Friday, October 17, 2008

Animals in the Field


Here are some more animal pictures from the trip! A huge grasshopper that was exactly the color of the leaves he was sitting on (right), and a big spider called a crab spider for some reason. The first day in the field I also found a hard to find TINY (1 inch) lizard on the ground near the traps. A few days later someone else found one, and we had a chance to take some pics of the second one (below). Though we only found six snakes in the field, but I caught one of them!! It was a tiny false-coral snake. Later that day another larger one was lurking near the gate and the night guard showed it to us. That snake is the one I'm holding in the picture below. The other snake shown here is the only poisonous one found, but I was the only student to hold him! He was really big, and it was so fun to take pics of him too.




















































1 comment:

Kim said...

You were the only student to hold the poisonous snake?? Hmmm....that doesn't tell you something??