#blindsnake

[dracosleftarsecheek]

does the ship of ominis gaunt and sebastian sallow have a name? because those bois cuteeeee and if not i'm gonna name them blindsnake. blindsnakeeeee

#sebastian sallow #ominis gaunt #hogwarts legacy #shipping #blindsnake #get blindsnake trending

[monstersandmaw]

tiny nagas based on the brahminy blindsnake

omg when you said tiny, you really meant it! Living with the tiny fairy folk in little acorn houses or nomadic ones built on the back of animals like fieldmice or snails or blackbirds, with capital 'cities' on raven back or something.... oh man. Yeah, teenytiny nagas

#brahminy blindsnake #snakes #naga #anon ask

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

Would it be possible for blind snakes to be kept in captivity in any sort of degree or are they too mysterious and/or tiny for that to be feasible?

I don't know of anyone who's ever managed to successfully keep them in captivity long-term. Blindsnakes (and threadsnakes, too), aside from being super small, need deep soil to dig in (we're talking, like, at least five feet deep for a snake four inches long!) and will need simulations of heavy rain both to moisturize the soil and to keep them healthy and happy. They exclusively eat termites, so you'd also need a huge supply of termites and termite larvae.

They're cool, but definitely not feasible pets! (Plus, they stay burrowed deep so often that I don't think you'd ever see them, anyway.)

#not a rating #blindsnakes

[harpyartisan]

Now that I realize my dear shadow is coming up next festival I'm very excited to see what snake species we get

#if we get something like a blindsnake I'm going to audibly squeal in delight

[herpsandbirds]

Hello! Since March 8th is International Women’s Day, I was wondering if you might share with us some females from various species? (Since the more vibrant males tend to get the spotlight lol)

International Women’s Day!!!

Yes yes yes! With many animals, the females are more impressively large or more colorful than the males. Let's have a look at some impressive and amazing females...

(Southern) Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus), female, family Boidae, Ecuador

With many snakes, the females get to be much larger than the males. Female Anacondas grow to be the heaviest snakes in the world, as up to 97.5 kg (214 lb 15 oz).

Though reports have claimed that Green Anacondas can grow up to over 30 ft long, the longest ever ACTUALLY measured was about 19 ft. long.

photograph by Alejandro Arteaga Advance Wildlife Education

Brahminy Blindsnake aka Flowerpot Snake (Indotyphlops braminus), family Typhlopidae, found in tropical and subtropical areas around the world

This snake is native to somewhere along the Indian Ocean, possibly somewhere in SE Asia or coastal Africa.

The fossorial (burrowing) snake feeds mainly on the larvae, pupae, and eggs of ants and termites.

All known specimens of this snake have been female. They reproduce through parthenogenesis (asexually).

photograph via: UGA Coastal Ecology Lab

Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius), female, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, near Barrow, Alaska, USA

Female Phalaropes are larger and more colorful than the males. They court the males and defend the nest site. The males incubate the eggs, and raise the chicks.

photograph by Mark A. Chappell

Sonoran Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis sonorae), females, family Teiidae, Arizona

This is another all female parthenogentic species.

There are other closely relates species, other whiptails and racerunners, that are also all female populations. Some of them are completely parthenogenic, and some combine parthenogenesis with sexual input from closely related species or populations nearby.

photograph by Tom Brennan

photograph by Forrest Fanning

photograph by Giuseppe Mazza

Asian Yellow-spotted Climbing Toad (Rentapia hosii), females, family Bufonidae, found in SE Asia

The females of this species are large, gorgeous, ornate frogs, while the males are much smaller and much less colorful.

#frog #toad #amphibian #snake #anaconda #reptile #phalarope #bird #animals #nature #whiptail #lizard #blind snake #international women's day

[markscherz]

From what i can tell you mostly deal with frogs/smaller amphibians and reptiles of that sort, how do you feel about snakes? Do you like finding them or is it more meh

Additionally: do you have a favourite snake species you like to find/interact with in the wild?

Snakes are a fascinating group of lizards. I work quite a bit with snakes, though not as much as with other reptiles or amphibians. I am particularly fond of tree snakes, like the Malagasy genera Lycodryas, Parastenophis, and Phisalixella. Here, for instance, is the highly fashionable Parastenophis betsileanus.

Most of my research on snakes so far concerns blind snakes and their relationships. These are a little less exciting to look at in life, but are still quite remarkable creatures, and their tiny skulls are especially cool.

So weird.

You can read a bit about some of my work on blindsnakes here.

#snakes #reptiles #squamates #lizards #herpetology #answers by Mark #anarcho-frogge

[crevicedwelling]

thoughts on brahminy blindsnakes?

they stink

regardless; eating her

[o-ceti]

went on a walk tonight and saw two fossorial ant eating beasts we’ve never/rarely seen before, brahminy blindsnake and an eastern narrow mouthed toad

#i say rarely bc i do have a pic of one of those frogs from another time but never seen one of those snakes before :O it looked just like an #earthworm till we noticed the little tongue flicking out and the scales #i wonder why they were both out above ground tonight #meeting up for an ant eaters convention #the frog ate an ant right in front of us

[typhlonectes]

A molecular-genetics perspective on the systematics of the parthenogenetic flowerpot blindsnake Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803) (Squamata: Serpentes: Typhlopidae)

Nethu Wickramasinghe et al.

ABSTRACT:

Sri Lanka has a rich snake diversity, but the island’s scolecophidians (‘blindsnakes’) are poorly understood due to the cryptic, burrowing habits of these inconspicuous animals and lack of systematic field surveys and morphological and molecular analyses. 

