Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Palm Tree Inspection

I'm looking for tree snakes and this lead me to inspect palm trees in the hope of spotting snakes sunning themselves. Instead of snakes, I found other reptiles of the four legged kind all doing what reptiles need to do warm up before they can hunt.
Each palm tree seems to host only one species of reptile for obvious reasons - the hunter and the hunted. There were pairs of Common Gliding Lizards performing their courting rituals.Also present were the next generation of Clouded Monitors, each palm played host to one baby lizard. I can only guess why there weren't any tree snakes around.Then there was the odd Gecko as well.It was interesting to see how each reptile colonized one palm tree each but where were the tree snakes.

4 comments:

ShaoWei said...

i'm in love with that picture of the clouded monitor on the tree with it's head tilted up!
Picture Perfect!!
if you're not into nature photography competition i think you should be!!cause that picture to me is a WINNER!!

Shirls said...

Thanks ShaoWei. I have entered some of my photos but out of fun. I that photo too, the lizard seems to be holding a yoga pose n greeting the sun.

ShaoWei said...

yeah!looks like it's doing sun salutations which kinda looks like the cobra pose or something!haha!
so have you won anything yet?which competition did you enter the lizard picture in?

Shirls said...

I entered some of my photos in the Asiam Geographics photo competition. No I didn't enter the lizard but still not too late to correct that.