By Herp News Rescuers spot the disoriented, exhausted animal under a building, then gradually guide it back to the water Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Aug 15
Aug 15
Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extinction
By Herp News In a large room that used to house aquatic mammals at the Minnesota Zoo, Erik Runquist holds up a vial and says, “Here are its eggs.” I peer inside and see small specks, pale with a dot of brown at the top; they look like a single grain of cous cous or […]
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Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hiding out in Andean cloud forests (photos)
By Herp News While the olinguito looks like a wild, tree-climbing teddy bear with a cat’s tail, it’s actually the world’s newest mammalian carnivore. The remarkable discovery—the first mammal carnivore uncovered in the Western Hemisphere since the 1970s—was found in the lush cloud forests of the Andes, a biodiverse region home to a wide-range of […]
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kingsnake.com is headed to Daytona!
kingsnake.com is on the road to Daytona! The kingsnake.com Zombiehunter truck is loaded up with “I Brake For Snakes” bumper stickers and RodentPro coupons and is en route to the National Reptile Breeders Expo in Daytona Beach, Florida. To get your free kingsnake.com bumper sticker and RodentPro discount coupon, find us outside the Ocean Center […]
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Assam Police arrest five for smuggling of rare lizard
By Herp News Police in Assam have arrested five out of six persons for smuggling the rare Tokay Gecko lizard, thought to cure cancer. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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By Herp News Byline: Local cafe owner Jacci Jourdan and son Hector, who run the Fat Apple Cafe at Porthallow, like to raise money for local charities through a weekly book swap held in their cafe, and recently they presented a cheque to The Lizard lifeboat station. Page Content: These important funds allow the lifeboat […]
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Toad backpacks a new weapon against extinction
Biologists with the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) have suited up the continent’s most endagered toad with a little backpack in an effort to prevent the species from going extinct. The backpack holds a radio transmitter that will be used to track the toads in their range. Photo: US Dept. of the Interior …read […]
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Police nab exotic lizard on the lam in Camden
By Herp News Posted Aug. 14, 2013, at 11:36 a.m. Last modified Aug. 14, 2013, at 4:36 p.m. Police caught an exotic lizard, identified as a South American Tegu, Tuesday afternoon near the Megunticook River in Camden. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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