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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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Woman brings pet lizard back to life after administering CPR
Volunteers, workers help protect sea turtle nests
By Herp News
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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Volunteers, workers help protect sea turtle nests
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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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Tortoise Capital Advisors Announces Distribution Dates and Amounts for Closed-End Funds
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The closed-end funds managed by Tortoise Capital Advisors declared the following distributions today:
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Snakes alive! Exotic reptile encounter at Dorset cashpoint shocks bank customer
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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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Herp Video of the Week: Garter Snake Catching Fish!
Check out this video “Garter Snake Catching Fish,” submitted by kingsnake.com user PH FasDog.
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What About the Female Turtle? Remembering Venus de Milo, TMNT’s Lost Member
By Herp News
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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Wandering Tortoise No Match for Cops
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A 150-pound tortoise got its 15 minutes of fame over the weekend.
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Tortoise found wandering streets of Santee
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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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Last Best Show: Kina Zore and Portland Rhumba Project at the Lizard
By Herp News
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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Who’s the hottest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?
By Herp News
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rapheal or Donatello: Which turtle is the biggest hottie in a half shell?
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Want to save Africa’s elephants? Close all ivory markets
By Herp News
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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Stolen python a passenger in car crash
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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Young loggerhead turtles not going with the flow
By Herp News
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 master touchscreen technology
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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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Elephants under the sea: awkward-looking fish modify the coral-reef ecosystem in mixed ways
By Herp News
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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Tortoise has a run-in with the law
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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Police pursue giant tortoise through suburban LA
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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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Turtle Watch Association a National Landcare Award finalist
By Herp News
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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Q&A: David Yow on Cats
By Herp News
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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Limp Lizard to expand
By Herp News
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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Turn your garden into a snake sanctuary
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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Japan tackles Snapping Turtle menace
By Herp News
The foreign turtle species is breeding fast, eating up fish and birds – and has a ferocious bite.
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The North East Reptile Show set to bring a host of exotic animals to the region
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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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Reptile Database Has Exceeded 10,000 Reptile Species
By Herp News
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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Police catch giant tortoise after short chase
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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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Sticky Lizard grand opening
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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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Reptile Database surpasses 10,000 reptile species
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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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Scientists catalog the world’s 10,000th reptile
By Herp News
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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The North East Reptile Show set to bring a host of exotic animals to the region
By Herp News
ALL manner of scaly and spiky creatures will be on show when the North-East Reptile Show returns this weekend.
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Where have all the big animals gone? Indian park devoid of many species, further threatened by forest loss
By Herp News
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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How amphibians crossed continents: DNA helps piece together 300-million-year journey
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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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Turtle-nesting season draws to close
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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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Sea turtle gets a clean and scrub from electric yellow fish
By Herp News
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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Python gets a check-up
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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Third turtle slaughtered
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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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150-pound tortoise goes on an adventure in Alhambra
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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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Major turtle nesting beaches protected in one of the UK’s far flung overseas territories
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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 are underestimating the impacts of rainforest logging
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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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Reptile Database surpasses 10,000 reptile species
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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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