Archive for 'Reptiles'

This friend is a rat snake species, commonly called the bamboo red snake, found in mid to upper-level elevations of forested hills in southeastern Asia, ranging from evergreen tropical to dry seasonal forests depending on the subspecies and locality.

Eumeces schneideri, commonly known as Schneider’s skink or the Berber skink, is a species of skink endemic to Central Asia, Western Asia, and North Africa.

This is one of our two Uromastyx. Uromastyx lizards inhabit a discontinuous range stretching through most of North Africa, the Middle East and across south-central Asia to the Indian subcontinent.

Meet Big Red, our Red Tegu from South Africa.

Red Tegus are found in semi-tropical grasslands and semi-deserts in northern Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Bolivia. Tegus are omnivorous, foraging for a wide range of foods, including fruit, seeds, various arthropods, small vertebrates, carrion, and eggs.

Red Tegus are born a dull reddish brown, color that increases as the tegu matures. Males generally develop their adult coloration at 18 -24 months of age, and the typical adult female coloration is reddish brown ...

Carlos is one of our leopard geckos.

Leopard geckos are popular pet lizards. They are ground dwelling geckos found in the deserts of Asia and throughout Pakistan, to parts of northern India. We have many leopard geckos at Amazing Animal Ambassadors in all different colors and patterns. Pictured above is one of our geckos named Carlos.

Meet our Children’s Python.

These pythons get their name not because they are small and tend to have docile personalities, but in honor of John George Children, a 19th century zoological curator at the British Museum. Children’s Pythons are known for their smaller size compared to other python species. These pythons have a reputation for being manageable not only because of their smaller size, but because of their generally calm demeanor.

Meet Brutus and Caesar, our Ball Pythons.

Ball Pythons originated and live in the dry grasses of the Savanna desert or along the forest edges. They are native to the Sudanese subprovince west of the Nile, in southern Sudan, the Bahrel Ghazal and Nuba Mountains Region, from Senegal to Sierra Leone in West Africa, and in the Ivory Coast and some parts of Central Africa. Ball Pythons can climb into trees, but they rarely do. In the wild, they tend to ...

Dixie is a juvenile American alligator. They are one of 24 different species of Crocodilians and are found in 11 different states here in the United States. They are not legal pets since they can grow to be 12 feet long and are very dangerous.

Meet our Pueblan Milksnake.

The Pueblan Milksnakes are commonly found in southern Puebla, eastern Morelos, and northern Oaxaca, Mexico. These snakes are also often found as household pets. The color variations are many so it is very hard to distinguish between a Pueblan Milksnake and a Honduran Milk Snake unless you know the parentage and location they are from.

They will eat anything that they can overpower and swallow, either warm blooded or cold blooded including venomous snakes. They are nocturnal so ...

Meet Copper, our Western Hognose Snake.

Hognose snakes are relatively small, stout-bodied snakes found throughout the Great Plains states of the U.S. from Canada to Mexico. Their color and pattern is highly variable from subspecies to subspecies, although most specimens appear much like the infamous rattlesnake to the untrained eye.

These snakes get their common name from the modified rostral (nose) scales that are formed in an upturned manner, providing a very “hog-like” look. Additionally, this adaptation makes these snakes adept burrowers, ...