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K9Kirk wrote in post #19480170
Cool shots/work. I think it's a Velocersnapper.

Noticed, thanks

realairlight wrote in post #19480403
Great shots of hunting life in a river.
I noticed the herons/egrets like to stay around the cold blooded beasts even it's not the safest place for the day.
My guess is that they may have more chances to catch the fish running away from the monster.

Thank you. From what I've read alligators offer protection from predators like racoon and wild cats.

sogs wrote in post #19480366
The kind that can rip an arm or a leg off of you. Nice captures!

Great shots!

Thanks, sogs.

K9Kirk wrote in post #19480420
Thank you. From what I've read alligators offer protection from predators like racoon and wild cats.

That's interesting.
Good. I could camp out quite safely knowing I wouldn't get eaten by a raccoon

This is a reptile storey but only photos are tracks

10 years back I was in my workshop and I encountered a Tiger Snake having a look about.
We eyeballed each other for a while then he took off and I lost him under some machinery.
With little hope of finding him as the place is full of woodworking machinery and stacks of timber I locked the door and left him to fend for himself.
He sure did as he cleaned up all my resident skinks, knocking things off shelves in the process.

Deciding enough was enough I laid a sand bed outside at the door, leaving it open in day time hoping to see some tracks when he left!
Later I ventured near and found these tracks. (Looks like a possum may have visited in the night when the door was shut.)

First photo looking in from outside workshop, second from inside looking out.

I assume he snuck around the corner of the open door on right (second photo) and either 'jumped' the remaining foot when he encountered the other door on left.
There is a faint mark on other side of door but not very clear.
I gathered by the way the marks sweep out in a curve that is the mark left behind as he pushes forward. Never saw one again inside so must have left.

I like snakes but not when they take up residence this way and eat my more gentle wildlife.

avondale87 wrote in post #19480452
This is a reptile storey but only photos are tracks

10 years back I was in my workshop and I encountered a Tiger Snake having a look about.
We eyeballed each other for a while then he took off and I lost him under some machinery.
With little hope of finding him as the place is full of woodworking machinery and stacks of timber I locked the door and left him to fend for himself.
He sure did as he cleaned up all my resident skinks, knocking things off shelves in the process.

Deciding enough was enough I laid a sand bed outside at the door, leaving it open in day time hoping to see some tracks when he left!
Later I ventured near and found these tracks. (Looks like a possum may have visited in the night when the door was shut.)

First photo looking in from outside workshop, second from inside looking out.

I assume he snuck around the corner of the open door on right (second photo) and either 'jumped' the remaining foot when he encountered the other door on left.
There is a faint mark on other side of door but not very clear.
I gathered by the way the marks sweep out in a curve that is the mark left behind as he pushes forward. Never saw one again inside so must have left.

I like snakes but not when they take up residence this way and eat my more gentle wildlife.

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Ah ha, another woodworker here, and funny that I was thinking of posting tracks recently on another thread. They would have bee in the deer thread though. We’d had some sleet and freezing rain followed by some pretty cold weather. While I was out, I was looking at some deer tracks through a sandy place that had frost crystals sticking up around the edges, and still a little caked sleet down the depression, as well as little dimples from the sleet all around. I wasn’t satisfied enough to save any of them though. Do you have any of your work online that you could link me to?!

I Keith Newton wrote in post #19480551
Ah ha, another woodworker here, and funny that I was thinking of posting tracks recently on another thread. They would have bee in the deer thread though. We’d had some sleet and freezing rain followed by some pretty cold weather. While I was out, I was looking at some deer tracks through a sandy place that had frost crystals sticking up around the edges, and still a little caked sleet down the depression, as well as little dimples from the sleet all around. I wasn’t satisfied enough to save any of them though. Do you have any of your work online that you could link me to?!

Keith there's a thread I and others have posted to
https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1512573
No website

Haven't done any serious woodworking for a while. My other job took over, then fitting out a house for our retirement.

