Finally got round to putting some photos from India on here! Apologies for the lack of accompanying info. These photos are taken from all over India, please ask if you want to know localities.
Start with a few frogs from Agumbe Rainforest Research Station
Indirana sp?
Another Indirana sp.
Same one in stealth mode
Bronzed frog Hylarana temporalis
Night frog Nyctibatrachus sp. (note the diamond shaped pupil)
Polypedates sp.
Blue-eyed bush frog Raorchestes luteolis. Very photogenic little fogs!
(irritating bit of dirt on his chin)
Trimmeresurus malabaricus (correction, Craspedocephalus)
Torrent frog Micryxalis sp., toot-flagging species
Female Western Ghats flying lizard Draco dussumieri posturing after an encounter with a male
Male displaying with patagium extended
Close-up of a female
Getting festive in the forest
Ant-mimicking spider Myrmarachne sp
Hump-nosed pit viper Hypnale hypnale. Hump-nosed pit vipers have recently been shown to be responsible for a significant portion of serious envenomings in their range, bites having been previously misidentified as Echis carinatus. Though lots of people I spoke to on plantations had been bitten by these with no lasting effects.
Wolf snake Lycodon aulicus
Herping in Kerala
Common vine snake Ahaetulla nasuta
One-horned rhino, Assam
Medo pit viper Viridovipera medoensis
My first wild king cobra, managed to get a couple of photos amid the excitement
Deep in Arunarchal Pradesh
False Cobra Pseudoxenodon macrops
Collared Black-headed Snake Sibynophis collaris
Himalayan Keelback (Rhabdophis himalayanus)
Juvenile Red-necked keelback Rhabdophis subminiatus
Fed the leeches, spent a week in hospital with wild fever
Khasi Hills Trinket Snake "Elaphe" frenata, I'm sure this is no longer Elaphe
Undescribed sp??
Community-based snakebite epidemiology survey
Gaur, the largest species of wild cattle in the world
Ornate flying snake Crysopelia ornata
Speckled wolf snake Lycodon jara
Banded krait "rescued" and kept in a wire cage
Striped keelback Amphiesma stolatum
Banded kukri snake Oligodon arnensis
Slender coral snake Calliophis melanurus
Russell's viper Daboia russelii
Young D. russelii
Ready for venom extraction
Rom Whitaker and Gerry Martin demonstrating safe procedure
Ceylon cat snake Boiga ceylonensis
There have been some recent revisions to Dendrolaphis but I think this is still D. tristis
Echis carinatus
Kali, Irula snake catcher
Whitaker's ground boa Eryx whitakeri
Rom with his namesake
South Indian rock agama Psammophilus dorsalis
Hemidactylus reticulatus
Fan-throated lizard Sitana ponticeriana
At Vallam forest reserve in Chennai we found at least 12 species of scorpion in a 1km squared area. This one is undescribed
Streaked kukri snake Oligodon taeniolata
Tomopterna breviceps
Narrow-mouthed frog Microhyla sp.
And a few from Sri Lanka...
Large Water monitor Varanus salvator
Olive ridley sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea, I think?
Spectacled cobra Naja naja
Did a few handling sessions with rescue centres
This young elephant managed to get stuck in a waterhole, it took us 4 hours to free him
Fishermen on traditional poles above the reef
Sat 20 Apr - 20:26
