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KOTA KINABALU : A report on the ‘turtle killing fields’ at Pulau Tiga (near Pulau Balambangan-Pulau Banggi Channel, north of Kudat) will be presented to the State Cabinet.
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In what is being hailed as an environmental victory for the U.S. Navy, the island night lizard has been taken off the list of federally endangered species.
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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of March 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $465.0 million and its unaudi
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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of March 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited net asset valu
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of March 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $422.8 million and its unau
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of March 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $238.4 million an
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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of March 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $295.7 million and its unaudited
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of March 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.4 billion and its unaudited n
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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of March 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.2 billion and its unaudited net asse
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This year the Hanta virus has already caused 15 deaths in Chile, according to reports in The Santiago Times. It isn’t always fatal—the 15 deaths were of a total of 36 cases over six months—but the symptoms are severe. Those affected experience flu-like symptoms, as well as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and trouble breathing. But now Chile is using a novel method to fight the disease: owls.
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Just over two weeks ago, conservationists in the Malaysian state of Sabah managed to finally catch a wild Sumatran rhino female after months of failed attempts. But following such hopeful events, comes bad news thousands of miles away: a young female rhino, named Suci, died over the weekend at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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A Michigan firefighter went into a burning building to save a pet 6-foot python trapped in his terrarium.
From WXYZ:
Muskegon firefighter Scott Hemmelsbach told The Muskegon Chronicle that he reluctantly agreed to enter the two-story, smoke-filled house Sunday night to retrieve the snake. He says he cradled the “weighty” snake before carrying it to safety.
“It was trying to crawl up the side of his terrarium and get out,” Hemmelsbach said. “His face was pushed up on the screen and trying to get out. There was a lot of smoke and he was trapped.”
The firefighter said he learned how to handle snakes while he was at Grand Haven High School, where he helped showcase them.
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Wildlife officials say a tiny lizard found only on Southern California's Channel Islands has been removed from the federal list of threatened species after 37 years.
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This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on March 31, 2014 and cumulati
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You may love them, but your reptiles aren’t welcome at 49ers football games. Read more…
Herpetologist Natalia Rossi talks about crocodiles in southeastern Cuba as part of a celebration of the contributions of women to the practice of conservation. Read more…
The New York Times takes a look at rattlesnake “round-ups” and gassing… probably more favorably than most herpers would. Read more…
Biscuits, a very important loggerhead, is back where she belongs. Watch the video below:
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Vietnam saved 431,000 kWh of electricity during last weekend's Earth Hour campaign, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. For one hour from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on March 29, Vietnamese from cities and provinces across the country joined the rest of the world in switching off non-essential lights as a symbol for their commitment to the planet….
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Posted March 30, 2014, at 5:27 p.m. Kate Anderson of Concord, New Hampshire, laughs as Bruce, a ball python, slithers around her ball cap at the start of the Northeast Reptile Expo on Sunday at the Cross Insurance Center. Kate and her husband, Josh, own WTF Reptiles in New Hampshire.
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Kenneth Cornelius Coleman of Riviera Beach, who is 52 years old, has pleaded guilty to egg poaching after sea turtle nests were found to be disturbed in Juno Beach.
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A turtle which only lives in freshwater in America has been discovered on a beach in Hampshire.
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The home to a number of slithering serpents and all kinds of creepy crawlies currently holds the world record for the most reptile species under one roof.
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Frankie has a new best friend. I am not the new best friend because I moved him to Mobile. Up to this point Frankie is not happy about being in Mobile. It is going to get better. Yesterday it got a bit better. I’m back in Frankie’s Top Five Friend List as I did introduce him to his new best friend.
The day before he got to meet our down-hill next door neighbor. I know our uphill neighbor pretty well and see her a lot. The lower-on-the-hill neighbor works a lot of hours so five months later I still hadn’t met her.
Frankie and I were walking to a house two doors down the street where Frankie has permission to graze. It’s difficult getting to that house because Frankie has to walk past our down-hill next door neighbor’s spectacularly beautiful lawn loaded with tall, bright green, fresh, winter rye grass.
