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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

#snakesaturday Nerodia erythrogaster, Baird and Girard, 1853; an orange one from the Pamlico Sound in NC, USA. Enjoy!🐍

Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

That account was hacked in 2017. Note the last time I posted. I'm not on fb save for a "Teddy Kahn" page which seems to be overlapped w/ someone else's page. Not me, yet i have the password. I just opened it and zero friends. I gave up on fb.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

That is not me and I just tried to create a fb account and it reset to someone else. My original fb account was hacked and fb kicked me off after my ex hacked that too. What is the name on the account, don't send a link, what name.?

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

There are so many to choose from! MILF LOL!

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Made it to #frogfriday! Wasn't sure I'd have the time. Here have a free Cauca Poison Frog, Andinobates bombetes (Myers and Daly, 1980) from Colombia. Enjoy! Painting by me.🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Nice yard! Well, except the terciopelos, they are fussy.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"Scientia sine arte nihil est" —Tracy Hicks

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Keeled-scales, they feel rough too.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Here are two interesting venomous snakes I found in a herpetologically unexplored part of Colombia back in 2011 on a Cartel cocaine smuggling route #TBT Bothriechis supraciliaris (Taylor, 1954).🐍 No good pic's of the blue one, but you can imagine.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Nerds! PSA FYI🐸the reason poison arrow frogs was used for these frogs firstly is cause "arrows" were also considered darts when discovered in 1841; the language then considered arrow=darts. Poison Dart Frog presumes the frogs have darts; untrue. Hence, Dart Poison Frog is the correct vernacular.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

They are not hard to find. It's the habitat loss that threatens them along w/ commercial poaching. But yea, there are plenty within their range; far larger than IUCN maps X five or 6 times larger. (see Kahn et al., 2016).

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#notfrogfriday but not sure I'll be around to post tomorrow. Enjoy some Phyllobates sp.🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Missed #snakesaturday. So here for #TBT is a Lampropeltis getula goini Neill and Allen, 1949. Enjoy!🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thanks! It was/is good times. Just one old straight white guy and I feel great not being a judgmental fck-wit! 😁

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It is fun. Nature is healing and snakes of all animals (we see many more other creatures) tend to lend themselves to confidence & outside as a safe space is empowering. We used to take homeless inner city kids to camp (two-weeks) but they sold the camp & we all got our educations-so did our kids!

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#nottriangulumtuesday. L. elapsoides (Holbrook, 1838) from Maryland. Enjoy the northernmost MD Scarlet Kingsnake🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I do #transtrips. I take non-binary; often autistic/disabled people outside herping. Here is my nephew/niece Mave in what I'd call a state of adoration upon finding & interacting w/ their first L. t. triangulum (Lacépéde, 1789). 29th April 26 my buddy Chuck & I found him again four-yrs. later, same🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Before iNat was a thing, Scott was told to visit me here in DC and consult. I told Scott to enable hiding geolocation for sensitive/vulnerable to poaching species & have actual experts for each taxa verify everything or it would not work. Scott spent two-days here & he implemented each. Blame me😁

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hey Tom, I'm Ted. DC-based retired herpetologist etc., yet still actively herping and publishing... Over the decades I have many recaptures. It is super fun to find a snake and then see it again four-5-10-yrs. later. Here is one of many recaptures (I had a four-yr. recapture a few weeks ago). Enjoy.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Happy #snakesaturday! Some Red Ratsnakes, Pantherophis guttatus (Linnaeus, 1766). Rare and/or state endangered in their northernmost range; MD, DEL and NJ. If you know where to look and when to look they can still be found. It's their mating season up here.🐍 Many get run over by cars😔💔

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

LC LOL! They are so endangered that even captive born and bred babies require a federal permit to cross state lines. A federal permit is required to even have one. They are state listed everywhere as EN or CR. How are you doing? Hope well.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Happy #frogfriday! Have a free polytype of the Forest Harlequin Poison Frog Oophaga sylvatica (Funkhouser, 1956). The individual was photographed in Ecuador. Painting by me, enjoy!🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

End of #worldfrogweek. Three-striped Poison Frog, Ameerega trivittata (Spix, 1824). Individual from Perú. They don't always have three-stripes. Enjoy!🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Missed a couple of #worldfrogweek. So here have an Ameerega boliviana (Boulenger, 1902). Painting by me. Enjoy!🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

