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TURTLE BAY, Manhattan (PIX11) — The founder of a New York City hedge fund was fatally shot in the head in his Turtle Bay apartment Sunday afternoon. Police responded to a 911 call at 20 Beekman Place between 50th and 51st Streets around 3:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they found 70-year-old Thomas Gilbert in his […]
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Snakes may not have shoulders, but their bodies aren’t as simple as commonly thought, according to a new study that could change how scientists think snakes evolved. Rather than snakes evolving from a lizard ancestor to a more simplified body form, researchers say their findings suggest other animals gained more complex vertebral columns as they evolved.
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If you’re a snake lover in India and you wish to do something for the welfare of these reptilian friends, one of the best ways to do so is to become a snake rescuer.
However, should you undertake this difficult ordeal, realize it’s not what you do but why you do it that counts. It’s a journey, like the one that married couples take, to understand and empathize with these wonderful creatures.
Indian culture and snakes are made for each other. There are certain popular myths that have existed for over thousands of years that have caused a great deal of destruction of snake habitats. Some common mis-beliefs include that snakes drink milk and snakes are vengeful by nature. Having said that, I would like to add these myths are also among the reasons snakes have been protected to certain extent. For example, snakes are worshiped to prevent their malevolent behavior or responses.
Until recently, snake rescue culture grew slowly in India. Today, one can find snake rescuers in every part of India. However, you will rarely come across a full-time snake rescuer as there is little scope for herpetology and for most population it’s inaccessible.
One would discover, like I did, that most snake rescuers are hobbyists or affiliated with non-governmental organizations. This calls for a great deal of effort to gain the required knowledge and skill to handle snakes properly. For examples, you’ll only find snake shelters in urban areas. Usually,most snake rescuers free the snake back to nature in forested areas.
Mostly, snake calls in India are distress calls. For example, recently one of my friends called me up on a holiday. He was panicking after he found a snake at his place. Over the years, it’s become almost predictable as to which snakes are found in certain areas in different seasons. However, they never seem to stop surprising me.
Snake rescuing culture in India is still developing. Although it has gained some momentum, it still has a long way to go.
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This fall, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added two little-known prairie butterflies to the Endangered Species Act. One of the species, the Poweshiek skipperling, may be down to only a few hundred individuals. The Dakota skipperling is faring a little better, but both have lost the majority of their habitat in the pass few hundred years and continue to decline.
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A Queensland reptile park owner is recovering in hospital after a crocodile bit off his thumb in front of horrified families during a daily feeding show.
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Stuck in the middle of a drought that may last years, endangered turtles in California were given a roof-top reprieve.
From CBS:
With so much of the fresh water lost to evaporation, what’s left is highly concentrated with minerals and very salty. And that has left the turtles in bad shape.
The USGS researchers called Shaffer when they noticed that not only were the turtles lethargic, but some of their heads, feet and shells were coated in a thick white crust of mineral deposits.
“Some of them looked like ceramic turtles,” Shaffer said. “Between the biologists who were out there and me, we have a hundred years of turtle experience and we had never seen turtles look like this.”
So they mobilized, collecting 60 turtles from the arid lakebed and transporting half to the Turtle Conservancy’s captive breeding facility in Ojai, and the other half to UCLA, where Shaffer and his team set up a reptile refugee camp on the roof of the botany building.
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A Queensland reptile park owner who was mauled by a crocodile in front of zoo visitors has been flown to a Brisbane hospital for plastic surgery.
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Last month, on the 66th anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2014 ended very much the same way it began at …
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A Queensland reptile park owner who was mauled by a crocodile in front of zoo visitors has been flown to a Brisbane hospital for plastic surgery.
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Now that cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs has outed members the group that took out the PlayStation and Xbox Live networks over Christmas, the hackers are coming after him. “Lizard Squad” has …
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Now that cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs has outed members of Lizard Squad, the Internet trolls are after him.
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A MAN has been attacked by a crocodile at a Queensland reptile park.
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The Oregon Coast Aquarium says a sea turtle that was near death after washing up on the coast last week is getting better.
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Frogs exhibit an amazing variety of reproductive behaviors, ranging from brooding their eggs in their mouths to carrying tadpoles on their backs. Fewer than a dozen species of 6,000+ worldwide have developed internal fertilization, and some of these give birth to froglets instead of eggs. One species that has internal fertilization, a fanged frog from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, has been observed to give direct birth to tadpoles, which is unique among amphibians.
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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $384.9 million and its unaudit
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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.2 billion and its unaudited net asset value
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $251.3 million and
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $4.2 billion and its unaudited net
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $430.0 million and its unaudi
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A sea turtle found hypothermic and dehydrated on a beach in southwest Washington is showing signs of improvement after a week of rehabilitation at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
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By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) – One in four children younger than age five who were infected with Salmonella got the disease from a pet reptile in a recent UK study. The children with reptile-associated infections were significantly younger than other kids with Salmonella infections, more likely to be hospitalized and more likely to have invasive infections that affected the blood or …
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Now that cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs has outed members of Lizard Squad, the Internet trolls are after him.
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Now that cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs has outed members of Lizard Squad, the Internet trolls are after him.
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Now that cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs has outed members the group that took out the PlayStation and Xbox Live networks over Christmas, the hackers are coming after him.
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One of the guys allegedly responsible for keeping you from playing video games on Christmas Day 2014 has been arrested.
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A 65-pound sea turtle is recovering at the New England Aquarium's turtle hospital.
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A sea turtle found hypothermic and dehydrated on a beach in southwest Washington is showing signs of improvement after a week of rehabilitation at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
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Primates don’t monkey around when deciding where to spend the night, but primatologists have had a poor grasp on what drives certain monkeys toward specific trees. Now, two extensive studies of Indonesian primates suggest that factors in selecting trees each evening are site-specific and different for each species—and that some overnight spots result in conflicts between monkeys and humans.
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ETNA – Lovers of lizards need not travel far to get a new pet in Siskiyou County, thanks to Jesse and Christian Thomson’s lifelong passion for reptiles.Celebrating one year in operation, Jesse Thomson spoke to the Siskiyou Daily News recently about the niche business that provides for the full spectrum of reptile ownership, from tanks to the reptiles themselves.The Thomsons’ Dooya […]
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The hacking group that claims it took down the Xbox and PlayStation networks on Christmas can now help you take down any website for the low, low price of $2.99.
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Meanwhile, the Lizard Squad said it also played a role in the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack.
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An oil spill in the world’s largest mangrove forest has killed many animals, and will have an impact for years to come.
From the Daily Star:
Animals have started to die. The water hyacinths on the two rivers have turned black. Some Golpata trees have gone under heavy layers of oil.
One local, Abu Jafar, spotted two animals — a monitor lizard and an otter — dead and smeared with oil along the banks of the Shela.
Meanwhile, the authorities pulled the sunken oil tanker ashore around 11:00am yesterday, some 30 hours after the accident. But all the 3.58 lakh litres of furnace oil the tanker had been carrying already spilled into the rivers and the adjacent cannels.
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