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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 15, 2014 - 07:18pm PT
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I wish there were a few more of these guys around here.
Snakes are active all twelve months here. Some seem to hibernate. Some don't.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Nov 15, 2014 - 09:00pm PT
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On a recent MTB trail
Susan
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perswig
climber
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Nov 16, 2014 - 04:07am PT
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Dale
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 16, 2014 - 06:56am PT
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This is my new buddy. The pattern is like a fingerprint, no two alike. He finally ate one of the pinkies I got him 2 days ago.
I fed the other 2 pinkies to my geckos. My female gecko didn't know what she was doing, having only eaten crickets. She ate it ass end first. The poor mouse squealed until she swallowed the head (and then a muffled squeal).
It was grotesque, but,.... that is nature's way.
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perswig
climber
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Nov 16, 2014 - 07:30am PT
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When you first said 'pinkie', I thought it was from dudes who owed you $.
Dale
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Nov 16, 2014 - 03:41pm PT
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When I was in first year U we had small boa - 2 or 3 feet - caged in the biology lab. One of the grad students fed it a white rat just before Xmas break, which made it very happy and bulgy. (Do snakes belch?) Then he generously left a second rat in the cage to keep the boa happy over the holidays. Of course they turned down the heat over the holidays, and the rat ate the snake.
So much for the Christmas spirit.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 16, 2014 - 04:16pm PT
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Fossil,
unfortunately that happens too often with inexperienced herps.
Pet shops warn that prey can fight back with tragic results.
When I fed adult mice to my king snake I'd bonk them, better for all parties.
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall
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Nov 16, 2014 - 04:58pm PT
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Nov 16, 2014 - 08:15pm PT
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I guess I should tell you the fate of the rat that ate the boa. The students made him an honorary member of TriBeta Honorary Biological Society and put him out to stud. The grad student developed a pathological fear of rats, snakes and biology professors.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Nov 19, 2014 - 06:51am PT
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+1 to mongrel and willoughby
Keep in mind that PNAS publications may not have had real peer review like Science or Nature or other more specialized journals. If the submitter is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (which does require a successful track record of peer reviewed publications), they can use PNAS as a forum to get attention for work that would not pass a rigorous peer review challenge. It's a short-cut for successful researchers to get publications based on accumulated reputation and community contacts rather than solely on the merits of the work. I'm not familiar with the following person's opinions, but it expands on these ideas:
http://occamstypewriter.org/stevecaplan/2011/10/23/peer-review-and-the-ole-boys-network/
From the PNAS website, only about 25% of the publications are direct contributions from members of NAS, so the rest are peer reviewed to maintain the perception of legitimacy.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 19, 2014 - 08:52am PT
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So I'm trudging up the 6500' climb to Monarch Divide* in August (I know)
when I hear a grasshopper buzzing just like they had been all along. But
this one sounded louder. Maybe it was a swarm? I had just trudged from
the sun into the shade so I stopped to let my eyes adjust. Then it dawned
on my hypoxic and dehydrated brain that this 'grasshopper' didn't quite
sound right. It must have taken me 10 seconds to finally locate him about
6' off the trail.
"Mt Attitude! So good to see you, too!"
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*In SEKI
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 19, 2014 - 09:07am PT
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Wow! "Don't tread on me" indeed.
GREAT shot. You can easily see why they are called pit vipers.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Nov 19, 2014 - 11:33am PT
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That is a nice shot Rielly!! Here is a southern Pacific Mission Trails style for ya
If you look close you can see the trail the sucker left.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Nov 19, 2014 - 07:29pm PT
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Great shot, Reilly! You can even see the keeled scales. Handsome critter.
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MH2
climber
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Nov 19, 2014 - 07:59pm PT
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That snakes has CURVES. Wild, attention-getting, full-of-meaning curves.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Feb 12, 2015 - 07:51pm PT
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What's not to like about something named Crotalus horridus?
This one was a keeper for sure. Only the 2nd live one I've seen after 26 years of tromping around Costa Rica. The other one was at night crossing a dirt road. This one was coiled up at the base of a tree, apparently dead asleep as there was never any tongue action. I went off the trail to look for a bird and stumbled across this guy.
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