The Wildlife Code

Serotine bats roosted together.✨🖤🦇

The Pinchot Sycamore is Connecticut's largest tree and the largest American sycamore in New England. Located in Simsbury, Connecticut, the 200 to 500-year-old giant measures over 100 feet tall with a 28-foot trunk circumference and a 120-foot canopy spread. The American sycamore is a massive, fast-growing deciduous tree known for its distinct, mottled, exfoliating bark that peels in shades of white, tan, and green. Native to North America, they are among the largest eastern hardwoods, living in moist soils, parks, and along streams. Photo by Erin Breglia

Bobcat with juvenile gator - capture by Brenda Stelzer. Florida's native wildlife were more than capable of maintaining balanced ecosystems that could persist for thousands of years. But add invasive species (one in the Everglades feeds on both of these in addition to eating large numbers of the small mammals that are the normal prey for bobcats), habitat loss, roadkill, pollution, wetland drainage and other factors that our species brings to Florida's ecosystems, and everything can go out of whack. Bobcats in particular are declining in Florida for all the above reasons - one of the only states in the U.S. where that is happening.

Imantodes inornatus tambient conocida como Culebra Bejuquilla Café o Blunt-headed Tree Snake Es una serpiente arborícola y nocturna, muy tranquila y poco agresiva.

Durante el día suele permanecer inmóvil entre la vegetación para pasar desapercibida.

Se encuentra desde el sur de México hasta Panamá.

No representa peligro para las personas. Posee veneno débil utilizado para capturar pequeñas presas, pero no es considerada peligrosa para humanos.

Estas serpientes cumplen un papel importante en el equilibrio de los ecosistemas tropicales, ayudando al control de poblaciones de pequeños animales.