Davidson College Herpetology Lab

04/09/2016

Reptile Day is starting! Come out from 10 to 1 to see some awesome animals!

04/07/2016

Reptile Day is just TWO DAYS AWAY!! Join us this Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm in the Blanche Knox Parker Garden!

Address for the event: 225 Concord Rd. Davidson, NC 28035

To accommodate for the expected chilly weather, some booths will be moved inside the lobby of the Dana science building! Plenty of booths (and animals) will still be in the Blanche Knox Parker Garden, and signs will point to the lobby of Dana!

Meet Cheerio, a crowd favorite! Cheerio is an eastern box turtle, the state reptile of North Carolina! His favorite foods include mice and cantaloupe. Box turtles are often found in residential areas as well as in fields and forests. If you ever find a box turtle, it's important to not take it home! However, if you find one crossing a road, you can move it in the direction that it's GOING! (not where it came from!)

04/05/2016

Reptile Day is coming up in just 5 days! Come join us between the Dana and Watson science buildings on the Davidson College campus this Saturday from 10 am- 1 pm! We will have over 35 species of reptiles and amphibians at the event!

Meet Ralph, our black rat snake in the H**p Lab! Ralph has lived with us in the lab for around 15 years. He loves eating mice and especially loves to climb! You may find him in one of the trees at Reptile Day, so keep your eyes peeled!

03/30/2016

Our annual Reptile Day is quickly approaching! The date is set for April 9 from 10 am to 1 pm. As in past years, the event will be in the Blanche Knox Parker Garden between the Dana and Watson Science buildings on the Davidson College Campus. We have a variety of organizations from the greater Charlotte area joining us this year, such as Discovery Place, the Schiele Museum, Carolina Reptile Rescue, and more! Of course, TONS of reptiles and amphibians will be present as well!

03/07/2016

H**petology friends in the Raleigh area, Reptile and Amphibian Day at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is coming up this Saturday March 12th! We will be there with our outreach tables, along with with awesome organizations from around the area! Check out their page here: https://goo.gl/hn6k6C and hope to see you all there! **pDay

01/10/2016

Hello everyone, despite all the efforts and SC Supreme court rulings, the developer there is still pushing to try to develop the last remaining natural area on Kiawah (Captain Sam’s Spit) and there is a petition to try and keep him from doing so. Here’s an article about it and the petition. I would greatly appreciate you signing the petition if you have 1 min of free time. It literally takes less than that.
Thanks very much
Davidson College H**petology Lab

Article about the issue: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20160108/PC16/160109464/petition-started-in-battle-over-capt-sam-x2019-s-spit

Petition: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/strand-feeding-dolphins

KIAWAH ISLAND — A grassroots petition has been launched online to try to persuade state leaders to stop a controversial development on Capt. Sam’s Spit.

08/03/2015

Need to brighten your day? Check out these diamondback terrapin hatchings from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center! Diamondback terrapins occupy unique ecological niche by living in the brackish water of tidal creeks. The DCHL travels to South Carolina twice annually to study the status of the terrapin population at Kiawah Island.

07/12/2015

One of our herpetology students, Joe Zhou, caught a hellbender and is now releasing it back into the stream. Watch for some cool underwater shots of the hellbender retreating back under the rocks.

07/12/2015

On July 2, the herpetology lab went on a hellbendering rampage! Hellbenders are a large type of salamander that are found in mountain streams in western North Carolina, northern Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, and up the Appalachian mountain chain into Pennsylvania and New York. More info about these interesting salamanders can be found on our website: http://bio.davidson.edu/herpcons/herps_of_NC/salamanders/Cryall/Cry_all.html
Otherwise, enjoy some of these pictures!

07/12/2015

What's an ideal vacation for herpetology students? Looking for herps of course! This weekend the herpetology lab went on a road trip to South Carolina to look for reptiles and amphibians. One of the places we visited was the Savannah River Ecological Laboratory, a beautiful place with lots of animals! Follow the link to learn more of what we found.
http://srel.uga.edu/outreach/ecoday/2014-2015/150710DC/index.htm

06/16/2015

Want more help identifying snakes? Watch this video with the lab's research manager Meagan Thomas

http://www.fox46charlotte.com/clip/11592491/identifying-snakes

06/08/2015

Check out some of the buzz around the Snakes of North Carolina app!

Davidson College Grads Create App that Identifies Snakes of NC Cyrus Bahram just graduated from Davidson College a few weeks ago, but worked in the herpetology lab as a student. Now he's hoping to share his knowledge of snakes with people all over North Carolina through an app he created with some of his classmates.

http://www.twcnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2015/06/7/davidson-college-grads-create-app-that-identifies-snakes-of-nc.html

Cyrus Bahram just graduated from Davidson College a few weeks ago, but worked in the herpetology lab as a student. Now he's hoping to share his knowledge of snakes with people all over North Carolina through an app he created with some of his classmates.