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Three doctoral students did a cross-country road trip survey of roadside ecology, and now report on a rare plant that thrives in the aftermath of wildfires, pine snakes and the impact of roads on their habitat and newborn pine snakes’ map-making ability.
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Shark fin demand has dropped precipitously in China in just a few years, according to a new report by WildAid. Shark fin traders in Guangzhou—the current informal capital of the shark fin trade—say their sales have fallen by 82 percent in just two years, according to WildAid.
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Marking World Elephant Day, a designation intended to raise awareness about the plight of elephants that are being widely poached for the ivory trade, primatologist Jane Goodall urged people to have greater compassion for Earth’s largest land animals.
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Advocates hope the the discovery of world’s 10,000th reptile species leads to greater protections for endangered herps.
From Mongabay News:
The new milestone is important because it means reptiles are as diverse as birds, which are generally considered to include around 10,000 species. Uetz predicts that reptiles will soon surpass birds given the rate of recent discoveries, making it the second-largest vertebrate group after fish which contains over 32,000 species.
Globally, there are around 5,500 mammal species and 6,400 amphibians currently.
But despite being among the most diverse vertebrate groups, reptiles are largely unrepresented by the IUCN Red List, which determines whether or not a species is endangered. Approximately all mammals and birds have been evaluated by the IUCN, and over 90 percent of amphibians have been evaluated. In contrast, only 43 percent of reptiles have been evaluated (the number is even worse for fish sitting at 35 percent).
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Highlights & Developments Second quarter net …
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It's like Robert DeNiro said in Goodfellas: “Never rat on your lizard friends, and always keep your mouth shut or your lizard friend will straight up murder you — lizards are f*cking…
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For thousands of years turtles have been used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments and diseases. Originally published in the journal Radiata and recently republished HerpDigest David S. Lee and Liao Shi Kun write, “[In Chinese culture] turtles are symbolic of long life, personal wealth, fertility, strength, and happy households.”
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Tortoise Capital Advisors will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday and ring the NYSE Closing Bell to celebrate a decade of listing master limited partnership-focused funds on the NYSE, and more specifically the 10th anniversary of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp.
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Tortoise Capital Advisors will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday and ring the NYSE Closing Bell to celebrate a decade of listing master limited partnership-focused funds on the NYSE, and more specifically the 10th anniversary of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp.
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Officials are reminding people, to be mindful of the nests and the hatchlings while they are spending time on the beach.
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A generation ago, Borneo was one of the wildest places on the planet. But decades of logging and oil palm plantations has changed the landscape of Borneo forever: in fact a recent study found that the island has lost 30 percent of its total forest cover since 1973. In the face of this large-scale environmental destruction, a new study finds that Indonesian Borneo’s children have a pessimistic view of their future.
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It’s not Godzilla threatening the Japanese ecosystem, but invasive snapping turtles.
From BBC News:
Snapping turtles originally come from the Americas, but turned up in Japan as pets in the 1960s, Kyodo news agency reports. Some turtles must have escaped to the wild, as there were an estimated 1,000 turtles roaming the Chiba Prefecture 10 years ago. The turtles have been classed in Japan as an invasive species and are eating up fish, bird and weed stocks, and chewing their way through fishermen’s nets.
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THE founder of a reptile rescue charity has urged people to be certain of their commitment before adopting an exotic animal as a pet.
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Two look-alike frogs were shown by researchers to be separate species through genetic analysis. Recently, a Malaysian herpetologist puzzled over an unfamiliar orange-striped, yellow-speckled frog she’d live-caught in swampland on the Malay Peninsula. She showed the frog to a fellow herpetologist pursuing his doctorate in the United States. They wondered — was this striking frog with an appearance unlike others nearby in the central peninsula an unidentified species?
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Ninja Turtles fans old and young showed up at the movies this weekend, driving Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to one of the biggest August openings ever.Meanwhile, Guardians of the Galaxy scored the highest second weekend of the Summer so far.The Top 12 earned an estimated $173.6 million this weekend, which is up 22 percent from the same frame last year. This August remains on track to be the …
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THE founder of a reptile rescue charity has urged people to be certain of their commitment before adopting an exotic animal as a pet.
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THE founder of a reptile rescue charity has urged people to be certain of their commitment before adopting an exotic animal as a pet.
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Sherrie Dolezal, 62, returned to her home in Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday to find her beloved pet Del Sol, a bearded dragon, floating face up and unconscious in his pool.
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News-Journal/NIGEL COOK Mike Daley digs for sea turtle eggs along Canaveral National Seashore in search of new turtle nests, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Published: Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 5:30 a.m.
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News-Journal/NIGEL COOK Mike Daley digs for sea turtle eggs along Canaveral National Seashore in search of new turtle nests, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Published: Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 10:02 p.m.
