Fieldherper.com » long http://fieldherper.com By Bryan D. Hughes, Future Darwin-Award Winner Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:21:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Longnose Snakes http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/29/longnose-snakes/ http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/29/longnose-snakes/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:54:47 +0000 Bryan http://fieldherper.com/fieldherper/?p=1002 Here are some pictures of a very common local snake, the long-nosed snake, Rhinocheilus lecontei. They have an enlarged snout (imagine that) that they use to dig out lizard eggs and sleeping whiptail lizards. These are often out when other snakes don’t want to be, for some reason, so seeing one of these as the first snake of a trip can mean it’s time to head home.

longnose snake
longnose snake
Rhinocheilus lecontei
Rhinocheilus lecontei
looking for whiptails
looking for whiptails


 

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