ctenotus pantherinus

Anyone got any idea what sort this one is? Cheers.

So it's winter. I hate winter. It's cold, wet, bleak and worst of all, all of the reptiles around me become inactive. Fortunately over the past couple weeks I managed to escape some of winter. These are some finds from the Simpson Desert of far western Qld. Disclaimer: It is is illegal to...

First up a little freshie, there are plenty around the lakes at the moment Freshwater Crocodile by R. Francis, on Flickr I was very excited to see this Black-palmed monitor, unfortunately the bugger disappeared in to the rocks before getting any other photos Black-palmed Monitor by R...

Ill start from last night and go backwards a few weeks. First up last night was a young Olive python. Olive Python by R. Francis, on Flickr I then found a DOR black headed python which i was disapointed about as i really wanted to see one. I then came across this little mulga snake...

Recently I spent 3 weeks volunteering in the Eastern Kimberley with a scientific project radio tracking monitors, both Varanus panoptes and Varanus mertensi. The research was being conducted at El Questro Station a popular tourist destination in the East Kimberley and involved many different...

Hi all, After a brief hiatus I'm going to try and post a little more, upload more stuff to flickr and my other site (that i'm not allowed to have in my signature), or, in the very least, catch up and write up a few of the field herping threads that should have gone up here and there. I...

Hey Everyone. Just got back from the 5 day trip in the Goldfields. We ended up finding 25 different species in 5 days, on average 4-5 a day. Sand Monitor. We saw 4 of these monitors whiles driving into the Park. Dragons. All the Dragons we found were all new to me, so I am not 100% sure...

Does anyone here keep C. pantherinus or know of anyone who does? Very keen on obtaining this species

This post includes photos of the other animals that I encountered while travelling through the central western Queensland. I always enjoy seeing these beautiful Yellow-spotted Monitors (Varanus panoptes). They often seem fearless and I can walk along with them without them running away...

I've just returned from a trip to the Gulf of Carpentaria, north of Mount Isa. I think the highlights were the olive pythons (we found two) and Cryptoblepharus zoticus (Cryptoblepharus is my favourite skink genus), plus the bats. Species marked with an asterisk (*) are ones which I hadn't...

Hi all, This the final installment from my WA trip. Earlier episodes: The Pinnacles and Lesueur National Park Numbat alert! Perth Zoo Tiger snakes Into the Rat's nest Shark Bay Monkey Mia and Hamelin Pool Cape Range National Park and Exmouth In this exciting...

Hey, finally a field forum on the site. These are some photos from a fairly recent herp trip around western Queensland. The habitat is mostly semi-arid. We spent 6 days on this trip, travelling 6500km, leaving from and returning to Sydney. A total of 55 herp species were found. The first...

Unreal:) l keep a variety of reptiles, snakes and lizards...l also keep 4 garden skinks cause l think they are pretty cute with their delicate features and all....anyhow one of them looked pretty fat...really fat actually!! Today she laid 11 little pearls...cool or what!! l couldnt believe...

Hi Everyone. I am planning a trip to the centre and i would like to hear from members who have been to these places and can offer me some advice on what creatures i am likely to see, where and when. Point me in the right direction because I want to take more photos than a Japanese...

I will be picking up my new additions in the next couple of days, 4 gorgeous little panther skinks.These guys are awesome seen them for the first time the other day and had to have some. They will be my first skinks and couldn't think of a better way to start the skink collection off.They...