Kruger National Park Reptile Challenge - Battle of the Sexes

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Leopard Tortoise - 20 Points

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Leopard Tortoise Geochelone pardalis

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Flap-Necked Chameleon - 30 Points

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Flap-Necked Chameleon Chamaeleo dilepis

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Near Lower Sabie 2008

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Sunset Dam

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Lower Sabie Camp


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Water Monitor - 20 Points

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Water Monitor Varanus niloticus

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Makhadzi Loop

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Lower Sabie

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Sunset Dam

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Luvhuvhu Bridge

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Rock Monitor - 30 Points

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Rock Monitor Varanus albigularis albigularis

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Shitlave Dam
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Southern Kruger

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Faai Loop

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Tamboti


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Southern Kruger

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Reptile with a Kill - 240 Points

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Reptile with a Kill: Boomslang Dispholidus typus

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Variegated Bush Snake (Spotted Bush Snake) - 40 Points

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Variegated Bush Snake (Spotted Bush Snake) Philothamnus semivariegatus

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Mlondozi Picnic Spot

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Crocodile Bridge Area

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2-in-1: Nile Crocodile & Serrated Hinged Terrapin - 80 Points

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2-in-1: Nile Crocodile & Serrated Hinged Terrapin

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Sabie low water bridge

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Southern Tree Agama - 30 Points

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Southern Tree Agama Acanthocercus atricollis

Acanthocercus atricollis are large (120–150 mm snout–vent length), diurnal, arboreal lizards that are sexually dimorphic in size and colouration. Mature breeding males are larger than females and have a bright blue head and throat and a broad yellow-green vertebral stripe, while females remain olive-coloured with black marbling. Their grey-brown skin that provides cryptic camouflage against the bark of trees.
Tree agamas are classic ambush foragers. They waste only 4% of their time moving. When stationary, they sit on tree trunks, on lateral branches and occasionally, on the ground. Their diet is dominated by ants and beetles.

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(Male) Lower Sabie Rest Camp

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Lower Sabie

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Around Olifant's look-out

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Speke's Hinged-Back Tortoise - 50 points

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Speke's Hinged-Back Tortoise - Kinixys spekii

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Berg n Dal

An adult Speke's Hinged-back Tortoise (Kinixys spekii ) from Berg n Dal Picnic spot. A small hinged tortoise, with a flattened shell. What looks like a crack on its carapace is the hinge that allows the shell to close and protect the hind legs and tail.
In the genus Kinixys (Hingebacks) the hinge has evolved on the carapace instead of the plastron and lies inbetween the second and third costals. It allows the tortoises to close the hind quarters of their shells.


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South-Eastern Green Snake - 50 points

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South-Eastern Green Snake (Green Water Snake) - Philothamnus hoplogaster

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