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Chinmay Kanchi
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Herper, developer, data scientist. Follow for snake pics!
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First WA snake of 2025!
May 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I'm back after a hiatus to share this gorgeous speckled rattlesnake from Southern California!
April 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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A salmon-bellied racer from Costa Rica
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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A basilisk lizard using a sleeping tapir as a lookout point.

#herps #costarica #wildlife
March 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Not a herp this time, but a roseate spoonbill from the Yucatan peninsula.

#birds #mexico #wildlife
March 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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A spiny-tailed iguana surveying his kingdom in Tulum.

#herps
March 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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A beautiful Tiger rattlesnakes from the foothills around Tucson.

#snakes #rattlesnakes #herps
February 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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An absolutely gorgeous Red Diamond rattlesnake from the Joshua Tree area
#snakes #herps
February 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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A twin-spotted rattlesnake from the sky islands of Arizona
#snakes #herps
February 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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A super pretty endemic pit-viper from the Andaman Islands.
#snakes #wildlifeofindia #herps
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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A semi-terrestrial tadpole of an Indirana frog - Western Ghats, India.
#herps #frogs #wildlifeofindia
February 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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A juvenile Indian toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus.

#herps #toadallytuesday
February 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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A wild leopard gecko from Western India. Eublepharis fuscus for the reptile nerds.

#herps #indianwildlife
February 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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An Indian wolf from the outskirts of Pune, in 2016
February 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A gorgeous Malabar Pit-viper from Goa, India

#snakes #herps
February 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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From 2016, my very first American snake, a Northwestern Gartersnake from WA
February 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Northern fungoid frogs (Hydrophylax bahuvistara) getting it on in the Western Ghats
February 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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How about this one?
A snake with an open mouth, looking like it is screaming
February 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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In a change of pace from the usual herp photos, here's a black bear sitting over some carrion at Yellowstone.

#yellowstone #bears #nationalparks #wildlife
A black bear sitting over a carcass
February 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Eggs of a direct-developing (no tadpoles) bush frog from the Western Ghats of India.

#herps #frogs #westernghats #indianwildlife
February 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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For #worldwetlandsday, here's an american crocodile from a mangrove swamp in the Yucatan peninsula.

#crocodiles #wetlands #herps
February 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This is one of my favorite photos ever, a parrot snake shot in situ in Costa Rica.

#snakes #herps
A snake standing up with some leaves in the background
February 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Rubber boa (Charina bottae), WA. These inoffensive snakes are reclusive and spend most of their time under cover, though they can be found above ground in the right habitat and season.

#snakes #herps
January 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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One of the most spectacular snakes I've ever seen - a mudsnake from Florida.
#snakes #herps
A picture of a black and orange snake
January 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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A glass lizard from Florida.
January 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM