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| Brook's Gecko |
Date:
January 2nd 2015
Species Found:
- Brook's House Gecko (Hemidactylus brookii)
- Indian Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus)
- Asian Toad (Bufo melanostictus)
Background:
My family took a trip to Chennai for 2 days and I decided to look for herps on the IIT campus in my free time. The campus is built in a reserve forest so it has lush greenery and prime wild animal habitat.
The Trip:
I just went around the campus one evening for an hour or two, looking along ponds and under rocks.
The first animal I found was a gecko on the side of a rock. On closer inspection I found that it was a Brook's Gecko.
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| Brook's Gecko |
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| Brook's Gecko |
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| Brook's Gecko |
The next herp I found was an Indian Bullfrog. I saw a lot of them hopping by the side of a pond and it took a while to actually catch one because they were so fast and it was dark. The individual that I caught was a juvenile. Adults get around 5 times bigger.
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| Juvenile Indian Bullfrog |
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| Juvenile Indian Bullfrog |
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| Juvenile Indian Bullfrog |
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| Juvenile Indian Bullfrog |
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| Juvenile Indian Bullfrog |
On the way back to the hotel I caught a little Asian Toad. I had seen plenty of these near my house in Bangalore but this one had a darker and duller coloration than the ones I had seen.
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| Juvenile Asian Toad |
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| Juvenile Asian Toad |
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| Juvenile Asian Toad |
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| Juvenile Asian Toad |
This was a very short trip but I did manage to get 2 new species for my Indian Herpedex.
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