So Much Pingle

Hello everyone, and welcome to Episode Five!   In this episode I talk with Peter Mooney, a birder, world traveler, and herper from the era when it was called “snake hunting”.  A New Jersey native, Mr. Mooney served his country in Vietnam, and afterwards he spent time in teaching school in Jasper County, South Carolina.  Along the way he knew many of the old-school east coast herpers. I...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Episode Four!   My apologies for being a few days late, I was doing some out-of-state herping.  In New Jersey.  And it was great!  But that’s another story for another time. Back in January, I interviewed Bryan Hughes in the Peruvian Amazon, during a bit of afternoon downtime.  Brian and his wife Liz own and operate Rattlesnake Solutions, a Phoenix / Tucson com...

Hello again everyone!  Thanks so much for your support, and your kind comments and messages!  Much appreciated. This is the Episode of the Bushmaster!   This past January I sat down with Matt Cage in my tambo (AKA jungle hut) and we chatted about bushmasters (known locally as “ shushupes “.  This photo is an in situ shot of the first bushmaster that Matt and I found in 2013.  Since the...

Hello everyone and welcome back!  For Episode 2:  The Python Problem, I chat with Mike Rochford , who certainly has a unique perspective on the issue of Burmese pythons in the Everglades, and elsewhere in Florida.  I interviewed Mike back in January of 2020, and along with the skinny on Python bivittatus , he was kind enough to provide me with this photo, taken in Florida.  Burms are awesome serpe...

Hello everyone and welcome to the So Much Pingle Herpetology Podcast!  This first episode is short and sweet – just an introduction to the show that describes how this thing is gonna roll.  Conceived last summer and kicked off last winter, we’ll start off with some episodes recorded as far back as January.  I’m only a couple of months behind my target start date, thanks to a bit...