Zoo Trip (Pic Heavy)

[SnoopySnake]

Went to my local-ish zoo yesterday to see the Christmas lights they do. They had the reptile center open, so I got to take a look at some of the reptiles. I forgot my camera so please forgive my crappy cell phone pics :( There are also some pics in here from my trip last year of the ones that weren't out or they no longer have.

Spot the snake?
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6281_zpsizi8tdlk.jpg

There it is! Mexican lance-headed rattlesnake
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6279_zpsa1hui1bh.jpg

Spot this one?
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6285_zpsvl5aoe89.jpg

Here! Aruba Island Rattlesnake
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6284_zps9bqpgpc0.jpg

Grey Banded King
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6286_zps6th0c8qe.jpg

Its enclosure
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6287_zpsblgo77ye.jpg

Eastern Massasauga
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6295_zps3vsdyh5g.jpg


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Black Ratsnake
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6297_zpspbf4rjwj.jpg

Green Tree Python
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6298_zps6diig1cv.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6299_zpsr0avci0n.jpg

King Cobra
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6301_zpsnsnndiie.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6303_zpsph7k6agj.jpg

Uromastyx
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6304_zps80zq6ics.jpg

Find the snake? Eastern Fox Snake.
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6305_zpschjvhvz7.jpg

Savu Python
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6308_zps5zv3vmyu.jpg


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Veiled Chameleon
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6310_zpsphw9rle8.jpg

One of the gator or caiman enclosures (Top of it)
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6311_zpseypzev7q.jpg

Giant Hognose
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6313_zpspgf4ssw3.jpg

West African Gaboon Viper
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6314_zpsam3qqumv.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6316_zpso11q4jra.jpg

Indo-Chinese Spitting Cobra, this guy was really curious about my hand and phone
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6317_zpskjwfgdnc.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6319_zpsrnvcgufv.jpg

Western Pond Turtle enclosure
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/PicMonkey%20Collage_zpssfnqum1p.jpg

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Western Diamondback with a nice rattle
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6322_zpsvqtag0g2.jpg

Pair of Bushmasters
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6326_zps6lmut6s6.jpg

Big Reticulated Python, measured 18' and 130 lbs in 2014
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6327_zpsz61ycuxq.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6328_zpshiceloq5.jpg

Black Headed Python Pair
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6329_zpsr1dteos2.jpg

Chinese Alligator
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6348_zpsaioz8m7f.jpg

Top of its enclosure
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6330_zpscthyiynv.jpg

Madagascar Tree Boa
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6331_zpspczwcukp.jpg


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Chuckwalla
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6332_zpsex5jjyhw.jpg

Shingleback Skinks
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6333_zpso9deo7qf.jpg

Beaded Lizards and Gila Monsters
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6335_zps1636nkxv.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6336_zpsq4d4wcbm.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6337_zpspi646ufe.jpg

Indian Star Tortoises
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6338_zps8wdvmwib.jpg

Spiny Tailed Iguana
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6339_zpsdfn1wbsd.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6340_zpsrk6a4mck.jpg


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King Brown Snake
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6341_zpsxidswjkv.jpg

Timor Pythons
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6343_zps3cltim4x.jpg

Another part of the croc enclosures
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6347_zps4qxoyfuc.jpg

Mata Mata Turtle, Not sure what the turtle on the bottom is.
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6349_zpsj3tb814n.jpg

Water Monitor
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6351_zpsg8miehfe.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/IMAG6352_zpsstifzniv.jpg


Some of the pics from my last visit

Vietnamese long nosed snake/Rhino Ratsnake
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5922_zps2zcvi5ky.jpg

Armenian Viper
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5920_zps7dv2fcye.jpg

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Green Tree Monitor
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5918_zpsxlxuadgb.jpg

Spiny Tailed Iguana?
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5913_zpskogyzm1d.jpg

Indo-Chinese Spitting Cobra
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5896_zps1gevikjl.jpg

Forest Cobra
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5892_zpsln4s2did.jpg

Eastern Fox snake
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5889_zpszcpyy9cm.jpg

Jamaican Boa
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5887_zpsdmdiro24.jpg

Philippine Pit Vipers
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5876_zpsi8rvd4si.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5874_zpspoyrpup4.jpg

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Mexican Lance-Headed Rattlesnake
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/SnoopySnake/DSCN5871_zps00xsde5p.jpg


And thats all for reptiles. But, if anyone's interested I also have pictures from the butterfly house, and the aviary house too and I can post those in a separate section if people want to see them. Thanks for looking! :)

[EL Ziggy]

What beautiful critters. Their camouflage is amazing. I'd love to have those enclosures too :). Great pics and thanks for sharing Adrian.

[Nightflight99]

Nice! I especially enjoyed the shingleback skinks.

[SnoopySnake]

Ziggy, the Detroit zoo has great enclosures, and they use real plants, I love it :) they give each animal so much space.

Nightflight, the skinks were cool, but I particularly enjoyed the spitting cobra. He was right at the front of the enclosure and when I was up close to him taking pictures he was observing my hand and camera and seemed very curious.

[jjhill001]

Why is it that zoos use cacti but everyone says for us not to use them?

[reptiledude987]

Gerat pics. I really liked the large natural enclosures. I think my favorite was the green tree monitor. I would love to set up a nice tree monitor enclosure at home.

[McCarthy Boas]

Great pics thanks for posting them.

Take care
Tom

[prairiepanda]

I'm very impressed with that zoo! The variety of herps and he quality of their enclosures is phenomenal. All the zoos I've been to have had real tiny reptile sections, where they keep the animals in nice-looking but undersized enclosures. I'd love to see a place like this. That spitting cobra is really cool!

[dave himself]

Wow now that's an impressive reptile house. Thanks for sharing Snoopy ;)