Quotes About Reptiles

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

Australia / New Guinea today has no equally large mammals, in fact no mammal larger than 100-pound kangaroos. But Australia / New Guinea formerly had its own suite of diverse big mammals, including giant kangaroos, rhinolike marsupials called diprotodonts and reaching the size of a cow, and a marsupial "leopard." It also formerly had a 400-pound ostrichlike flightless bird, plus some impressively big reptiles, including a one-ton lizard, a giant python, and land-dwelling crocodiles.

There are sixty-three species of bats in Mexico, ranging from the three-inch-long bug-eating free-tailed bat to the carnivorous spectral bat, with a three-foot wingspan, which feeds on reptiles, small mammals, and other bats.

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Where cobras come from. And not the hot ones, like Ian.

And stay away from bushes. Why? Dude, this is South Africa home of the cobras. And I don't mean the hot ones like Ian.

I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.

Over in her student project garden, the usually sweet Poison Ivy was yelling at the reptile warriors. "Do. NOT. Trample. My. PLANTS!!!" she warned. When they didn't listen, Poison Ivy reached into her bag for the flower bombs she had created in Mr. Fox's class. She lobbed the weapons at them and watched with glee as they exploded, creating a net of thorny rose vines that captured several enemies at once.

There were stories that the tunnels went for miles. There were monsters down there, blind reptiles and insects that had never seen the light, there were hospitals and brothels, and horrible things, piles of the offal from VC atrocities, dead babies, assassinated priests.

In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up stars of fretted leaves like the green skins of reptiles, and waved feathery yellow bamboos with a rustle like paper.

Even the most dreaded of poisonous snakes is a kindly disposed fellow at heart.

She'd learned from Rey that snakes often traveled in pairs, so she was careful to look before she stepped

Like tiny islands on the horizon, they can vanish in rough seas. Even in calm weather, their coral gradually erodes, pickled by salt and heat. Yet they form the shoals of a life. Some offer safe lagoons and murmuring trees. Others crawl with pirates and reptiles. Together they connect a self with the mainland and society. Plot their trail and a mercurial past becomes visible. Memories feel geological in their repose, solid and true, the bedrock of consciousness.

Over 2,000 reptiles await you.

Lizards flashed up the pine-trunks like living emerald necklaces.

Humans are mammals and their red blood cells are similar in that they do not have nuclei. Reptiles and birds have nucleated red blood cells, we do

not for the crocs.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

Is there 'gators in the river?" "Mister, there ain't no water in Florida without 'gators, 'less you got a tub of it in your house. And one's liable to get in there too if you leave the door open.

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.