#Worldfrogdy! Enjoy an extinct Atelopus sorianoi La Marca, 1983, Mi Pana. The time I spent w/ Enrique looking for this toad hasn't been published. It may still exist in nature.🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Happy Day #2 of #worldfrogweek! My friend and coauthor Diego holding the book I edited/wrote much of and illustrated-Ángela M. Suárez-Mayorga, me & Diego Alejandro Gómez Hoyos authored this chapter. Andinobates Bombetes (Myers and Daly, 1980) from Colombia.🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Me skateboarding freestyle in Ocean City, MD contest circa 1979. Pics by my Dad R.I.P.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Happy day No.1 of #worldfogweek! Ranitomeya amazonica (Schulte, 1999). Enjoy! Painting by me.🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Found this male dung beetle by milksnake Den No.1🐍 from the other day, circa Washington, DC.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy #frogfriday! Have an unusual polytype of Oophaga sylvatica (Funkhouser, 1956) from Colombia.🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

14 celsius & overcast... My buddy Chuck had his doubts. One new milksnake at Den No.1 & a recapture at Den No.2 after 4-yrs. Not a bad way to start the morning. Enjoy!🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Many snakes from the very-high-elevation equatorial Andes to the high-latitude of Canada are cold wet tolerant & active in those conditions. Here is proof; ~9 degree Celsius at ~2400 meters elevation. I give you Cata in Colombia & an Erythrolamprus. Amazing, perhaps unexpected huh? Pic by me🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#toadtuesday. Not sure of their current nomenclature. They were from my time spent in the Brazilian Atlantic fragmented forests "Mata Atlântica, Brasil". Very large & very cool toads. Big shout out to Conservation International for funding my work there & all the friends I met & made there💚🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#timberrattlesnaktuesday. "Mouse". A nearly 5-foot "Gold" Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus Linnaeus, 1758 that visits our compound in Shenandoah Co. VA in GWNF inholding. He's never bothered anyone in decades; he just spends a month each year under some of our buildings eating mice. He's good.🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Lauren, Moi & Ika Enomenga and me, all Huaorani Ecuadorian Indians. Just sayin' you had to have been there.

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

10-yrs. ago I suggested to Steve, John & his wife and James and a few trusted others "let's go find the ultra-rare 'Day-glow' magenta mole king snake". A site now cleaned-up-no more AC study transect. W/O AC and if you are very skilled you might have a few days in a year to find them on the crawl.🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Lampropeltis rhombomaculata. Pic credit J. Lee (but I found the snake & showed him the site). The habitat is now a Royal Farms gas station parking lot. I moved 2-pairs, females gravid to a nearby safe place that won't be developed w/ MD-DNR permission. Makes me want to listen to Rush "subdivisions"🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Kevin Enge discovered this so-called "Mosaic Eastern Kingsnake" Lampropeltis g. getula (Linnaeus, 1766) on an island off Georgia, USA (in the 1980's). A few years ago (2022?) a friend found & took this pic on the mainland 11 walking miles from any paved rd. in North Carolina of a "Mosaic" king.🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🐍A friends basement foundation where all snakes (all, but these are just black ratsnakes) and are others welcome inside & outside of "The Beltway" for decades in his home. Generations of friendly snakes. Don't drain "The Swamp".🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Evidenced. The Scarlet King Snake (Lampropeltis elapsoides (Holbrook, 1838) occurs in MD and sporadically northward in rare habitat dependent isolation. Kahn T. & Andrews B. in accepted manuscript. "50-yrs. of Fieldwork". Photo credit Mike Lathrum (MD-DNR Natural Resources' Police) & Ted R. Kahn. 🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Happy #milksnakemonday! Eggs & two polymorphic Eastern milksnakes (Lacépède, 1789) were found <5 meters apart, November 2017 (apparently each from double egg clutches). Each is from different genetically related parents. Why such atypical variation? Welp, working on the publication. Pics by me.🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Happy #milksnakemonday! These two polymorphic Eastern milksnakes (Lacépède, 1789) were found under the same rock a few days apart in early June of 2011 circa Washington, DC in a parking lot. Pics by me. Don't drain "The Swamp"!🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Happy #frogfriday! Ranitomeya fantastica (Boulenger, 1884) polytype. Enjoy!🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Still #notfrogfriday. Ranitomeya fantastica (Boulenger, 1884) polytype. Painting by me. Enjoy!🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

#notfrogfriday Here, have a newly described poison frog; the Yaminawá Poison Frog, Ranitomeya ichapama sp. nov. As usual, some of my artwork was used. Enjoy!🐸

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Heterodon platirhinos Latreille in Sonnini and Latreille 1801. A Maryland Eastern Hognose Snake found on the crawl a few years ago in May. Photo by me.🐍

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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Missed #snakesaturday so #snakesunday! Enjoy a Washington, DC native, Den#1; it's going to be a long & productive Spring season methinks. Northern Copperhead (venomous), yet generally inofensive in daylight, at night, not so much & may be fussy. Also a scansorial🐍; a fancy word for semi-arboreal.

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