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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited net asset value
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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as of Feb. 28, 2014
Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as …
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $417.1 million and its unaud
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage …
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $236.4 million and
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as …
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 billion and its unaudited ne
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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as …
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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $287.9 million and its unaudited
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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as of Feb …
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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.2 billion and its unaudited net asset
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Fruit-eating ‘bayawak’
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The northern Sierra Madre forest monitor lizard, Varanus bitatawa, is one of the largest species of monitor lizard known from the Philippines. Indigenous Dumagat and people of the Sierra Madre Mountains call the lizard bitatawa or baritatawa.
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Society seeks salamander-spotting citizen scientists
Do you ever catch site of spotted salamanders and wood frogs in the field? The Orianne Society wants to recruit you.
From Living Alongside Wildlife:
The Orianne Society recently initiated “Snapshots in Time”, a long-term Citizen Science project aimed at mobilizing people to monitor the timing of Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) and Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) breeding throughout the respective ranges of these species. The purpose of this project is to use the data collected—by on-the-ground citizens, year-after-year—to investigate possible effects of climate change on the timing of reproduction. Determining changes in the timing of breeding is very important, not just for these species, but others that use the same habitat. Ultimately, the results of this project could allow us to inform land managers and development planners of important areas for conservation and look deeper into what other species in these ecosystems may be negatively affected by climate change, including some endangered species.
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Croc v snake in reptile rumble
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WHOA! It’s the heavyweight reptile battle to end them all. This python saw this crocodile and decided he’d make a good feed. Who won?
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Burmese pythons pose little risk to people in Everglades, study suggests
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The estimated tens of thousands of Burmese pythons now populating the Everglades present a low risk to people in the park, according to a new study. The human risk assessment looked at five incidents that involved humans and Burmese pythons over a 10-year period in Everglades National Park. All five incidents involved pythons striking at biologists who were conducting research in flooded wetlands.
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Turtle believed to have come from Samoa found dead
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DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines – A green sea turtle was found dead by La Union fishermen on Friday after it was believed to have swum 8,000 kilometers from Samoa. The fishermen of Taboc village in San Juan town found the turtle floating about 200 meters from the shore. The turtle was tagged with the inscription “240 Apia Samoa sprep@sprep.org 448695.” “Maybe it was coming to feed,” said Laura …
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Saving the turtles
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Taking part in the Seatru Turtle Volunteer Programme has made a conservation convert of Lidiana Rosli
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Turtle believed to have come from Samoa found dead
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A green sea turtle was found dead by La Union fishermen on Friday after it was believed to have swum 8,000 kilometers from Samoa.
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Saving the turtles
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Taking part in the Seatru Turtle Volunteer Programme has made a conservation convert of Lidiana Rosli
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Color of passion: Orange underbellies of female lizards signal fertility
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Australian lizards are attracted to females with the brightest orange patches — but preferably not too large — on their underbelly, according to research. Lake Eyre dragon lizards are found exclusively in salt deserts in southern Australia, where they feed on dead insects. When females become fertile they develop bright orange patches on their normally pale underbelly and change their behavior towards males: instead of “waving them away” with their forelegs or fleeing, they let the males court them with showy behavior like push-ups and head bobs. Males were most attracted to females with small, bright orange patches and tended to avoid those with larger, paler ones. It is thought that bright color is attractive as it indicates peak female fertility. Pregnant females retain their coloration until laying and very large orange spots suggest the female is swollen with eggs and no longer interested in mating.
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. Provides Section 19(a) Notice
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This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on Feb. 28, 2014 and cumulativ
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Saving the turtles
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Taking part in the Seatru Turtle Volunteer Programme has made a conservation convert of Lidiana Rosli
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Start of sea turtle nesting season in FL
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Final preparations are complete for the start of what could be a record-setting sea turtle nesting season in south Florida. Those preparations come with new warnings for humans.
