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Archive for October 19th, 2015


   Oct 19

The maleo: a success story for Indonesia’s strange pit-digging bird

By Herp News [dropcap]C[/dropcap]onservation success stories are rare. Too often we read of the losing battles: local extinctions and irreversible biodiversity losses, often at the expense of shortsighted exploitation-for-profit schemes. Refreshingly, the plight of the maleo is different. This story is one of conservation success. Maleos are, by all accounts, weird birds. They are chicken-like […]

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   Oct 19

Herp Photo of the Day: Nile Monitor

What better way to start out this week than with this cute Nile Monitor in our herp photo of the day uploaded by kingsnake.com user Mantafish every once in a while! Be sure to tell them you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them […]

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