The London Zoo has become the first zoo in the world to successfully breed an incredibly rare Lake Oku clawed frog. From the Irish Examiner: The Lake Oku clawed frog is native to only Lake Oku in Cameroon and, due to their unique history of evolution (including the loss of their tongues), the aquatic frogs […]
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May 19
May 19
Endangered, tongueless frog bred in capitivity for first time
The London Zoo has become the first zoo in the world to successfully breed an incredibly rare Lake Oku clawed frog. From the Irish Examiner: The Lake Oku clawed frog is native to only Lake Oku in Cameroon and, due to their unique history of evolution (including the loss of their tongues), the aquatic frogs […]
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Desperately seeking smooth green snakes
In many areas where once common, the smooth green snake, Opheodrys vernalis, seem to have become hard to find. In various areas where I have searched – Michigan, Massachusetts, Virginia, West Virginia, South Dakota, and New Mexico among them – in locales where the taxon was known to have once been fairly common, I have […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Okeetee corn snake
This yearling Okeetee corn snake is just hanging out doing snake things, like climbing a tree, in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user cochran! Be sure to tell cochran you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read […]
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Luxury hotel chain linked to destruction of rainforests
By Herp News The Mandarin Oriental hotel chain has landed in environmentalists’ crosshairs for the practices of its sister company Astra Agro Lestari, a rapidly expanding palm oil producer with fully developed plantations on an area larger than Singapore. The new She’s Not a Fan campaign – a play off Mandarin’s celebrity-fan endorsement drive – […]
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