Frankie wants that grass so much that every time we walk past the green garden of delight house I have a 30 foot scrimmage to keep him out of his desired yard. I have a very strict rule that Frankie does not graze a yard without permission.
This means that since October of last year Frankie has been disallowed access to the sea of green he so longingly wishes to graze.
Until yesterday.
The day before we were our way back home, I was struggling to keep Frankie on the sidewalk and out of our down-hill neighbor’s grass when our neighbor pulls up into her drive way. I was a bit embarrassed that she witnessed his nibbling on the very edges of her lawn and me desperately trying to drag him back into our pitiful grass-lacking yard.
She waved at us as she got out of her car with purse, jacket and bag in hand and walked over to say hello.
“So, this is the Frankie I’ve heard all about. Wow, he is so BIG.”
Commence the Frankie questions: how much does he weigh, what species is he, where does he sleep, how long have you had him, were did you get him, what does he eat, and so on.
After the question and answer session (all the while struggling to keep Frankie away from her yard) I apologize to her mentioning that Frankie tries to be be respectful and I work to keep him off her beautiful lawn but he has nibbled some off the sides.
To this she exclaims that most certainly Frankie can graze on her grass, she doesn’t mind at all. Graze away! Less to mow on the weekends.
The invitation sounds too good to be true so I double check and ask if she is sure he can graze on her lawn. We get the please, do let Frankie graze!
So the next day, yesterday, I walked the hungry Frankie directly to the green yard of bountiful grass.
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Lifestyle retailer PlanetShoes.com expands their ever-growing line of outdoor footwear to include Lizard shoes. (PRWeb March 29, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11684624.htm
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Check out our Herp Video of the Week, submitted by kingsnake.com user boa2cobras.
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Remember the Aesop Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare? It is one of my favorites. Based upon my research, I think that it needs to be retold over and over again. It should be especially relevant for supply chain leaders. Why? I have been studying corporate balance sheet data for the […]
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Did you ever find anything cool when you were a kid? How about discovering an entirely new species in a swimming pool?
From National Geographic:
The 1.5-inch-long (4-centimeter-long) frog “is rather strange-looking—it’s quite fat with short legs and bright orange spots on its sides,” said Luis German Naranjo, WWF Colombia‘s conservation director.
Naranjo and a team of scientists were surveying wildlife in eastern Colombia’s Orinoco savanna, including animals found on a small farm.
Expecting to find little more than livestock, the team was surprised when the farmer’s seven-year-old son, whose name was given only as Camilito, called the group over to a pool. There, in the water, was the small spotted frog.
The team’s herpetologist, Daniel Cuentas, had never seen anything like it, and immediately set out looking for other examples.
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In 1864, Walter Campbell was an officer in the British Army, stationed in India when he penned these words in his journal: “Never attack a tiger on foot—if you can help it. There are cases in which you must do so. Then face him like a Briton, and kill him if you can; for if you fail to kill him, he will certainly kill you.” In a stroke of good fortune for the tiger, perceptions in India have changed drastically since Campbell’s time. Tiger hunting is now banned and conservationists are usually able to rescue the big cats if they become stranded while navigating increasingly human-occupied areas. But is this enough to save the tiger?
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An amateur paleontologist discovered part of a limb bone of a huge sea turtle that lived some 70 million years ago. The other part of the same bone was first described in 1849.
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This physicist doesn’t just spend his days working with sidewinder rattlesnakes, but he makes robots of them, too.
From Popular Science:
Daniel Goldman spends his days working with venomous rattlesnakes, baby sea turtles, and a dozen other types of animals. But he isn’t a zookeeper, or even a biologist. He’s a physicist, studying locomotion at Georgia Tech. In order to test his hypotheses, he builds robots that mimic the ways animals move. Jealous yet?
Popular Science: Why do you have so many sandboxes?
