Wildlife watching at a wetland area is a fun summer time activity.
Reptiles are cold-blooded vertebrates. Their bodies are covered with scales. They lay eggs or give birth to live young.
You're sitting on a dock, minding your own business, when you notice a snake swimming by in the water.
You can find this snake in oak savannas, prairies, marshes, old field, and under trash in vacant city lots.
Many people mistake this snake for a venomous copperhead. We don't have copperheards in Wisconsin.
Both false and southern map turtles are very wary and will flee at the slightest disturbance.
The females of this species have large broad heads and jaws adapted for cracking mollusk and crayfish shells. Ouch!
With a name like racerunner, you'd have to be fast. And, as their name suggests, racerunners are very fast.
The name for this lizard is appropriate. When it's caught sometimes its tail breaks into many pieces like glass.
Softshells are easy to recognize by their long, pointed snouts and scuteless top shells (carapaces).