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Exploring The Karkloof In Search Of Reptiles And Amphibians
It really had been a long time coming since I’d made a concerted effort to put some field herping into the “Midlands” area just inland of Pietermaritzburg. It was 2014 when I last visited the Karkloof region on a weekend herping trip filled with rain and mud – less than ideal conditions.
I set out on Saturday morning to a small privately owned patch of forest owned by a new friend I’d met on Instagram of all places. Completely off the grid smack bang in the middle of some pristine mistbelt forest a really great place for all sorts of reptiles, as I soon found out.
Species list included:
- Bradypodion sp “karkloof” – Dwarf Chameleon part of the thamnobates/melanocephalum complex (Read more here)
- Duberria lutrix – Common Slug Eater
- Lycodonomorphus rufulus – Brown Water Snake
- Philothamnus natalensis occidentalis – Western Natal Green Snake
- Tropidosaura montana natalensis – Common Mountain Lizard
Bradypodion sp “karkloof” – Dwarf Chameleon. From Karkloof Forest, Kwa Zulu Natal.
Bradypodion sp “karkloof” – Dwarf Chameleon. From Karkloof Forest, Kwa Zulu Natal.
Bradypodion sp “karkloof” – Dwarf Chameleon. From Karkloof Forest, Kwa Zulu Natal.
These chameleons although not their own distinctive species show morphological differences from the chameleons found in Nottingham Road and those found in Pietermaritzburg and Durban.
Duberria lutrix – Common Slug Eater
Lycodonomorphus rufulus – Brown Water Snake
Lycodonomorphus rufulus – Brown Water Snake
Philothamnus natalensis occidentalis – Western Natal Green Snake
Tropidosaura montana natalensis – Common Mountain Lizard
Tropidosaura montana natalensis – Common Mountain Lizardhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BooBorCgTcg
