{"id":680,"date":"2009-02-02T19:41:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/2009\/02\/02\/i-went-to-a-reptile-and-amphibian-show-i-saw-many-cool-things\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T17:57:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T17:57:31","slug":"i-went-to-a-reptile-and-amphibian-show-i-saw-many-cool-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/2009\/02\/02\/i-went-to-a-reptile-and-amphibian-show-i-saw-many-cool-things\/","title":{"rendered":"I went to a reptile and amphibian show. I saw many cool things."},"content":{"rendered":"

I went with Snorth last weekend, and it was delightful. I love all of God’s creatures, but I especially love crested geckos. And lo, there were many a crested gecko there. I got to hold two of them! One even licked his eyeball clean! And I exploded with happiness! I also forgot to take pictures of him while I was doing this exploding, so I found some good pictures of crested geckos online that I will post here. Imagine I’m holding one of those.<\/p>\n

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In that last pic you can really appreciate their windshield-wiper feet that allow them to stick to glass like suction cups. Crested geckos are also called eyelash geckos because of the little ridge of eyelash-like scales over their eyes. They’re just the greatest.<\/p>\n

So, The Reptile and Amphibian Show happens semi-annually at the Westchester County Center, which is a giant hall, and the hall was filled to the brim with beasties in plastic containers. As we came in, the first booth on the right had this grotesque 3-D display.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the reptile and amphibian show! We have corpses taped to paper! Enjoy your breakfast that you’re trying to keep down right now!<\/p>\n

But at that booth, there was a smootchie little Western Hognose Snake. Hognoses are known for being excellent pets, laid-back and friendly (as friendly as snakes get). And I got to hold this little fella. What a sweetheart.<\/p>\n

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They live for about twelve years and get to be a bit bigger then a garter snake. You can’t appreciate it in this pic, but the hognose snake is called the hognose snake because its little snoot turns up at the end like a tiny cold-blooded piggie.<\/p>\n

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I think it looks more like a shoehorn with eyes, but it’s called the hognose, and hognose-named it shall remain.<\/p>\n

So Snorth and I pottered around commenting on the beautiful patterns on all the beasties (quick recap: they were very beautiful) and we saw a little boy chillin’ with some big ole lizards. Big. I took pictures of the lizards with the child so you can see the scale.<\/p>\n

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And I got a shot with some flicky-flicky tongue action! I think the lizards were plotting to eat the child.<\/p>\n

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And there was a man selling a variety of reptiles with his favorite on his shirt, literally hanging out.<\/p>\n

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I was so envious. I want a dragon hanging from my shirt all day. I talk to myself a lot, and I could pretend I was talking to the dragon instead, which is slightly less insane-looking.<\/p>\n

This particular vendor had a pretty standard snake set-up, which I took a picture of so you could see it. And one of the snakes was shedding, I think.<\/p>\n

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See him? Lower right-hand corner? And not only were there snakes and frogs and lizards, there were also tarantulas and walking-stick bugs and giant African millipedes. They really covered the whole creepy-crawly gamut. It was wonderful, and I can’t wait to go back next time, if only to cuddle my beloved geckos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went with Snorth last weekend, and it was delightful. I love all of God’s creatures, but I especially love crested geckos. And lo, there were many a crested gecko there. I got to hold two of them! One even licked his eyeball clean! And I exploded with happiness! I also forgot to take pictures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beastiesbeastiesbeasties","category-nature","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}