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Saving the turtles
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Taking part in the Seatru Turtle Volunteer Programme has made a conservation convert of Lidiana Rosli
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Tortoise rustling leads to drastic measures to prevent animals going extinct
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Tortoise rustling leads to drastic measures to prevent the animals being driven out of existence
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South Africa loses nearly 150 rhinos to poachers so far this year
By Herp News
Since the first of the year, South Africa has lost 146 rhinos to poachers or approximately 2.5 rhinos every day. This is a slight dip from last year’s poaching rate, which hit 1,004 for the whole year or 2.75 a day. South Africa is home to more rhinos than any other country on the planet, but the populations have been hit hard by poachers in recent years seeking rhino horn.
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Palm oil plantations allegedly poison seven Critically Endangered elephants in Sumatra
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Wildlife officials suspect foul play in the deaths of seven Sumatran elephants on the outskirts of Tesso Nilo National Park. Officials stumbled on the corpses of one female elephant, five young males, and one male calf in mid-February. Although the males had their tusks hacked off, the officials suspect the elephant were poisoned in revenge for disturbing illegal palm oil plantations inside the park.
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Herp Video of the Week: Snack Time!
Check out this video “Snack Time,” submitted by kingsnake.com user boa2cobras.
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To Save Endangered Tortoises, Conservationists Deface Their Shells
By Herp News
The ploughshare tortoise's ornate golden shell makes it a popular black market pet. In California, the Turtle Conservancy is trying to give the threatened species a second chance.
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To Save Endangered Tortoises, Conservationists Deface Their Shells
By Herp News
The ploughshare tortoise's ornate golden shell makes it a popular black market pet. In California, the Turtle Conservancy is trying to give the threatened species a second chance.
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Turtle pests spotted in Taupo
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Sightings of red-eared slider turtles in Lake Taupo have prompted a wave of concern from the Waikato Regional Council. Turtle pests spotted in Taupo news, national, turtles, lake taupo
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Birds of the Serengeti – book review
By Herp News
Birds of the Serengeti: And Ngorongoro Conservation Area by Adam Scott Kennedy may be the best birding book available covering the general safari region for northwestern Tanzania and southern Kenya. Filled with firsthand accounts, excellent photographs, and broken down into chapters by habitats, Birds of the Serengeti: And Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the guidebook for the broader non-scientific community.
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Two Texas salamanders placed on federal threatened species list
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it’s placing the Georgetown and Salado salamanders on the threatened species list, despite ongoing opposition from pro-development forces in Texas.
From the Austin Business Journal:
The salamanders have been a contentious issue for both environmentalists and some community officials, who have struggled over how to protect the animals while preserving development opportunities. The full impact of the decision won’t be clear until the Fish and Wildlife service sets rules for how the salamanders will be protected, according to a report in the Austin American-Statesman.
In the case of the Georgetown salamander, the agency may allow local Georgetown’s local protections to remain in place. Those regulations prevent development within 80 meters of a salamander site and within 50 meters of a spring as well as limited development up to 300 meters upstream. The city passed those rules in December hoping to fend off federal protection, the Statesman report said. If the federal agency decides the local ordinances are sufficient, local developers won’t need a federal permit for building.
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Disoriented turtle takes a walk along the Esplanade
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A TURTLE has been spotted wandering down the Esplanade and has surprised afternoon walkers in Hervey Bay.
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Invasive lizard taking over habitat in Florida
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Brooks Hays TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 26 (UPI) — Wildlife officials in Florida are setting traps to catch a giant invasive lizard they say is taking over habitat, threatening native and endangered species.
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Large, invasive lizard is taking over parts of Florida
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Wildlife officials say people buy them as pets, then release them in preserves.
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Climate change causes high but predictable extinction risks
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Judging the effects of climate change on extinction may be easier than previously thought, according to a new article. Although widely used assessments of threatened species, such as the IUCN Red List, were not developed with the effects of climate change in mind, a study of 36 amphibian and reptile species endemic to the US has concluded that climate change may not be fundamentally different from other extinction threats in terms of identifying species in danger of extinction.
