Like 3 feet off the ground in a bush! He was like that when I walked up, not sure how he got up there in the first place lol.
Another tiny baby!
Large adult! The last one, of four, that I saw! Absolutely STOKED about seeing these here!!!
This location (in the Galiuro Mountains) is probably in the taxon "L. knoblochi," but the paper that split knoblochi from pyromelana had a huge gap in samples between the two "species," including in this area, and there are no known morphological features to tell them apart. Even the genetics isn't diagnostic. (These probably shouldn't have been split, based on the available data.)
I think this one might be Cope's
This area (different spot from where I found them yesterday) has significantly less whiptails despite being way bigger 🤔
I saw this big rock and though “that shady area underneath looks like a cozy spot for a snake” and sure enough, when I walk up to it, this girl is sitting underneath! Sooo docile! Didn’t rattle, and slithered back up under the rock when I got too close 🤣 Not aggressive at all.
Huh. Fun little creek.
Along with T. sirtalis in the overgrown portion of talus.
Lots in the vegetated talus area along the trail.
In rocky talus. Saw another in the more vegetated talus above along with the garter snakes.