08 12:06am

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Luvlizards
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Message To: TIMSNAKR In reference to Message Id: 1732596

Costa rica

You take really beautiful pictures Jonas77 . . . I have to admit, the lizard in the mouth of the possum made me laugh out loud . . . the possum looks so much like he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar! Thanks for sharing!

05/15/08 07:43am

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Jonas77
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Message To: Luvlizards In reference to Message Id: 1736020

Costa rica

He (she?) really was! When we had our head lamps on him/her, he/she froze compleatly. If we got tired of that pose, just turn them off for a few seconds and than on again, and the opossum had moved a tad...

05/15/08 08:53am

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Jonas77
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Message To: Jonas77 In reference to Message Id: 1736067

Costa rica

Ok, more pix now that I found a good site to upload at. I didnt have the energy to post-process them, so its basically straight out of the camera. And again, copy the picture adress to see them full size.

A norops (polylepis?)

same frog again

a treefrog tadpole, probably Agalychnis spurrelli

A Ameiva quadrilineata

Some cool leaf-mimic

Anteater with a bee on the ear

A favourite: Gonatodes albogularis

A tapier (needs a tissue) eating ripe figs (dropping down on our tent...)

two more schlegelis

05/17/08 03:47pm