New video out!
The second full day in California ended up being slower...and I blame that in no small part on the March heatwave drying everything out. But despite that...still turned up what was possibly the best thing I could have found up in the mountains!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/pPgww6848YU

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New video out!
A midweek plant spotlight, on one of the famous chunky species of the Philippines: Nepenthes sibuyanensis!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/DXwqbt5pmSM

#nepenthes #tropicalpitcherplants #carnivorousplants #plants #botany #educational #strangeplants #rareplants #horticulture #gardening #nature #carltoncarnivores

New video out!
And...it's the first one from 2026! A proper visit to California, where the first full day in state gave up an exciting brand new lizard species, a very surprising predation event...and a species of snake I've been dying to see in the wild for years.
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/22U7CNYxpOU

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New video out!
And it's the final installment from 2025...the driest I've yet encountered the eastern Plains region being, but despite that salamanders still showed up (including a new subspecies for the channel), as well as a new skink species!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/-_mhxoh77I8

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New video out!
Almost wrapped up on last year's Midwest trip (one more video to come), and this one crossed Tennessee and southern Arkansas, finding two new amphibian species as well as a couple familiar critters.
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/V6DNTY3Mos4

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New video out!
This week's midweek plant highlight is one of my present favorite natural hybrids: Nepenthes x alisaputrana. Giagantic, colorful, also so far in my experience extremely easy and fairly rapid to grow, it's an amazing intersection between one of the genus giants and another highly prized endemic in the same region.
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/XW4QGGfu53A

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New video out!
A relatively short one again, as on this day we attempted visiting Mammoth Cave!...but the coincidence of it being during the government shutdown last year meant, the cave itself was not actually open (a disappointment that will hopefully be remedied in near future). Despite that, the surrounding area was still traversable, and on the hikes there were a few critters that did in fact make themselves known!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/Zt0HiMKOC-w

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New video out!
This week's midweek plant highlight is one of the few tuberous sundews that I would fully call beginner-friendly: Drosera menziesii! A climber with spectacularly large flowers, and way more tolerant of grower slipups than most of this group is!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/V5cNh06A56k

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On the heels of Coyote Awareness Week...it's National Coyote Day!
The most widespread member of the genus Canis in North America presently, one of the most adaptable major predators in the ecosystem, and for good reason our mascot here at Carlton Carnivores (say hi to Embron in the last photo!). Unfortunately...also one of the most persecuted mammals in the country and fraught with an obscene number of misconceptions and myths that pervade society despite all evidence to the contrary and attempts to educate otherwise. Why? Partly because our Western European predominant culture still pushes the notion that any predatory animal is automatically a direct threat to people and property, and that influence builds stories about monsters that lure pets into the dark, "vermin" (a terrible curse word) that are overpopulated even when all research says otherwise and pose a threat to other wildlife (when really they're just some of our best remaining population control for things like rabbits, voles, raccoons, and yes as much as you might hate to hear it...deer and turkeys), and so many other nonsense tales that paint Canis latrans as some hungry evil out to get you.
The reality is more along the lines of what indigenous people taught for thousands of years before colonialism moved in: Coyote is a wily, adaptable creature, curious and playful but wary, cautious, a critical cog in the fabric of nature and a creature that deserves respect, not derision.

#canis #canislatrans #coyote #mammals #animals #educational #wildlife #nature #conservation #carltoncarnivores

New video out!
We're back to the Midwest trip again, and the second day...while a snake did manage to make it into this vid, it's the salamanders that steal the spotlight. Two brand new, chunky lifer species in fact!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/bVIGU6wZw-w

#herping #herpetology #salamanders #amphibians #snakes #turtles #reptiles #animals #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #educational #biology #zoology #carltoncarnivores