San Diego Zoo photos (warning, LOTS of photos)

[ChaosCat]

Boy, I've been photo happy!

Boolean's Python (HUGE, hard to take pics through the kiddy-fingerprint smeared window)

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Rattler
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Woma
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Emerald Tree Boa

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Wagler's Pit Viper

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Aruba Island Rattlesnake

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Rhinoceros Viper (I hate smeared glass!!!)

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Sharp-nosed Pit Viper

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Strange-colored Vine snake (I've always seen green OR brown, not green AND brown)

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Frilled Lizard

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Unidentified viper (could be a bushmaster, not sure)

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Red Spitting Cobra
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Taipan
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Emerald Tree Monitor
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King Cobra
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Brazilian Lancehead
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Madagascar Tree Boa
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Black Tree Monitor
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Unid'ed Eyelash Vipers
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Unid'ed Rattlesnakes
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Red-headed ratsnake
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Rock Iguana
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2-headed California Kingsnake
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Knight Anole
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Adult Gharial (yes that bump is normal-it means it is sexually mature)
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Another iguana
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Ok thats all my good ones!!!

-cat

[Bartman]

omg thats a @$#$ load of pics!! And everyne of em are just awsome!! well done lol

whats that bum on the two header??

[snakegal12345]

wow nice snakes espicially taipan eyelash viper and loved the emerald tree monitor. Oh and it is a bushmaster cant remember what species but its not black headed i think its the common bushmaster but not sure

[Dani33]

Holy pics!!! Great though, thanx for sharing!

[672]

Pics arent working after the 2nd taipan for me.... But nice snakes for all the others!!!!

EDIT-The pics are now working after several "refreshes"... love the 2nd unidentified rattlesnake, he looks so MEAN... i also love the yellow eyelash, and the bump on the cali does look weird, what is it?

[Derrick]

672 you just have to keep reloading until you get them all to come in took me 4 reloads. I'ld imagine it would be worse if you have dial up

Great picts

[Neo]

wow by the time all those photos loaded 4 ppl responded heh. those are really good pics! i love the woma and knight anole. great patterns. nice venomous snakes too!! wow. thx for the pics

672- u have to keep refreshing it. thats what i did when all the red x's appear. the computer just gets lazy when it uploads all those photos. refreshing it will get it back on its feet

[Edwin]

Those are really great pics, thanks for sharing.

[JD@reptiles]

that strange looking "vine snake" was a savannah twig snake or bird snake. probably a thelotornis kirtlandii. you would have to be crazy to work with one of those snakes. there is no antivenom for them and they kill in 3-5 days with i believe to be a cyto toxic venom.

[Phox]

Awesome pics! :thumbsup:...Thanks for sharing. It Looks like you had a good time!

[munchy]

cant believe nobody commented on the 2 headed cal king yet. thats crazy!!

[ryan337]

Cool pics, I'm so jealous!!

[ChaosCat]

Thanks everyone!

Yeah, it was fun finally seeing a zoo with a decent reptile population. Those Booleans were amazing! Redminded me of beefed-up JCPs with pitbull heads.

The majority of the reptiles there were ones I have never seen before in person, so it was worth the 1800+ mile drive down.

I didn't take any photos of the galapagos tortoises.. they were too busy with each other-producing babies for the zoo!

-cat

[munchy]

that boelens python is off the damn hook!!

[ChokeOnSmoke]

thanks for sharing those are some amazing pictures

[mark129er]

great pics, thanks for sharing.

[AshleyL]

that 2 headed snake is intense....oh man! awesome pics

[TheRedDragon]

Very awesome pics! Now I have to pay a visit to the San Diego Zoo! They have a really awesome reptile exhibit from the looks of it! :)

[Janus]

Thats an interesting King snake. (I wonder how it eats or which head eats)

[CDN-Cresties]

Wow those are some cool pics.

-Steve-

[RachelS.]

I went too!! I went too!! See, here are a few pics :P

[Rebecca]

Wow I love that emerald tree monitor.

[Simon]

Thats a lot of pics~
but all of them were great looking!
Thanks for sharing!!!!
I love those venomous snakes that you posted~
Just nice clean shots!

[Yanis]

Beautiful pictures il gives me the feeling to visit the san diego zoo

[Matt]

great pics!!!!

the unidentified viper is definitely a bushmaster

the one you called unidentified eyelash viper....Im going to take my best guess and say Kanburi Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustus)

your first unidentified rattler is an EDB

[nguyen_inc]

i love the rattlers pic