[-] TeachableMoment@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They are bigger and much happier thanks to our recent rain.

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Avocado and Orange (sh.itjust.works)

Grown from seed, 20 litre paint bucket for scale.

[-] TeachableMoment@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

I probably wouldn't have noticed it if some of the dry leaves had not slid down. They blend very well into tall grass too.

[-] TeachableMoment@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, that's my potato phone. In my immediate area they are very common, or at least the most visible.

I usually see them 4-5 times a week.

[-] TeachableMoment@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

This is near Sihanoukville

[-] TeachableMoment@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

I would have to agree. I have seen one glide only once. The ones I saw in southern Thailand were yellow and black. My personal theory is that some herpetologist named these when opium was legal and readily available.

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Golden Flying Snake (sh.itjust.works)

I think that is what it is. Extraordinary climbers. I find them on the second floor of the house every few months. I see them outside a few times a week. Colouration is highly variable locally. Here they are green and black.

Wikipedia and a few other sources say this

Also, it is reported to take snakes occasionally, and to avoid frogs, though frogs are also reported being eaten.

In Cambodia they always take frogs, and will strike poisonous toads, then spit them out.

[-] TeachableMoment@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Indeed, relaxed immediately.

The adults are surprisingly fast and skittish. Here's a terrible photo of part of one.

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Lovely things, quite relaxed as babies. This one was rescued from a palm tree after a storm. Another photo in body.

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Red Necked Keelback (sh.itjust.works)

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