Animal tracks always interest me but I'm.
This one was a survival interest more than sheer fascination

Everyday life in 35 Mya - 2023

Asian Toad

Asian Water Monitor

realairlight wrote in post #19480944
Everyday life in 35 Mya - 2023

Cast
Left:Asian Toad

Right:Asian Water Monitor

I hope that's not a cane toad, else that goanna is in big trouble.

Pippan wrote in post #19480947
I hope that's not a cane toad, else that goanna is in big trouble.

From the page the link points to
"These toxins would beyond reasonable doubt severely affect native predators"
Except if the monitor is immune to it?

Piet ZA wrote in post #19481122
From the page the link points to
"These toxins would beyond reasonable doubt severely affect native predators"
Except if the monitor is immune to it?

Ah, I didn't see the link. It's not a cane toad then. Maybe the Asian toads' toxin is not as strong as that of cane toads, although the Wiki article says about their potential incursion into Australia: "These toxins would beyond reasonable doubt severely affect native predators, such as snakes, goannas and quolls". Monitors (goannas) are certainly not immune to cane toad toxin, they die within minutes. Goannas and snakes (those that eat frogs), and quolls have become almost extinct in all the areas of Australia that cane toads have spread into.

Pippan wrote in post #19480947
I hope that's not a cane toad, else that goanna is in big trouble.

Ever watch this video, Australia's Most Destructive Creature

Allow me to laugh about it: The cane toads eat everything except cane beetles.

Piet ZA wrote in post #19481122
From the page the link points to
"These toxins would beyond reasonable doubt severely affect native predators"
Except if the monitor is immune to it?

Pippan wrote in post #19481176
Ah, I didn't see the link. It's not a cane toad then. Maybe the Asian toads' toxin is not as strong as that of cane toads, although the Wiki article says about their potential incursion into Australia: "These toxins would beyond reasonable doubt severely affect native predators, such as snakes, goannas and quolls". Monitors (goannas) are certainly not immune to cane toad toxin, they die within minutes. Goannas and snakes (those that eat frogs), and quolls have become almost extinct in all the areas of Australia that cane toads have spread into.

For native species, those super toxic toads killed everyone or those predators could not handle the toad toxins are all disappeared on the road of evolution.

Asian toads and water monitors can be easily heard or seen in the same pond. They are well balanced.

realairlight wrote in post #19481302
Ever watch this video, Australia's Most Destructive Creature

Oh yes, that video is well worth a watch.

realairlight wrote in post #19481302
Allow me to laugh about it: The cane toads eat everything except cane beetles.

Ironic isn't it, the one thing they were imported to control they can't even reach because they can't climb, yet they've caused ecological destruction on an unimaginable scale. Absolutely criminal, yet there is no justice for the environment.

Pippan wrote in post #19481304
Oh yes, that video is well worth a watch.Ironic isn't it, the one thing they were imported to control they can't even reach because they can't climb, yet they've caused ecological destruction on an unimaginable scale. Absolutely criminal, yet there is no justice for the environment.

Nearly 20 years ago I was at a Gardenshow and there was a stand about pests. I asked them what was done about the cane toad and what we can do. They advised to catch them and put them in the freezer, than they will die and that it was animal cruelty to spray it with Dettol (cane toads die very quick when sprayed with Dettol). They didn't think the government was doing anything soon, maybe in 10 years time. Well it's now nearly 20 years.
I heard a story that the crows have find a way to kill them, they put them upside down and then kill and eat them, without getting poisoned.

Lyn2011 wrote in post #19481377
Nearly 20 years ago I was at a Gardenshow and there was a stand about pests. I asked them what was done about the cane toad and what we can do. They advised to catch them and put them in the freezer, than they will die and that it was animal cruelty to spray it with Dettol (cane toads die very quick when sprayed with Dettol). They didn't think the government was doing anything soon, maybe in 10 years time. Well it's now nearly 20 years.
I heard a story that the crows have find a way to kill them, they put them upside down and then kill and eat them, without getting poisoned.

Interesting how nature adapts.
Freezing vs Dettol? Odd choice to favour freezing I'd have thought