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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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This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on Dec. 31, 2014 and cumulativ

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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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Camera traps are revolutionizing the world of conservation, helping researchers document elusive wildlife, record rarely-observed animal behavior, catch poachers, and identify high conservation value areas. The non-invasive tool also offers incredible marketing value, showcasing the sometimes little-seen targets of conservation efforts.

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Camera traps are revolutionizing the world of conservation, helping researchers document elusive wildlife, record rarely-observed animal behavior, catch poachers, and identify high conservation value areas. The non-invasive tool also offers incredible marketing value, showcasing the sometimes little-seen targets of conservation efforts.

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Although only a nuisance in your home, on an isolated island chain (archipelago) off the northeastern coast of Brazil, rats pose a threat to the red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). The seabird nests in the remote Abrolhos National Park, but two species of invasive rats prey on its eggs and young: the house rat (Rattus rattus) and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).

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Love wildlife? Wish you had a place online to share your photos, videos, and stories with other wild enthusiasts—kind of like a Facebook for wildlife lovers? Well, look no further than Biofaces, a new website meant to “make wildlife loving people happy,” according to its creator, Leonardo Avelino Duarte.

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Critically-endangered Kemps Ridley hatchling usually found in Gulf of Mexico receives intensive round-the-clock care after being found stranded off Barrow

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Turtle Beach Replaces Subordinated Debt With Lower Cost Financing – Quick Facts

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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR) today announced that it has entered into an amendment to its loan agreement with Bank of America  signed March 31, 2014 …

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“Corn snake!”

“Where?”

“My side about 3 feet off the road”

I slammed on the brakes and Jake, piling out of the car, ran back about 40 feet and stooped to pick up a 30″ long corn that I would never have seen. Young eyes are good! And Jake’s eyes, having the image of a snake burned time again on the retina are super in seeing off-the-road serpents.

Actually, neither Jake nor I had any particular need for a corn snake, Pantherophis guttatus guttatus. We just happened to be in Levy County hoping to hear ornate chorus frogs (a species that is becoming difficult to find). Having arrived an hour or so before dusk, and since temperatures were still fairly warm, we decided to roadhunt for a while before heading for the swamps and marshes.

So far we had seen 2 crossing garter snakes of the blue-striped variety, a cottonmouth, and now this corn snake. We always enjoy taking photos, so a few minutes were spent doing so.

The corn snakes of western Levy County are rather distinctive, very pretty, and well worth photographing. The ground color is cinnamon, the saddles are crimson and are accentuated fore, aft, and on the sides by a few black scales that are themselves preceded by a variable number of white scales.

Did we need them? No. But they are just too pretty to pass by without at least a second glance. We could only hope that the hunt for chorus frogs would be this successful.
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A turtle with an unusual breathing method faces extinction.

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Few reptiles can breathe underwater. Australia is home to one of the exceptions, the white-throated snapping turtle (Elseya albagula), which can extract oxygen from water through its backside via a process called cloacal respiration. This unusual technique, shared by a handful of other turtle and fish species, gave the turtles an evolutionary advantage for millennia, allowing them to hide from predators underwater for days at a time.

Unfortunately, breathing out of your butt requires very specific conditions that no longer exist in the turtles’ only habitat, Queensland’s Connors River and three nearby catchments. Dams, weirs, agriculture and mining have left the water sluggish and full of sediment. That makes it significantly harder for the turtles—especially vulnerable juveniles—to stay underwater. As a result, predation has increased to the point where populations have crashed. The problem has gotten so bad that less than 1 percent of eggs and young turtles survive to adulthood and the species has now been declared critically endangered by the Australian government

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“As three-time Soapbox Derby Champ Ronnie Beck says, ‘Unguarded construction sites are a gold mine.'” -Bart Simpson

While my days of pirating materials from construction sites to build skate ramps and bike jumps are way, way behind me, my urge to re-use old building materials from my own scrap pile continues to fuel many of my reptile projects.

My pile contains all sorts of fencing, screen wire, unused materials, and wood scraps from 10 years of projects around the house, and it’s always the first place I look when I have something that needs to be built.

Thus it was I found myself scanning the detritus of a hundred different tasks, looking for bits and pieces that would help me in my next reptile project: a tortoise tractor!

What is a tortoise tractor? It’s a tortoise cage or pen on wheels that can be shuffled around the yard as needed to different spots, such as areas where the grass or weeds are greenest.

The term “tractor” here comes from the use of wheels to make the unit more mobile, from the poultry world where chicken tractors are used by many home breeders to house their small flocks. Tractors like this can be as simple or as advanced as you have the need, desire, and budget. Some are tall with fancy coops or hides at one end, others not so much.
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