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Gato Moteado

(10,055 posts)
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 09:02 PM Oct 4

two frogs and a snake

ever go through periods where you just aren't thrilled by any of your work? i'm in one of those periods. but i try to get out and shoot, anyway. i have the scratched up, bloody mosquito bites to prove it.

here are two frogs (possibly the same specimen on two different nights) and a snake. see if you can identify the frog and snake species here...i'll buy a beer for the first person to identify either...but you gotta get to costa rica to collect your prize:





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CaliforniaPeggy

(155,347 posts)
1. These are vivid and alive photos, my dear Gato! Superb shooting in both.
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 09:16 PM
Oct 4

I have no idea what species they are! But I sure can admire your work.

SWBTATTReg

(25,753 posts)
4. Nice! I am not going to even try to ID these guys, but I do definitely enjoy the pics! Keep bringing us your
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 10:07 PM
Oct 4

photos, I love them!

ShazzieB

(21,756 posts)
7. The frog song that always pops up first for me is Joy to the World by 3 Dog Night!
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 12:03 AM
Oct 5
Jeremiah was a bullfrog 🐸
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine

Singin' joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me...


Dang it, now that song will be stuck in my head till I fall asleep!

ShazzieB

(21,756 posts)
6. I searched the first frog pic using Google Lens.
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 11:54 PM
Oct 4

Google says it's a Rosenberg's tree frog (Boana rosenbergi). I can't take any credit since Google did all the work, and I can't get to Costa Rica to claim the prize anyway.

Maybe someone else would like to have a go at the snake.

eppur_se_muova

(40,300 posts)
8. I could have sworn that whenever I had seen a snake like that -- slender body; wider, diamond-shaped head -- it had been
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 01:08 AM
Oct 5

referred as a leaf snake. A Google search for that term only led to piles of Google suckage.

By apparent coincidence, buried among all the wrong answers, and the ones so far off topic you could only say "that's not right -- it's not even wrong", was a pic of a slender green snake known as a vine snake. Apparently the name is used for different species in eastern and western hemispheres, but they are very similar in appearance. Here's a pic:



https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/29178-Oxybelis-fulgidus

Apparently, one of the defining characteristics is that it has fangs only in the rear of its mouth, so if you could check on that ...

*Lots* more pics here: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/29178-Oxybelis-fulgidus/browse_photos

Beringia

(5,221 posts)
9. I saw two Mondo centipedes on my wall really late last night
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 02:49 PM
Oct 5

I guess they assumed I was asleep and could hang out

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