By Herp News Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AAA' rating to the following notes issued by two closed-end funds managed by Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC. Fitch also affirms the existing notes and man Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Nov 21
Nov 21
Snake vision sharpened by danger
A new study from the University of Waterloo shows that snakes can optimize their vision by controlling the blood flow in their eyes when they perceive a threat. Kevin van Doorn, PhD, and Professor Jacob Sivak, from the Faculty of Science, discovered that the coachwhip snake’s visual blood flow patterns change depending on what’s in […]
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Snake vision not as bad as once thought
A new study from the University of Waterloo shows that snakes can optimize their vision by controlling the blood flow in their eyes when they perceive a threat. Kevin van Doorn, PhD, and Professor Jacob Sivak, from the Faculty of Science, discovered that the coachwhip snake’s visual blood flow patterns change depending on what’s in […]
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Reptile Domicile trying to get up and running – Thu, 21 Nov 2013 PST
By Herp News The idea for a reptile rescue came to Tonya Hinshaw when she picked up two geckos that were advertised on Craigslist. The critters were malnourished, and their little terrarium was dirty and littered with dead cockroaches. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Strange mouth-brooding frog driven to extinction by disease
By Herp News An unusual species of mouth-brooding frog was likely driven to extinction by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), making an unusual example of ‘extinction by infection’, argue scientists writing in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. Rhinoderma rufum has not been seen in the wild since 1980. Go to Source …read more Read more […]
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