Forked Gallery

CAN-4011

CAN-4011
Black-tailed Rattlesnake - coiled showing rattle - smelling or tasting the air with its tongue
Chiricahua Mountains - Arizona - USA
Crotalus molossus
Distribution: Texas -New Mexico and Arizona into central Mexico
Venomous
John Cancalosi

© John Cancalosi / ardea.com

America, American, Amphibians And Reptiles, Black Tailed, Forked, North America, North American, Poisonous, Rattle Snake, Rattle Snakes, Reptile, Reptiles, Scenting, Single, Smelling, Snake, Tongue, Tongues, United States, Venomous, Wild Life

CAN-3982

CAN-3982
Black-tailed Rattlesnake - smelling / tasting the air with its tongue
Chiricahua Mountains - Arizona - USA
Crotalus molossus
Distribution: Texas - New Mexico and Arizona into central Mexico
Venomous
John Cancalosi

© John Cancalosi / ardea.com

America, American, Amphibians And Reptiles, Black Tailed, Forked, North America, North American, Poisonous, Rattle Snake, Rattle Snakes, Reptile, Reptiles, Scenting, Single, Smelling, Snake, Tongue, Tongues, United States, Venomous, Wild Life

Palawan Monitor Lizard - rests on a path with its tongue outstretched (the tongue has a highly developed olfactory sense) to smell a visitor

ANZ-1315
Palawan Monitor Lizard - rests on a path with its tongue outstretched (the tongue has a highly developed olfactory sense) to smell "a visitor"
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park - Sabang - Palawan - Philippines - February
Varanus marmoratus
A former subspecies of Varanus salvator now considered as a part of same-name complex of species but a separate species
Andrey Zvoznikov
Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

© Andrey Zvoznikov/ardea.com