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Post by schnautzr on Sept 13, 2009 1:15:23 GMT
We only get eastern cottontails here.
Snakes around here are pretty limited, too...garter snakes, king snakes, and possibly bull snakes. I think it was a bull snake I saw, anyway...I saw this big black six foot snake fall out of a tree while I was biking one day. Legend has it there are copperheads in these parts, and ever so often I hear a story about someone's encounter. My brother claims to have beaten one to death with a stick.
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Post by mantooth02 on Sept 13, 2009 2:31:45 GMT
I've seen a wide variety of snakes. Garters, water snakes, ribbon snakes, ring-necks, Northern browns, milk snakes and even copperheads and timber rattlesnakes. NY only has three venomous species. The copperheads live in the southern portion of the state, I used to live in their range and saw them often but moved out of that area over a decade ago. Since then I've only seen one venomous snake, a timber rattlesnake. It along with the Massasauga rattler are the other two NY venomous snakes and are both endangered and difficult to find. We have quite a few turtle species but I've only ever seen Eastern box and painted turtles and common snappers. Among lizards NY only has four species. The eastern fence and Italian wall lizards and the five-line and coal skinks. I've never seen any of them and the only one living within my home range is the coal skink.
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 13, 2009 3:25:11 GMT
As far as the lizards, turtles, and tuataras go, we don't have tuataras (surprise, I know), and we've got five-lined skinks EVERYWHERE. If I travel south several hours I can find several anoles, but they don't live in these parts. Eastern box turtles are very common around here. My dad has found the occasional gecko, I believe, but I've never found one. Might as well finish up the amniotes, lol. We've got at least one species of tree frog (I've never found one myself but I have been shown some in my yard). Toads are very common, especially when it rains. You'll literally drive down the road on a wet night and see them hopping all over the place, and the next morning you'll find one squished every ten or twenty feet apart. I've never seen a salamander in these parts nor any other non-anuran amphibian. Amazing how a discussion about running away from large theropods has sparked a debate about dinosaur birds and a conversation cataloguing local wildlife.
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Post by mantooth02 on Sept 13, 2009 21:00:08 GMT
We only have one tree frog as well, the gray tree frog and they're pretty common around here. We also have spring peepers, bull and green frogs, leopard and pickerel and one of my personal favorites the wood frog among others. As far as toads go the only one we have locally is the American but in the state there are also Fowlers and Eastern spadefoot. We have quite a few salamanders. Mudpuppies which I've seen a few times, spotted, mole, blue spotted and a few other mole salamanders. Spotted are the most common, tigers live in the state but are threatened. Among the smaller species we have eastern newts in abundance, red back and two line salamanders.
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 13, 2009 21:55:53 GMT
Man, you make New York sound interesting!
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Post by mantooth02 on Sept 14, 2009 0:03:55 GMT
Thanks, I'm pretty proud of my local wildlife but it is certainly lacking in larger mammals. Historically wolves, cougars, elk and moose all lived in the area but were wiped out. Moose live in the state but only in the Adirondack Mountains. It's man's fault for the lack of wildlife.
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 14, 2009 0:24:33 GMT
I'm told there used to be brown bears out here. Could have sworn I saw a dead one on the side of the road on the interstate one day, but I was told it was probably my imagination and that someone had probably dropped some sort of furniture covered in a cloth.
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Post by mantooth02 on Sept 14, 2009 19:37:36 GMT
According to this map brown bears never lived in Indiana but black bears used to.
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 14, 2009 20:03:50 GMT
I was going to say "maybe black" but was pretty sure it was brown. Thanks for checking. That also confirms that the "carcass" I saw on the interstate was indeed furniture with a canvas of sorts over it.
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Post by mantooth02 on Sept 14, 2009 20:14:06 GMT
I was going to say "maybe black" but was pretty sure it was brown. Thanks for checking. That also confirms that the "carcass" I saw on the interstate was indeed furniture with a canvas of sorts over it. Or a brown phase black bear.
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Post by hermes888 on Dec 26, 2009 18:58:54 GMT
You must have so much fun writing these. Climb a falling building to save your sister? Summon a Pokemon to fight the monsters? WTF?
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Post by hermes888 on Dec 26, 2009 19:00:08 GMT
Speaking of dead animals: I once saw a dead sea turtle on the beach. It smelled like hell, but it was cool to see!
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Post by schnautzr on Dec 26, 2009 20:37:23 GMT
You must have so much fun writing these. Climb a falling building to save your sister? Summon a Pokemon to fight the monsters? WTF? Well the first of those options is something they did in the movie Cloverfield, and the second option would be the first choice of a Pokemon addict, I'm sure. A dead sea turtle...how big was it?
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Post by zillamaster55 on Jan 10, 2010 4:18:37 GMT
I have to say something that Jack Horner said, as much as I love to disagree with him, that some animals aren't really different species. Like Torosaurus and Triceratops, Jack just says that the Trike was a teenage Torosaurus. If this study goes on, at least 200 dinosaur species will dissapear, because they're the same as another. Just pointing it out. =/
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Post by mantooth02 on Jan 10, 2010 21:40:23 GMT
I believe he may be right about a few species. Nanotyrannus and tyrannosaurus for example but I highly doubt 200 species would become invalid.
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