I was curious about the turtle we encountered, so I did some digging. I thought it might be a Painted Turtle, but it appears to be an Eastern River Cooter. This one is big, but they actually get about 25% bigger.
Spotted this lizard (gecko?) by chance as it was quite well camouflaged amongst the rocks on the class five Gully Trail at Burringurrah (Mt Augustus) in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
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Porch pet,
This little fellow lived under our skiff, and was feed crumbs and water. No idea if it took to the crumbs but it liked the water and modelled with some joy... Am oblivious to what specie it may be.
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This is by far the biggest Australian native monitor lizard I have ever seen. It was about 2m from nose tip to hindquarters! They are usually about 2m long, including the tail.
The Werribee Open Range zoo is for exotic creatures. What were these two doing there? The lizard is a blue tongue, and the snake is almost certainly a tiger snake.
Tiger snakes are one of the most venomous snakes on the planet, but have solid teeth (not fangs) and spray venom on the macerated victim from glands at the back of the throat. There is an antivenene, but it's made using horse protein, and I'm allergic to horses.
This pair were within a couple of feet of the edge of the tourist walking path.
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Pygmy short-horned lizard. I found this in the desert near the Utah-Idaho border. It was very docile and I was able to pick it up and look at it, then set it down.
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