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Ninth Sea Turtle fest Saturday at Gumbo Limbo
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With four exhibit tanks to show off, a new Neptune mural and tours of the sea turtle rehab, the city's Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is ready for its closeup on Saturday at the ninth annual Sea Turtle Day Festival.
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Hotel owner Eric Goode hosts second annual Turtle Ball
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The most popular guests at Eric Goode’s annual Turtle Ball at his Bowery Hotel on Sunday night were the reptiles. Red-bellied, short-necked and New Guinea snake-necked turtles, as well as…
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Peru Park Sets Record for Reptile, Amphibian Biodiversity
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For reptiles and amphibians, southern Peru's Manu National Park is the most diverse protected area on the planet. Deforestation, gold mining and oil and gas drilling are closing in on the buffer zone around the park.
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Snake find in Galapagos sets off alarm bells
Was a milk snake discovered in the Galapagos?
Equador’s Ministerio del Ambiente (Ministry of the Environment) announced that yesterday, a group of citizens from the island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Islands gave the Rangers a snake so far unidentified, possibly a false coral, that was hit on the road Puerto Ayora – Itabaca Channel, off Santa Rosa parish.
After reviewing the photograph published to the ministry’s website, kingsnake.com staff members agree that the snake appears to be a member of the Lampropeltis triangulum group, known as commonly as milk snakes. Possibly a member of the micropholis subspecies, found natively in Ecuador and known as the Equadoran milk snake, little has been published on the sub-species, and few specimens or even photographs exist.
As milk snakes are not known to be native to the Galapagos, it is most likely that the snake arrived as a stowaway and slipped through the Galapagos quarantine programs. If so, according to historical record, this would be the first confirmed case of snake introduction to the Galapagos Islands. But there is also the slim chance that the snakes are native to the island, their presence being unknown and unrecorded for all these years.
The Ministry of Environment, through the Galapagos National Park (GNP) and the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Biosecurity and Quarantine for Galapagos (ABG), has established an action plan to monitor the area finding and determine the possible origin.
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Escaped tuatara found outside New Zealand sanctuary
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 25 (UPI) — Officials at a New Zealand animal sanctuary said a tuatara lizard found by a woman walking her dog is lucky to be alive after escaping the sanctuary.
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Lady Gaga gets bitten by venomous primate, sparking outrage over loris trafficking
By Herp News
Last week, the musical artist, Lady Gaga, was ‘nipped’ by the world’s only venomous primate, a slow loris, in a misguided attempt to use the animal in a new music video. After it bit the musician, the idea of using the primate in the video was dropped. This was just as well, according to loris expert Anna Nekaris, who says that slow lorises have become increasingly endangered worldwide by the illegal pet trade after people have seen them on YouTube videos.
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John Cornyn Is Running Against a Racist, a Turtle-Hater, and a Non-Voter
By Herp News
The people challenging Senate Minority Leader John Cornyn in the Texas Republican primary next month include: a guy who defends calling immigrants “wetbacks,” a guy known for comparing Sen. Mitch McConnell to a cartoon turtle, and a House member who never votes in primaries. This is why Cornyn is polling above 60 percent, despite having a half dozen challengers. Chris Mapp Mapp and Sen. Ted Cruz …
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Four alligators in Missouri car crash
A Missouri car accident involved some unusal cargo: Four alligators.
From KMBC.com:
KFVS-TV reports two crashes happened in the southbound lanes of Interstate 55 in the southeast Missouri community around 7 p.m. Saturday.
Four alligators ranging from 3 feet to 5 feet long were being hauled in a small trailer behind one of the cars.
A man and his wife who were in the car pulling the alligators were injured in the wreck. Police say the animals remained inside.
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