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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.

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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.

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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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ALL manner of scaly and spiky creatures will be on show when the North-East Reptile Show returns this weekend.

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By Sathya Achia Abraham and Eric Peters, Virginia Commonwealth University More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database , a web-based catalogue of all living reptile species and classification, making the reptile species among the most diverse vertebrate groups in the world, alongside bird and fish species. For some time, experts have projected that 2014 would …

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When 150-pound reptile found on street near Los Angeles, officers joke about chasing the slow animal

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Mayor Robert Eschbach and the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors paid a call to The Sticky Lizard ice cream and yogurt shop for its grand opening ribbon-cutting July 25. The self-serve shop also offers Italian ice, gelato and slushies as well as a topping bar with 40 dessert toppings.

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More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database, a web-based catalogue of all living reptile species and classification, making the reptile species among the most diverse vertebrate groups in the world, alongside bird and fish species.

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As of this year, scientists have named and described over 10,000 reptiles, marking a new milestone in cataloging one of the most diverse vertebrate groups. Last week, the Reptile Database, an online catalog of all the world’s living reptiles, announced it had passed 10,000 species.

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ALL manner of scaly and spiky creatures will be on show when the North-East Reptile Show returns this weekend.

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Namdapha National Park is part of the Indo-Myanmar biodiversity hotspot. However, locating many species in the park is becoming increasingly difficult, the region has lost thousands of hectares of forest in the past decade, and studies project the situation may simply worsen in the coming years.

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A professor has succeeded in constructing a first-of-its-kind comprehensive diagram of the geographic distribution of amphibians, showing the movement of 3,309 species between 12 global ecoregions. Armed with DNA sequence data, he sought to accurately piece together the 300-million-year storyline of their journey.

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This sea turtle hatchling emerged July 29 during an excavation of the first nest laid this season on the beach at Emerald Isle.

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A photographer in Hawaii has captured the stunning moment dozens of tiny fish operating an underwater 'car wash' latch onto a sea turtle to give it a clean.

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How do you examine a snake’s heart? With lots of help.

From BBC News:

Reticulated pythons are the longest snake species in the world.

So it took a team of eight handlers to hold the snake in order that it could be examined.

The huge reptile, named JF, is thought to be one of the biggest snakes in Europe – at 7m (23 feet) long, and weighing approximately 60kgs.

As well as ensuring the snake is healthy, the check-up was part of a cardiological research study.

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WHO IS butchering turtles and leaving them on the beach? This is the question being asked by upset turtle conservationists as they discovered another turtle dead, the third in two weeks, at King’s Beach, Road View, St Peter, yesterday. Barbados Sea Turtle Project volunteers Caitlin Lanphear and Meghan Bend made the discovery after they received calls, to the turtle hotline, of a dead turtle …

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A 150-pound tortoise found wandering in Alhambra this weekend has been reunited with its family, officials announced Sunday.

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Sea turtles are not a species one would normally associate with the United Kingdom. But on the remote UK overseas territory of Ascension Island, one of the world’s largest green turtle populations is undergoing something of a renaissance.

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Ecologists may be underestimating the impact of logging in old-growth tropical forests by failing to account for subtleties in how different animal groups respond to the intensity of timber extraction, argues a paper published today in the journal Current Biology. The study, led by Zuzana Burivalova of ETH Zurich, is based on a meta-analysis of 48 studies that evaluated the impact of selective logging on mammals, birds, amphibians, and invertebrates in tropical forests.

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( Virginia Commonwealth University ) More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database, a web-based catalog of all living reptile species and classification, making the reptile species among the most diverse vertebrate groups in the world, alongside bird and fish species.

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CONCRETE — The air might have been getting a little too hot for humans, but for cold-blooded reptiles, the rising temperatures were just right.

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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $473.0 million and its unaud

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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 billion and its unaudited net asset value

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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $4.3 billion and its unaudited ne

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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $496.2 million and its unaudit

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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $254.0 million and

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Once, not very far away, there was a land of modest fame where a young boy name Prince resided with his Queen Mom and his King Dad. Prince was a special boy who lived in a spectrum call Autism. The people didn’t know what this meant, nor could they understand his frequent seizures so they just said the Prince was sick and left him alone.

Prince kept to himself and never spoke to anyone. He didn’t understand that he was different he just knew his head was full up inside and he had thoughts no one understood. His seizures struck like sudden thunderstorms and his mind became chaos and darkness.

One day, a magic tortoise named Bob was walking by and saw Prince sitting very quiet in his garden. Bob walked right up to Prince and they became instant friends. Bob decided he must stay and live in the garden that belonged to Prince and his family.

The once silent Prince began speaking to Bob and Bob seemed to understand. Even though no one else could hear Bob speak, Prince would listen to Bob and understood everything Bob said. Prince knew this was because Bob was a magical tortoise.

Everyday Prince would bring flowers and clovers for Bob to eat and he would tell Bob about his day at school. Prince told Bob about the things he thought and he would tell Bob when was feeling bad. Prince told Bob the thoughts in his head got so jumbled up that it sounded like buffalo stampedes, and his seizures stormed through his head like lightning.

Bob told Prince a great secret: when you can breathe like all the winds of the world like I do, your thoughts will fall away like feathers and the thunderstorms loose their thunder. Bob taught Prince to breath in deep like the ocean, to blow slowly like a breeze, to puff strong like a tornado, to breathe warm like the desert, and even blow funny like a raspberry. Prince began to get better, he could sleep through the night, and fewer thunderstorms happened in his head.

King Dad and Queen Mom saw that their son was happier than he had ever been before and the reason they believed was Bob. Everyone could see that Bob was helping Prince. It wasn’t long before everyone believed that Bob was a magical tortoise.

Word about Bob the magic tortoise spread far and wide. A boy who lived outside the realm wanted to know what kind of magic a tortoise could have. One day he stole Bob from Prince’s garden.

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