Earn a special community badge if you can find the hidden reptiles!

Ross_Scope

Hello there  

Today is Reptile Awareness Day, which gives reptile fanatics and animal lovers alike the chance to show their love for the 10,700 species, as well as educate people about reptiles and the key issues they currently face, such as habitat loss and the threat of extinction. The annual event also  promotes learning about different types of reptiles, their natural habitats, and the ecological threats they face.

Can you find the hidden reptile? 

now, because we are a super cool community of people, we decided we would have a bit of fun on Reptile Awareness Day. We have a challenge for you.

At the top of each discussion category on the community, you will see that there are discussions marked with the "announce" tag. The community team has hidden a picture of a reptile in 5 of these discussions across the community, not including this one.

Your challenge is to find each reptile and comment in the discussion you found it in to prove you've found it. Once you've found all 5, come back here and comment to let us know you have completed the game. The photo of the reptile will be edited into the opening or most recent post of the discussion at the time of writing.

All the posts that contain the reptile photo will be by me, and if you wish to see a list of our categories so you can try figuring out which one I may have hidden a reptile in, you can find that here.

On offer for anybody who completes the game is a special community badge, called "Reptile Finder".

To get you started, here's a clue to one of the discussions that contains a hidden reptile... if you like Dennis the Menace, this discussion is for you.

Learn along the way

Underneath each reptile picture, there will be a link to a reptile related resource that we think you'll find interesting  

Best of luck  

chiarieds

Completed @Ross_Scope

roberttaylor570

Found one here too  @Ross_Scope Have I missed one or found them all?

Cher_Inactive

oooh there's 5 in total - did you manage to find them?

and well done @chiarieds !! You are our very own Crocodile Dundee 

Ami2301

Found them all ?

chiarieds

Well done Ami, we got there!

Hi @roberttaylor570 - the reptile on this page doesn't count. You might find it a little easier to find the last 2 you need by now looking at 'announcements' on the most recent of discussions....gentle hint so you can be a 'Reptile finder' too.

roberttaylor570

@Ross_Scope You hid the last one well.  Found all 5.

Ross_Scope

Thank you so much to all of you who have taken part so far, you are well worthy of the badge, which I will start handing out sometime today  

For anyone else, as well as the clue in the opening post, I will give you a clue to another of the discussions... you may enjoy reading this one if you're sporty...  

Ami2301

Thank you @chiarieds nothing can beat us 3 reptile hunters ?

Chloe_Scope

Love this @Ross_Scope! 

66Mustang

I’ve found 3 so far...trying not to cheat by going through all the recent discussions...any more clues?

66Mustang

1 more to find

66Mustang

Yay I found all five!!

@roberttaylor570 the last one for me was the same as yours I believe, I agree it was well hidden.

Ross_Scope

@chiarieds @roberttaylor570 @Ami2301 @66Mustang

You should now all have your Reptile Finder badge Thank you for taking part, and well done!

If you haven't taken part yet, you still can  

chiarieds

Thank you @Ross_Scope - the badge looks very nice, &  a good competition.

66Mustang

Yay! I agree it was a great idea for a competition

Ross_Scope

Thank you @66Mustang and @chiarieds, it was enjoyable to put together and I'm delighted you took part.

And we have the artistic genius of @Adrian_Scope  to thank for the badge, it was his design  

Ami2301

Not just saying this because I like building up my badge collection... ?

But could there be more competitions, like once a month or every few months ?

Ross_Scope

We will certainly keep that in mind @Ami2301  

Everyone loves games!