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San Diego Zoo
Ben and I decided to check out the San Diego zoo on Friday before the Anaheim show. I love to visit different zoos and always try to get behind the scenes tour from the herp house curators.  We were lucky enough to have Todd let us check out the off exhibit stuff.  They have some very cool projects, and the keepers are given the freedom to keep and breed the things they are interested in.  Of note to me were the boelens, the tree monitors, and of course the Fijian banded iguanas.  They had a ton of the Fiji island iguanas, but I didn't get any real good pictures of them.  They were housed off exhibit in wire cages, so it was tough to photo through.  It was a great day at the zoo and we saw some cool stuff.
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First reptile was this nice boelens
The boelens cage was nice and big
They were cruising around a bit
A young boelens off exhibit
Close up mugshot of the juvie
Different looking Angolan python
A couple juvenile Emerald tree boas
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Blue tree monitor profile
Nice green tree off exhibit
Green tree monitor on exhibit
Yellow tree monitor
Chinese three-striped box
Baja blue rock lizard
Beaded lizard on exhibit
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Off disply cobras are a bit excitable
Cool girdle-tailed lizard
Caiman lizards are impressive
Nice caiman lizard on display
Cool hood isle galapagos
Finch response in a galapagos
THE tortoise.  Cool shot
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Fly river turtles are cool
This freshie was tempromental
Some dwarf crocs
Male gharial
Underwater picture of the male
Lots of turtles in the gharial pond
Albino snapper
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Gila peeking out of his water bowl
Impressive gila colony
A juvenile gila, hatched at the zoo
Beautifula green mamba
Bad picture of a sweet gaboon
They have some cool island igs
Komodo, or John's dog as he is called
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These mang vipers were so cool
A couple matas
Mellers cham off exhibit
The mossy frog enclosure was cool
Here is a closeup of the mossy
Some oblonga
Some nice dimorphic palm vipers
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Pancake tortoise with skink
Some bowsprit torts
They had a few juvie sanzinia
Nice (but strikey) scrub python
Future doesn't look good for the SF garters
Strange softshell turtle
They have the smallest heads
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Amazing spider tortoises
These stars were sweet
Juvenile timor python, one of many
A twin-spot rattlesnake
Sweet juvenile woma python
Cool yellow morph of the Solomon island skink