#PitviperBeautyPageant day 7. Bothrops barnetti an endemic species from the dry forest and deserts of the northern coast of 🇵🇪. A region commonly known as Tumbesian Region.

My entry for #PitviperBeautyPageant is this wonderful Amazonian Toad-Headed Pitviper (Bothrocophias hyoprora) that I saw for several days on the trail at Tiputini

At Sturgeon Bay, it’s always snake day. It’s rattlesnake mating season and the males snacked are on the move. Rattlesnakes don’t deserve a bad rap! Please brake 4 snakes! #WorldSnakeDay

A medley of snake images for #WorldSnakeDay. Often mysterious, always interesting - some are as vibrant as the most resplendent birds whereas others are incredibly cryptic. They play many roles - The world would be a poorer place without them. Appreciate snakes.

Happy World Snake Day from the Prairie! Always love and respect your serpentine neighbors #crotalusatrox

I didn’t #WorldSnakeDay the last tweet so I’ll do a medley of a couple of the snakes from 2021! (Prairie Rattlesnake, Eastern Black-tailed Rattlesnake, Everglades Ratsnake, and Everglades Racer)

I'm sooooo proud of Bree Putman 🐍🦎🏘🔥 for winning the 2021 Semlitsch award! This is huge! Bree was an undergrad in my lab 15 years ago and is doing the most wonderful work. Bravo, Bree! #JMIH2021 HerpetologistsLeague

Are you ready for something AMAZING for Day #26 of #PitviperBeautyPageant? Behold this: 11 lb. female Eastern Diamond-backed Rattlesnake (that's a 13-gallon action packer!) She dropped a 2 lb. 💩! She had eaten an enormous 🐇! 📷 Mallory Harmel on Jekyll Island, Georgia

“The deer can be wild out here” is the strangest euphemism for “You are a woman alone outside & I’m concerned for your safety” I’ve ever heard 😵🦌

Well, I now have a new favourite academic figure 🦇💩

Some good #BatWeek (or any week, really) content for ya Birds have song, yes? And bats echolocate, but do they…sing? Yes!! There are some RAD batsong recordings in here so read along & take a listen! 🦇✨ ⁦NPR⁩, h/t ⁦Lazy Cuttlefish⁩ npr.org/sections/krulw…

Love this place especially when it’s wet. LA River after the rain.

Bat ‘winning by quite a lot’ in New Zealand’s Bird of the Year contest theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…

Thrilled to be giving my first ever conference talk in my own home town at #NENHC2022 🐍

Emotional support Gaboon viper By Joe and Sadie Furman 💞

A great article on the increasing # of encounters with rattlesnakes in California, including info from Dr. Hayley Layne Crowell 🐍🦎☀️'s research! sfgate.com/centralcoast/a…

I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been puzzling over today. This is the moment I've been waiting for and I've decided to never close any tabs again

I’ve seen bears in Avon too 😂 My field sites are so small but I’ve seen two adults and a TON of scat so there’s definitely a healthy bear population there!

Mark your calendars!

Thrilled to be presenting on my CT copperhead research at #BOPV4 this weekend. Stop by my poster to learn more about urbanization and copperheads in the Northeast!