Help - research on Irian Jayas

[AndrewSeike]

Hi everyone,

Once again I'm working on another project. I'd love your help if possible. I need pictures of Irian Jayas top down photos (bird's eye view).

If you have any (or can take them of your skinks) please send to:

andrewseike@seikereptiles.com

Thank you so much. I'll make sure to credit the picture to you in an up and coming article.

Best regards,

Andrew

[Phantom]

How come you want only top down shots?

[LittleFoot]

Andrew, let me know if you can use any of these, if you can i'll email them to you...or i can take more pics of him after he sheds.

[russman]

Are you at all interested in Irian Jaya 'hybrid' photos? Just curious because I have one. (adopted him- I am saying nothing of whether hybridization is good or bad).

[Zach]

How come you want only top down shots?

He's likely looking for consistent traits as IJ's are poorly understood, researched, and described. GO ANDREW!

I'll send you some aerial shots of my three as soon as I can.

[MartinsPerson]

I'll get those out to you asap. You rock Andrew!

[Leigh]

Andrew, do you require recent photos and did you want some form of measurement in them?or are good clear full body shots straight down all you need?

[AndrewSeike]

You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the interest. I definitely need all your help. AS MANY PICTURES AS POSSIBLE.

Leigh,

I need just straight top down (bird's eye view) skinks should be straight as possible in a line.

Zach is completely right. I'm doing some scale research and need to see if I can find something that's worth noting. Still even having morphology done on as many IJ's as possible well help me understand them better. Sure I've seen hundreds if not thousands by now but it's not like I took the effort to take pictures of every one of them. I should've. I think I'll start now with all your help.

[AndrewSeike]

Hi Littlefoot!

The last picture is perfect but even more so with the complete tail. If you can take a large sized photo the better so I can zoom in and do some examination.

Thanks again!

Andrew

[AndrewSeike]

Hi Phantom,

I have around 6-10 articles I'm writing and all are in various states of completion.

I have a hybrid/intergrade article that's nearing completion (I still need confirmed pictures so RUSSMAN PLEASE SEND THAT PIC- i'll give you credit for it of course) and a Northern Identification article that's been done for around six months but I haven't put it up yet on my website.

There's tons of stuff I need to finish up.

I'll let you guys know what I find sooner or later. It's just long term work and research.

thanks!

Andrew

[AndrewSeike]

Also if you guys can take pictures of the backs so I can see close details that would be even more helpful.

Thanks again for all your trouble.

Zach - I'd really like photos of your beautiful IJ's

Thanks for the support,

Andrew

[Richard.C]

looking forward to reading your articles andrew,cant help u with any ij shots as unfortunatly cant have any exotics in aus,keep up the great work

[Drew]

[Drew]

i hope this helps. this is Boris my 10mo IJ and a BTS of my friends.

[Fatal_S]

Drew, I don't think your friends skinker is an IJ... I may be wrong, but with the arrow-like stripes, the brown spots on the sides, the stubbyer tail, and the cleaner legs, I'm thinking Eastern, or at least a cross.

[Leigh]

Fatal there's faint eye bands as well, just to add to the evidence hee hee

[Fatal_S]

Very true, thanks.

[Drew]

Drew, I don't think your friends skinker is an IJ... I may be wrong, but with the arrow-like stripes, the brown spots on the sides, the stubbyer tail, and the cleaner legs, I'm thinking Eastern, or at least a cross.

might be a cross

[JWSR]

Andrew.............

Would you confirm if you got my pics, and if they were what you wanted?

[Brigget]

Here are a few I love the blue-lilly pic it shows how differant they really are.