By Herp News A recent bust of pets and pot have one man facing nearly 30 criminal charges in New Hanover County, according to the District Attorney's Office. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Aug 19
Aug 19
Frankie Tortoise Tails – The Chance of Zombies After Midnight
I was awaken at three o’clock in the morning to what sounded like something in distress. Before getting out of bed I determined it was not a cell phone, low battery smoke detector, battery back up, or some other device as logically these items make a consistent noise. This sound was not consistent, this sound […]
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Missing 5ft lizard returns home
By Herp News A 5ft (1.5m) long pet lizard that went missing from a Swansea garden after being let out of the house for some exercise is found. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Herp Video of the Week: Cool Chameleons!
Check out this video “Cool Chameleons,” submitted by kingsnake.com user variuss11. Submit your own reptile & amphibian videos at http://www.kingsnake.com/video/ and you could see them featured here or check out all the videos submitted by other users! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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5-foot pet lizard — not dangerous — at large in Wales
By Herp News SWANSEA, Wales, Aug. 18 (UPI) — A large pet lizard made a dash for freedom when it was let out into a garden in Swansea and a police hunt for it was on, officials in Wales said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Lizard On The Loose
By Herp News A 5ft-long pet lizard has gone missing from a garden after being let out of the house for some exercise. South Wales Police said the… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Frankie Tortoise Tails – The Slide Rule
The Slide Rule Frankie does what Frankie wants in Frankie’s yard. Frankie saw a big plastic lid in his yard so Frankie decided it was a slide. Frankie’s yard, Frankie’s rules. It’s really hard to image what a sulcata tortoise playing on a slide would look like. When I shared how Frankie used a plastic […]
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Appeal to find 5ft missing lizard
By Herp News A 5ft (1.5m) long pet lizard has gone missing from a Swansea garden, after being let out of the house for some exercise. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Sea turtle nest count second highest on record
By Herp News PHOTO: A sea turtle hatchling swims to the water at Guana Tolomato Mantanzas Research Reserve, courtesy Florida DEP Posted by Miranda Grossman / CBS 12 News TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Researchers at Florida's three National Estuarine Research Reserves are reporting that this year's sea turtle nesting season is boasting the second highest nest […]
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Emaciated sea turtle found on Tybee recuperating
By Herp News An emaciated loggerhead sea turtle is recuperating at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center after washing up on the south end of Tybee Island. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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WILDLIFE: Beachgoer crushes gopher tortoise with car
By Herp News Watch out for tortoises at Barefoot Beach because these slow-moving creatures can get crushed under vehicles leaving the parking lot. Joanna Fitzgerald, director of the von Arx Wildlife Hospital, shares her tips. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Reptile show BREEDS EXCITEMENT at Ocean Center
By Herp News More than 100 reptile breeders and vendors have set up booths. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Men charged over reptile park raid
By Herp News But most of the stolen creatures, including snakes and a baby alligator, have not been found. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Lizard Lick Towing visits Keystone Outdoor Expo
By Herp News York, PA – Lizard Lick Towing created a sensation Friday at the York Expo Center. Dozens of people stood in line waiting to meet Ron and Amy Shirley, two of the stars of the reality-TV show that runs weekly on cable's TruTV network and features the exploits of Ron Shirley and his […]
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Lost lizard reunited with owner
By Herp News The 5-foot-long lizard picked up along the frontage road of IH-35 on Wednesday was reunited with his owner Friday morning. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Skinks recovered after NSW reptile theft
By Herp News A pair of lizards stolen from a NSW Central Coast reptile park last month have been reunited with their keepers. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Female frogs prefer males who can multitask
By Herp News In a study of gray tree frogs, researchers discovered that females prefer males whose calls reflect the ability to multitask effectively. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Queensland government issues order to stop killing 'rescued' reptiles
In the United States, most large scale “rescue” of reptiles means they’re seized from a bad or illegal situation and then killed. That’s been the case in Queensland, Australia, too — but no more. Andrew Powell, Minister for the Environment and Heritage Protection of Queensland, overturned that policy, directing agencies that take in seized reptiles […]
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Turtle lured from under Englewood cottage
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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Man jailed for stealing tortoise
By Herp News A man is jailed for nine months for stealing a tortoise and a homeless man's mobile phone. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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NEW: Turtle coaxed from Englewood cottage
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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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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GALLERY: Devilishly cute babies
By Herp News Aug. 15, 2013, 7:25 a.m. Australian Reptile Park keeper Nick Wilson with three baby Tasmanian devils, born at the Devil Ark four months ago. Photo: MAX MASON-HUBERS Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Five Aceh elephants die in just six weeks
By Herp News Police in Indonesia’s Aceh province are investigating the killings of three critically endangered Sumatran elephants, as conflicts with humans led to a series of elephant deaths across the province last month. Five elephants have died in Aceh since late June, including two orphaned calves, highlighting the need to mitigate conflicts between elephants […]
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China’s growing wine industry threatening pandas and other endangered species
By Herp News In 1985, Li Hua visited a valley in the foothills of the Tibetan plateau. The area was better known for its panda population, but the oenologist realized that its high altitude, hours of sunshine, sandy soil and low precipitation also offered ideal conditions for growing grapes. Go to Source …read more Read […]
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Reptile expo, history pub, movies: Wilsonville events
By Herp News My list includes a reptile expo at the Holiday Inn, movies at the library and in Memorial Park, a history program at McMenamins, and activities for the 55-and-older crowd at the community center. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Turtles love golf; here's why
It turns out well-managed golf courses are better turtle habitat than some farms and parks. At least, that’s the word from National Geographic, not normally prone to pro-golf hysteria. (If golf can be said to inspire anything like hysteria even among its devotees.) In “Turtles Flourishing in Golf Course Ponds,” NatGeo reports on two studies […]
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Scientists map plan to save lemurs
By Herp News Primatologists and researchers have devised a wide-ranging plan to protect Madagascar’s most endangered lemurs from extinction. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Mystery lizard in Brooklyn
By Herp News A photo taken by a Brooklyn resident shows a roughly three-foot lizard in the backyard. It may be a monitor lizard, but animal experts have not been able to see it in the flesh to identify it. It showed up in the backyard of a townhouse on Osborne Street. Go to Source […]
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Rhino slaughtered for its horn in city park
By Herp News In another sign that the rhino poaching crisis has gone out-of-control, Kenyan officials announced late last night that a pregnant rhino was poached in Nairobi National Park, which sits on the edge of Kenya’s capital. Home to lions, leopard, giraffes and hippos in addition to rhinos, the park is known for its […]
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Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinction rates
By Herp News The world’s species are in worse trouble than widely-assumed, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which reevaluates how scientists estimate extinction rates. The new model takes into account the impact of forest fragmentation on extinction rates for the first time, filling in a […]
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Premier Business Centers to Open at Two Turtle Creek in the Highland Park / Uptown / Turtle Creek Area
By Herp News Irvine, California based Premier Business Centers , the largest privately owned executive suite and alternative workspace operation, has entered into a Lease Agreement with the TC PROPCO II, LP to operate an executive suite in the Two Turtle Creek Village. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]
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Every herper's favorite cop
A Florida police officer saw some baby sea turtles in trouble, and decided to give them a hand. From Yahoo News: Sarasota Officer Derek Conley was on patrol at 1 a.m. Saturday when he saw sea turtle hatchlings crawling toward the front door of the Lido Beach Resort. A passerby also told Conley that several […]
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Reptile exhibit called important education
By Herp News A regular attraction at Charlottetown's Old Home Week is the source of extra discussion this year following a tragedy that saw two boys killed by an African rock python in New Brunswick. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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