By Herp News The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), perhaps the most well-known of Madagascar’s endemic animals, is facing a “very high” risk of extinction in the wild. The Madagascar Section of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group reassessed the Red List status of ring-tailed lemurs and upgraded the species from Near-Threatened (2008) to Endangered (2012). Ring-tailed […]
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Dec 18
Dec 18
Madagascar’s most famous lemur facing big threats
By Herp News The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), perhaps the most well-known of Madagascar’s endemic animals, is facing a “very high” risk of extinction in the wild. The Madagascar Section of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group reassessed the Red List status of ring-tailed lemurs and upgraded the species from Near-Threatened (2008) to Endangered (2012). Ring-tailed […]
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Tortoise Capital Advisors Announces New Closed-End Fund Independent Board Member
By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors, adviser for seven closed-end funds, today announced that Rand Berney will join its closed-end fund board of directors on Jan. 1, 2014. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Turtle Beach and Parametric Sound Announce Designation of Independent Members to Be Appointed to Post-Merger Board of …
By Herp News Turtle Beach and Parametric Sound today announced that Turtle Beach has designated two independent directors to be appointed to the board of directors immediately after the closing of the pending merger … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Everything you ever wanted to know about how chameleons fight
From Scientific American, an amazing overview of how male veiled chameleons display aggression, including turning their bodies into billboards and, of course, changing colors. Check out the video below, and then read about all the latest research into how color changes look to chameleon eyes here. Photo: Russell Ligon/Scientific American …read more Read more here: […]
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'Reptiles could inherit the Earth': Unusual breathing in lizards could make them more likely to survive a global …
By Herp News Researchers at the University of Utah have found that the savannah monitor lizard breathes like a bird through a one-way loop. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Frankie Tortoise Tails – Loverboy
There is so much to say about Frankie. He has a personality as big as Siberia. He is always surprising me. Oh, sometimes those surprises are outright stinky, messy, and destructive. Still Frankie has a friendly side that says, “Hey, I love you mom”. Of course, a carrot in hand always helps. The man-ly side […]
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