Here we report findings from a systematic survey carried out over a decade across the island of Sri Lanka, focusing particularly on the globally widespread, parthenogenetic species Indotyphlops braminus. We report 780 locations across the island in which this species was recorded, at elevations of 1–1,424 m asl, and mostly <1,000 m (771 out of 780 localities). 

We provide a molecular-systematics perspective by reporting new DNA sequence data for 15 specimens from Sri Lanka, and new analyses of asiatyphlopine molecular genetic diversity and relationships. Based on molecular results, we conclude that (i) Indotyphlops, as originally conceived may not be monophyletic, (ii) phenotypically the I. braminus-like blindsnakes widespread across most of Sri Lanka are a single, genetically homogeneous species, and (iii) some populations from peninsular India are very similar in DNA sequence to I. braminus from Sri Lanka, but others are genetically highly distinct and unlikely to be conspecific. 

Based on the estimated phylogenetic relationships, we recommend that I. braminus is currently best recognized as a phenotypically exceptional species of Indotyphlops rather than, as recently proposed, the only species of a monotypic genus (Virgotyphlops).

Read the paper here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772000.2022.2062478?journalCode=tsab20

#blind snake #reptile #snake #herpetology #animals #science #nature #asia

[stophangiingdjs]

my cat is not a trickster or evil. shes a dumbass but shes also sweet and kind. there is not a single thought in her skull. she once slammed headfirst into my window because she wanted to catch a lizard for me. she got into a fight with a baby blindsnake and lost. she does not understand the concept of videogames. shes a baby

#Yosu's thoughts #little baby banana <3 (the baby in question is a 3 year old cat)

[petnews2day]

The Brahminy Blindsnake: Meet the smallest snake in America | Entertainment/Life

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/Jx0g

The Brahminy Blindsnake: Meet the smallest snake in America | Entertainment/Life

There was a tiny dead creature on the concrete pad outside the back door one morning. At first it looked just like an earthworm. But it wasn’t a worm. It was a little smoother and more sparkly. If you bent down and looked really carefully, it had tiny, tiny scales. So it was a reptile. […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/Jx0g #ReptileNews

#Reptile News

[reptile-room]

A friend of ours found this Brahminy Blindsnake in their house, so we identified it and released it outside!

#reptiles #reptiblr #herpetology #reptile #snakes #snake #snekblr #snakeblr #snek #florida wildlife #Blindsnake

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

you CANNOT say there’s a snake called “bandy-bandys” and not provide any more info

Aha! You've played into my trap and now I get to talk about bandy-bandys!

The bandy-bandy (Vermicella annulata), sometimes also called the hoop snake, is a cute little snake native to a wide range in Australia. They are adorable and perfect and I love them.

They're very small - around two feet long - and prefer to eat other snakes. Because they're so small, they mostly eat tiny blindsnakes. Despite being elapids, a family known for potent venom, bandy-bandy venom is very weak (one of my friends was actually bitten once pulling one of these guys out of a condemned building, he says he's had worse bee stings). They're reluctant to bite and generally very placid snakes.

They're the only land snakes in Australia with a black-and-white striped patterning, making them impossible to mistake! But that's not even the coolest thing about them...

Their defensive display is super unique! They throw up sections of their bodies into hoops in an attempt to disorient predators!

I love them so much. They're so cool.

#not a rating #bandy bandys #snake facts

[foundbycmkosemen]

Acontias plumbeus, giant legless skink.

www.cmkosemen.com

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#afrotyphlops #blindsnake #blind snake #herpetology #snake #snakes

[herpsandbirds]

Brahminy Blindsnake aka Flowerpot Snake (Indotyphlops braminus), family Typhlopidae, found in tropical and subtropical areas around the world

This snake is native to somewhere along the Indian Ocean, possibly somewhere in SE Asia or coastal Africa.

The fossorial (burrowing) snake feeds mainly on the larvae, pupae, and eggs of ants and termites.

All known specimens of this snake have been female. They reproduce through parthenogenesis (asexually).

photographs via: UGA Coastal Ecology Lab

#blind snake #snake #indotyphlops #typhlopidae #reptile #herpetology #animals #nature #asia #north america #africa

[atheostic]

Sh!t Theists Say

“Being gay is unnatural because a female can’t reproduce with another female!”

Unnatural

1. Contrary to the ordinary course of nature; abnormal. 2.  Not existing in nature; artificial.

My dude, there’s an entire GENUS of whiptail lizards alone (Aspidoscelis) in which girl lizards can have babies without any guy getting involved.

In fact, 15 of the 47 species in the genus are comprised entirely of lady lizards. 

No bros whatsoever to be found in any of those 15 species. 

As Katherine Harmon so eloquently said in the opening lines of a 2010 Scientific American article, “some species of whiptail lizards need a male even less than a fish needs a bicycle”.

And those are not the only examples of female-only species either. 

About 70 other fish, reptile, arachnid, and bird species also reproduce by parthenogenesis.

Examples of ladies-only species:

Triaeris stenaspis (a species of goblin spider)

Are believed to be a female-only species, as no males specimen have ever been found and scientists have demonstrated that the species is indeed able to reproduce parthenogenetically.

The mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris)

Indo-Pacific house gecko (Hemidactylus garnotii)

^ Image by William Flaxington

^ Image by Sean McCann

(different looks are different subspecies)

Brahminy blindsnake (Indotyphlops braminus)

Nature is a helluva lot more inventive (and weird af) than anyone gives it credit for.

Or, as Dr. Malcom would put it...

#homophobia #tw homophobia #life finds a way #nature is lgbt+ af #biology #Religion #Unnatural #lol ok then #nature has zero Fs to give about what you think is moral #whiptail lizard #blindsnake