Daniel Goldman: No one has ever studied the complexities of a sidewinder rattlesnake’s movement on sand, its natural substrate. In principle, you can understand how a hummingbird stays aloft or how a shark swims by solving fluid-dynamics equations. We don’t yet have fundamental equations for complex terrain—sand, leaf litter, tree bark. To figure that out, we built giant sandboxes that are equipped with high-speed cameras and can tilt to mimic dunes.
PS: Which animals are the hardest ones to work with?
DG: The rattlesnakes were a lucky break. You put them in a sandbox, and they just start sidewinding—the sideways slithering they do to cross sand. But most animals don’t do what you want. Ghost crabs, for example, are ridiculously fast. In the laboratory, you can get about 10 good trials out of them: They’ll run away from you down a track, where high-speed cameras record them. After that, they seem to decide they are no longer afraid and start trying to pinch you.
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An amateur paleontologist discovered part of a limb bone of a huge sea turtle that lived some 70 million years ago. The other part of the same bone was first described in 1849.
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When Europeans first arrived in North America, they exterminated three to five billion passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) in the short span of a century through a combination of habitat destruction and hunting. In 1914, the last living passenger pigeon perished at the Cincinnati Zoo. Despite the staggering scale of this extinction event, three species of vulture from Southeastern Asia retain the dubious distinction of having had the most rapid population crash of any avian fauna. They might not have begun with numbers as large as the passenger pigeon, but within the space of a single decade, their populations were reduced by 96 to 99 percent.
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A broken fossil turtle bone discovered by an amateur paleontologist in 2012 turned out to be the missing half of a bone first described in 1849. The surprising puzzle discovery has led paleontologists to revise conventional wisdom of how long fossils can survive exposed to surface conditions. It also provides insight into one of the largest turtle species ever known.
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[ Watch the Video: Two Turtle Bones Reunited After 160 Years ] Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Against insurmountable odds and after more than 160 years, an ancient sea turtle has finally been reunited – with itself. Fossil evidence of the massive turtle Atlantochelys mortoni was first discovered in 1849 in the form of one-half of an upper arm bone – called the humerus. The …
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Brooks Hays March 25 (UPI) — The two halves of a sea turtle humerus, their discoveries separated by almost two centuries, fit perfectly together.
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Thermoplastic exoskeleton could revolutionise car design.
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Now that paleontologists have assembled a complete humerus bone from the sea turtle Atlantocheyls mortoni , they have more information about the species and its overall size.
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In 1929, two sons of Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy Junior and Kermit) led an expedition that killed a barking deer, or muntjac, in present-day Laos, which has left scientists puzzled for over 80 years. At first scientists believed it to be a distinct species of muntjac and named it Roosevelt’s muntjac (Muntiacus rooseveltorum), however that designation was soon cast into doubt with some scientists claiming it was a specimen of an already-known muntjac or a subspecies. The problem was compounded by the fact that the animal simply disappeared in the wild. No one ever documented a living Roosevelt’s muntjac again—until now.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former host of Animal Planet's “Wild Recon” show has been sentenced to two years' probation and 200 hours of community service after admitting to trying to sell two endangered Iranian desert monitor lizards without a permit.
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Researchers at Ohio University have found evidence that a venomous snake existed in Africa 25 million years ago.
From Science World:
“In the Oligocene epoch, from about 34 to 23 million years ago, we would have expected to see a fauna dominated by booid snakes, such as boas and pythons. These are generally ‘sit and wait’ constricting predators that hide and ambush passing prey,” lead author Jacob McCartney, a postdoctoral researcher in the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, said in a news release.
The newly discovered species is named ‘Rukwabyoka holmani’ and was unearthed in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania. The species genus name comes from the Rukawa region with the Swahili word for snake. And the species name honors J.Alan Holman, a palaeontologist. The team found eight different types of fossil snakes varying in length from 2.6 mm to 5 mm.
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Newport Aquarium’s newest exhibit Turtle Canyon opened to the public at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, following an Annual Passholder preview event. (PRWeb March 22, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11694336.htm
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