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The closed-end funds managed by Tortoise Capital Advisors declared the following distributions today:
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The three-foot reptile – thought to be a chocolate banana king snake – was slithering across the machine outside the One Stop shop in Gillingham, Dorset.
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Check out this video “Garter Snake Catching Fish,” submitted by kingsnake.com user PH FasDog.
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As Michael Bay’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adaptation gets set to hit theaters – only seven years after the last such film – audiences are left gawking at the rather monstrous new forms for the team. Her name was Venus de Milo.
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A 150-pound tortoise got its 15 minutes of fame over the weekend.
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A search is underway Monday for the owner of a 60-pound African tortoise found wandering the streets of Santee on Sunday.
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No club pushes global mashups more than the Lizard Lounge . Moroccan folk, UK breakbeats, jazz fusion, Middle Eastern melodies and rock ‘n’ roll all have a home at the Lizard (OK, fine, they all have a home in one Lizard residency: Friday’s with Club d’Elf ).
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Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rapheal or Donatello: Which turtle is the biggest hottie in a half shell?
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The only way to save the long-suffering elephants of Africa is to close every ivory market on the planet and destroy all ivory stockpiles, according to a bold new essay in Conservation Biology. Written by Elizabeth Bennett, the Vice President for Species Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society, the paper is likely to prove controversial.
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After crashing her car into a firehouse, a woman was found wearing an unusual accessory: a ball python.
From ABC News:
Fire personnel at the scene rushed to aid Espinosa when they “discovered a small ball python snake wrapped around the defendant’s neck,” which they promptly removed and secured, according to the police report.
“Third Precinct officers responded and determined Espinosa had stolen the snake from [a Garden City] PETCO,” according to the report, which also stated that Espinosa was in possession of marijuana at the time of the accident. The snake is sold at Petco for $89, a store employee said.
Espinosa was treated and released from a hospital, and the snake was returned to its home at the store, police said.
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Juvenile loggerhead turtles swim into oncoming ocean currents, instead of passively drifting with them. After loggerhead turtle hatchlings leave nesting beaches, they live in the ocean for 7-12 years before migrating to coastal habitats.
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Tortoises have learned how to use touchscreens as part of a study which aimed to teach the animals navigational techniques. The brain structure of reptiles is very different to that of mammals, which use the hippocampus for spatial navigation.
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Bumphead parrotfish are noisy feeders. They break off large branches of corals using their powerful beaks, grind them up in their bodies to extract nutrients, and expel the undigested material in large cloudy plumes of feces. Their voracious feeding is, however, not just a loud, messy affair. During the course of their feeding, they also change the coral reef ecosystem in numerous ways.
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A California tortoise had a brush with law enforcement after police picked him up near a city intersection.
From Yahoo! News:
The roaming reptile, named Clark, was reunited with its human family on Sunday after it was spotted near the intersection of Sixth Street and Norwood Place, in the southeastern part of the city, at around 1 p.m. Saturday and retrieved by police.
Someone cornered Clark until officers arrived, Alhambra Police Department Sgt. Esther Rodriguez told ABC News in a Sunday interview.
“Since he was kind of heavy, two officers picked him up, put him in our trunk and transported him to our station,” where he was placed in a kennel until Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control arrived shortly afterward, Rodriguez said.
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A giant tortoise has been returned to its owners after a brief police pursuit through suburban LA. It took two officers to heft the giant tortoise into a patrol car so they could turn it over to animal control authorities.
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MACKAY and District Turtle Watch Association is one of 69 finalists in the running for the People’s Choice Awards as part of the 2014 National Landcare Awards.
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David Yow is not the first guy you’d expect to be emotionally invested in cats. As a live performer, the former Jesus Lizard antagonist has a well-founded reputation for crassly unsettling onstage antics, including wrapping his genitals around microphones (a move he nicknamed the “Tight & Shiny”), puking and then cleaning up the mess with his shirt, and bidding “Happy 9/11 day, everybody!”
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After nearly a year and a half more than a dozen meetings — some lasting as long as three hours each — on July 28 the village of Liverpool Planning Board unanimously approved plans to build a 38-seat back deck at the Limp Lizard Barbecue, 201 First St. and a 48-space parking lot behind that property to be shared by the White Water Pub, 110 S. Willow St.
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If you have trouble keeping your garden free of slugs and mice, consider these tips to turn it into a snake sanctuary.
From the David Suzuki Foundation:
Tip 1: Avoid pesticides
Slug bait is harmful to snakes, other wildlife, children and pets!
Tip 2: Imitate nature
Avoid monocultures of plants that are planted in straight lines.
Tip 3: Use stones
Move objects like stones and slate carefully. They may be providing cover for your snake friends.
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The foreign turtle species is breeding fast, eating up fish and birds – and has a ferocious bite.
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