A couple of pics while shooting wild snakes today. Another harsh and wet day... and got bitten 4 times in 5 seconds.. (sounds so typical of i, therefore it ain't so much surprising people).

CRIKEY!
Photos by Bear

More pics to come soon.

Just found a little legless fellow a while ago during enjoying a house party in Mt Cameron Road, the Peak. It is a juvenile Wolf Snake. Probably it was the yummy, fleshy geckos that attracted it to come into the backyard of the house. This little fellow was fleeing so swiftly from my hands. It almost managed to get into somewhere to hide completely. Finally I grabbed it but was offered a speedy bite resulting another pair of tiny pinholes with blood on my hand. (more...)

Talking animals on RTHK show Gimme 5.
Here's the link: http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/radio2/Givmme5/20080704.html

please note that was just the next day after i survived from the accident. i wasn't back to normal yet so i looked and sounded a lil bit nerdy..

These days the local news is largely occupied by the Edison scandal.. but I am just attracted by a piece of unusual news that would interest the minority I guess.

Ok... here's the news from ABC: (more...)

The White's tree frog (Litoria caerulea), also known as Dumpy tree frog, (more...)

A slender arboreal snake with stunning bright green color, the White-lipped pitviper is the commonest venomous snake in Hong Kong. (more...)

Everyone knows Hong Kong is a tiny piece of land on earth with a large part being the very urban metropolis built by cement. It is hard to imagine that we possess currently 51 recognized species of native snakes dwelling in here, including 21 species of venomous snakes (6 of them being sea snakes), while others are non-venomous. This density level of the diversity of snakes in this concrete jungle is no less than many natural jungles around the world. (more...)

A small grumpy snake possesses perfect camouflage in Hong Kong trees, the Mock viper (Psammodynastes pulverulentus) is one of the best ambush predators of Hong Kong. Mock viper is also known as Flase viper, Violet-sanded snake, Leopard snake. In chinese it is called 紫沙蛇 in Hong Kong and China, and 茶斑蛇 in Taiwan. This species is a small, rough-looking snake belonged to the family Colubridae that reaches 45-65 cm when fully-grown. (more...)

Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), 南部鶴鴕 (more...)