Ollie Thomas

New paper just out, led by @TheReremouse! Want to catch bats over water, without the drawbacks of having to actually go into the water? This paper demonstrates a novel way to string mistnets over waterbodies using rope access techniques.

@SanneGovaert I think you hid it pretty well 😉

@LizardOllie Wow what an amazing experience! (Does that sound as I am jealous or can I hide it pretty well?)

Tales of Scales is back from the Covid hiatus! Let’s kick things off with some unsolicited Olm facts! Link below! #OlmMyGod #OlmlyFans #TheOneAndOlmly talesofscales.co.uk/2021/08/15/olm…

Want to know more about what #anacondas eat? Save The Snakes' Advisory Committee member @stevoallain and @LizardOllie recently published a review on the #diet of anacondas and we are excited to share it. Read more at: savethesnakes.org/2021/08/11/wha…

Happy #WorldSnakeDay the perfect day for our new paper - a review of all known prey items of anacondas (Eunectes)! Despite what Nicki Minaj may have you believe, bun consumption by anacondas does not currently feature in the literature... 🥯🐍 researchgate.net/publication/35…

New paper out today (not an April fools joke...) on sleeping site fidelity in three species of Neotropical herpetofauna in Ecuador! Link below for anyone interested 💤🦎🐸! researchgate.net/publication/35…

Just found another reptile species not previously recorded south of the Murrumbidgee River - the Royal or Regal Striped Skink (Ctenotus regius). This one is eating an insect it stole from an ant #wildoz

Ranitas arrechitas 𝒜ℊ𝒶𝓁𝓎𝒸𝒽𝓃𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝓅𝓊𝓇𝓇ℯ𝓁𝓁𝒾 🐸

Just received my first academic citation in this new paper! Look out for me masquerading as “[23]” researchgate.net/publication/34…

Meet Brookesia nana, the Nano-Chameleon, probably the world's smallest amniote vertebrate! We just published its discovery in @SciReports: nature.com/articles/s4159… doi.org/10.1038/s41598… Read more about it here: markscherz.com/archives/4800 📸Frank Glaw

No parece, pero es. Un escarabajo de la familia Cerambycidae.

It's the #FrogOfTheDay you've all been waiting for! The amazing, the spectacular, the ✨R O U N D ✨, #23 Rhombophryne testudo Boettger, 1880! I hope you are ready to learn SO MUCH about one of my favourite #MadagascarFrogs of all time!

These beautiful eyes belong to a bush frog named after friends, PK Utthaman the eminent photographer& KV Utthaman a senior forest officer. The beautiful silver & ebony ocular venation marks the Utthaman’s Bush Frog. You decide if it is the most spectacular eye that I have posted!

the cutie under the bed :)

Meet today's #FrogOfTheDay #11 Mantella madagascariensis (Grandidier, 1872), the first species of 'poison arrow' frog described from Madagascar! A feat of spectacular #ConvergentEvolution among the #MadagascarFrogs 📸 Vences&Glaw, CalPhotos

New method of snake locomotion?! 🤔 Lasso locomotion in Boiga irregularis published today! There’s nothing those brown tree snakes can’t do sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/…

My colleagues and I have discovered intense, neon-green fluorescence in the web-footed gecko, Pachydactylus rangei! It's produced by modified iridophores and is amongst the brightest fluorescence in vertebrates. Published today in @SciReports! More here: markscherz.com/archives/4715