Blue Tongued Skink

Blue Tongued Skink has beautiful blue tongue, and the tongue is almost 1.5 inches long. And it’s body length is up to 2 feet ( 60 cm) long. I see this in Aunty Maya house. When I tried to hold it the first time, it poo on the floor. Yarky…….

When it tries to defend itself, it will show a blue tongue out of its mouth.

Thank you uncle Alvin for your beautiful pictures.

Unknown Toad

We found this toad near our house. This toad was found in a bucket. The bucket is about 3 feet (100cm) deep. And the toad was about 2 inches to 3 inches long, equivalent to 5 to 7.5cm.

This small creature was mistaken for a snake at first, because it’s tiny body is very similar to a snake’s head. This toad can burrow up to 2 feet deep. It can jump over 7 inches per second. We captured it back home. We released it back to the wild the next day.

This is Clouded Monitor Lizard

I saw this wild monitor lizard in aunty Maya’s gathering.

It’s hungry and fast to strike on a rat! It can strike at 6 inches per second and swallow the rat. It takes about 20 minutes to swallow the rat whole into the monitor’s stomach.

Bermuda Grass for Star Tortoise

Me and May Yee collecting Bermuda Grass for my star tortoise. Fiber food!

My Pet: Star Tortoise

I have 2 star tortoises at home. Male and female. The male is now two and a quarter inch, and female is about three and a quarter inch in length. They can grow up to 8 to 15 inches when adult. They feed on endive and pellet everyday.

They may live up to 100 years old. Even older than me!

They live in grass land and semi desert in the wild. They can form 6 inches high dooms when adult! Is it high??

They sleep up to 22 hours a day. Like koala bear. Koala bear can sleep up to 22 hours a day too, the laziest mammal!

Uncle Moe Handling Retics

wow, I learn something from Uncle Moe.

Aunty Maya With A Reticulated Python

Aunty Maya with a retic. She love it!

Reticulated Python: Wooh! This Is The Longest Snake In The World

The reticulated python can climb trees up to 200 feet (60 m). There are stories of retics climbing 132 feet.

This is the longest snake in the world.

The 2nd longest is Anaconda.

The 3rd longest is the Amethystine python.

After that, Burmese Python.

The 5th is African Rock Python.

The 6th is Burmese Rock Python.

The 7th is Carpet Python.

The 8th is Common Boa.

The 9th is Diamond Python.

Reticulated Python can grows to a length of 11 m ( 36 feet 6 inch). But it normally grows to 6 meters ( 19 feet 8 inches). It lives in forested area up to 1500 meters (55oo feet) above sea level. A record of reticulated python being found 2000 meters ( 6000 feet) above sea level. It lives in South East Asia.

It feeds on birds, rabbits, deer, pigs, monkeys, squirrels, sometimes buffaloes and even human being. Not so long ago, a 14 year boy had eaten by one. My favorite program for the reticulated python is “Austin Stevens Most Dangerous: In Search of The Man Eating Python”.

Green Anaconda

Anaconda capable of killing a human. There are 366 foot snake stories but most only 17 feet long. 366 foot stories are exaggerated!

In 1940s a newspaper said that an 156 foot anaconda ( 47.5 m) crash into buildings in South America. There are only 30 foot anacondas today. Because habitat lost, and they become smaller and smaller.

The anaconda can weight up to 1 ton ( 1.5 tonnes). This is the recorded weight of a 60 foot ( 18 m) anaconda. But 366 foot anaconda may be 10 ton (15 tonnes).

The anaconda can strike up to 22 feet per second. It preys on capybara, caiman, fish and frogs, pigs, deers. Capybara is the largest rodent. The capybara can grow up to 7 feet ( 2.2 m). Sometimes, over 9 feet.

Anaconda submerge and strike prey. How to strike prey? The anaconda moves behind then strikes normally 13 feet per second. It takes 6 hours to swallow a capybara whole. Anaconda normally throw one coil at first, and one coil become 2 coils, and the constriction begins.

There are 3 species of Anaconda, One: Green Anaconda. Two: Yellow Anaconda. Three: Blotched Anaconda. They are all in South America. Be careful, there are 12 deathliest predators in America. But, the anaconda is not one of them.

The Anaconda is live bearing, it lays about 40 to 50 young. Record 100 young.Normally, 20% will survive.

The Anaconda lives in lakes and rivers in rainforest.

Snail Collecting

This morning, I saw 22 snails but I caught 18 of them. The other 4 are sick or death or in the bushes, I can’t get in.

I collect 4 of them and 18 I never collect. I put some leaves in the container, they really eat leaves. These leaves are snail’s favorite food! The snails was 2-3 inches long.

Snails use long tongue call radulas to eat.