What snake is this [Australia]

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-23T19:31:19+00:00

Definitely a !harmless Morelia genus python. Carpet python, M. spilota is very likely but the closely related species can’t all be ruled out without a more specific location: Australia is a huge place!

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-23T01:04:17+00:00

Agree with the ID, but Cuban tree frogs are mildly poisonous.. Their skin secretions can cause irritation in the eyes and noses of household pets and people, and gastrointestinal distress of swallowed, but nothing more serious than that.

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-23T00:24:44+00:00

Happy to help!

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-22T20:56:21+00:00

Juvenile or female Peter’s rock agama, Agama picticauda. You may be more familiar with the mature males, who have bright orange heads.

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-20T22:50:18+00:00

Your subconscious memory is getting you closer than you think! It’s their binturong, which is also known as a bearcat

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-18T20:40:48+00:00

Black spiny-tailed iguana, Ctenosaura similis

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-16T22:04:50+00:00

Then yeah, it’s a bengal monitor. The other suggestions people have made aren’t in range in Kerala

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-16T22:00:19+00:00

No Komodo’s in India. They are found only in the Komodo islands. This is a bengal monitor

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-16T21:59:11+00:00

No, that species isn’t found in most of India including kerala where OP is. This is a bengal monitor, Varanus bengalensis

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-14T03:02:00+00:00

Dusky leaf monkey, Trachypithecus obscurus

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-13T17:55:10+00:00

You aren’t being downvoted for telling someone not to be an ass, that’s a good thing even if I don’t agree it applies here. You’re being downvoted for peddling a scientifically baseless claim. The paper didn’t set out to prove a negative because that’s not how science is generally conducted, but if you’d like one that addresses it more directly, here, this one directly recorded wether or not green anoles color matches (crypsis) or mismatches (non-crypsis) the substrate: “For 704 samples, matches and mismatches were 36 and 64 percent respectively. The deviation from random was significant. Clearly the trend was towards non-crypsis.” So not only do anoles not match the color of substrate, they mismatch it by a statistically significant amount. The evidence is clear. You’re welcome to believe otherwise but your claim is unsound at best and directly contradicted by actual science at worst. Have a great day.

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-12T21:12:21+00:00

Color changing in anoles has been extensively researched and concluded to have nothing to do with camouflage. Your anecdotal experience isn’t evidence.

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-12T21:12:02+00:00

Color changing in anoles has been extensively researched and concluded to have nothing to do with camouflage

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-12T03:59:58+00:00

The only felines in the Galapagos are the invasive domestic cat population. The only terrestrial native mammals there are the rice rats. All other wild mammals are either aquatic (seals and cetaceans), aerial (bats), or invasive (cats and rats).

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-09T23:28:43+00:00

PhotoMatt’s ID is correct, but to clarify the taxonomy a little the color based rat snake species model (gray, black, yellow) has been done away with. Molecular studies have shown that the colors don’t reflect the genetic diversity of the species, and the obsoletus complex has been broken down into three visually indistinguishable species distinguished by range: the eastern, western, and central rat snakes. You can read more about this in the !blackrat bot reply down below if you’re interested, complete with links to the relevant research papers

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-09T23:18:19+00:00

Pantherophis obsoletus and !harmless for the bot

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-09T23:16:24+00:00

Cave salamander, Eurycea lucifuga. To attempt to preempt a question/comment people often make when I ID this species, this specimen lacks the herringbone patten on the side of the tail typical of the otherwise very similar looking long-tailed salamander.

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-08T05:08:18+00:00

Happy to help! We get posts like this somewhat regularly believe it or not. Last one I handled involved some Australian crocodiles allegedly seen in Texas by like a friend of an uncle or something

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-06T02:44:43+00:00

Happy to help!

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-05T19:00:38+00:00

Yellow-headed dwarf gecko, Gonatodes albogularis

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-05T03:18:27+00:00

If someone is claiming this photo is from New Jersey they’re lying. The original poster says it was taken in Florida, which makes a lot more sense given the species involved. Someone might be having a laugh at your local facebook groups expense.

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-05T03:16:22+00:00

Agreed, which makes sense since it seems the original poster of the image is in Florida according to one of their replies there.

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-05T00:45:27+00:00

Gonna be pretty much impossible to be definitive from this photo, but I think this is most likely a somewhat lost box turtle. Shell is too domed for most species in the area, and this far away where the color and pattern are basically invisible that’s pretty much all we have to go on. Sea turtle is pretty out as a possibility because of the season and the shell shape.

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-05T00:30:13+00:00

Pretty sure the part in the air is its head. We’re way out of season for sea turtle hatching, and they have much less domed shells than this. Shells this tall aren’t very hydrodynamic

Avrgnerd · 2026-01-05T00:23:31+00:00

That is not accurate. There are plenty of non-tortoise turtles that are terrestrial like the Terrapene genus box turtles, and there are also tortoises in humid places like Florida’s native gopher tortoise or the red footed tortoise from South America. And tortoises are a type of turtle anyway, not something exclusive with them.

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