By Herp News About 15 animals will be seized from the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Aug 08
Aug 08
Misplaced blame in N.B. python deaths: former Reptile Ocean employee
By Herp News Jean-Claude Savoie, the owner of the python that the RCMP says killed two boys in northern New Brunswick earlier this week, did government officials a favour by taking in the animal and several others, a former employee told Global News. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]
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Tortoise Capital Advisors Announces Distribution Dates and Amounts for Closed-End Funds
By Herp News Certain closed-end funds managed by Tortoise Capital Advisors declared the following distributions today: Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Endangered chimps and forest elephants found in rainforest to be logged for palm oil
By Herp News A biological survey of forests slated for destruction for a palm oil project in Cameroon has uncovered 23 species of large mammals, including the world’s most endangered chimpanzee subspecies, the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti). The project in question, operated by U.S.-based company Herakles Farms, has come under stiff criticism both locally […]
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Pet store linked to boys' python deaths to be searched
By Herp News The New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources has obtained a warrant to search the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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About 15 animals to be seized from site of boys' python deaths
By Herp News About 15 animals will be seized from the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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More science on why rattlesnakes are good
In yet more news about just why rattlesnakes are so vital to our ecology, the “magazine of the west,” Cowboys and Indians, tries to explain why human fear and persecution of these animals are so misguided: While it’s not especially natural to empathize with beady-eyed creatures that have been demonized throughout history and rounded up […]
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Canada’s reptile trade on the rise as expert warns of safety risk
By Herp News Organization has advocated that large constricting snakes be banned as pets for safety reasons, because they can carry disease and because they are stripped from their own habitat Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Monster lizard surprises city gardener
By Herp News It wasn't your garden-variety New Mexico lizard that Thomas Sullivan found hiding in the bushes. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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