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Carrying an alligator bag on an airline flight is fine, but live alligators are banned from boarding. That might explain why a toothy reptile was slithering around Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Friday.
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He has counted sea-turtle nests in the Key West National Wildlife Refuge for nearly a quarter-century but federal biologist Tom Wilmers never saw a year like this. “It's a year beyond my wildest dreams,” Wilmers said. “It's phenomenal … fabulous.”
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Edgar Ortega is a reptile guy.
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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.1 billion and its unaudited net asset
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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $264.8 million and its unaudited
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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $459.4 million and its unaudit
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.2 billion and its unaudited ne
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $399.0 million and its unaud
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $233.2 million and
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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited net asset value
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Researchers returning from an expedition to a cloud forest in Colombia have released photos of the world’s most recently-discovered carnivore, the olinguito.
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Researchers returning from an expedition to a cloud forest in Colombia have released photos of the world’s most recently-discovered carnivore, the olinguito.
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Police seized 16 pythons, a venomous snake and a lizard from a house in east Gatineau on Wednesday and a 24-year-old man is facing charges.
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SINGAPORE – A monitor lizard was caught on camera taking a stroll near Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. A contributor to citizen journalism website Stomp sent in a picture, saying that he saw the lizard while he was in the vicinity today. He added that he was surprised to see the monitor lizard stalking about on a grass patch near the hospital. Visit STOMP for more stories.
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Planning on heading for next year’s G20 Summit in Australia? Don’t bring your snake.
From the Brisbane Times:
Police have been granted the power to search anyone carrying eggs, cans of beans, model planes, surfboards, insects or reptiles near security areas, under new laws for the G20 summit.
The G20 Safety and Security Bill was passed in Parliament on Tuesday night, making it easier for police to strip search and arrest trouble makers during next year’s G20 summit.
Included in the bill is a vast list of items banned from designated “security areas” in Brisbane and Cairns.
As well as knives, swords, guns and explosive tools, the list of prohibited items includes glass bottles or jars, metal cans or tins, eggs, reptiles and insects.
AdvertisementUnder the laws, a police officer may seize a prohibited item if the officer reasonably suspects a person in a security area has possession of the item without a lawful excuse, or if the person is about to enter the restricted area with a prohibited item without a lawful excuse.
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More than 25,000 green sea turtle nests were counted on 26 state beaches this year, more than twice the previous record.
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This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on Oct. 31, 2013 and cumulativ
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Police seized 16 pythons, a poisonous snake and a lizard from a house in east Gatineau on Wednesday and a 24-year-old man is facing charges.
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A major premise of biology, as any high-schooler can tell you, is the study of the connections between organisms. Perhaps nowhere is there a better example of this than in Malaysia, where the population of Endangered Malayan tigers (Panthera tigris jacksoni) is being undercut by dwindling prey. A recent study by MYCAT, the Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers, highlights this connection by presenting a distinct correlation between prey and tiger population.
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A major premise of biology, as any high-schooler can tell you, is the study of the connections between organisms. Perhaps nowhere is there a better example of this than in Malaysia, where the population of Endangered Malayan tigers (Panthera tigris jacksoni) is being undercut by dwindling prey. A recent study by MYCAT, the Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers, highlights this connection by presenting a distinct correlation between prey and tiger population.
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An alligator snapping turtle was found in Oregon reservoir last week.
From KGW.com:
It was the first time the invasive species was found in eastern Oregon, according to Rick Boatner of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The species is native to the southeastern United States, Boatner said. It can grow to 250 lbs.
“I’d hate to see these turtles get established in Oregon,” Boatner said. “We already have problems in the Willamette Valley with common snapping turtles.”
He added that the alligator snapping turtle can be very aggressive, and it’s a safety hazard to people.
“It has quite a bite,” he said.
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A rare turtle sighting is making waves on B.C.'s north coast.
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As long-time followers of The Prudent Speculator would be quick to attest, the ideas that we convey are simple and consistent. Like the turtle in the Tortoise and the Hare, we believe that long-term investment success favors those who hunt for value as opposed to chasers of hot trends. Readers of these posts know that I have been preaching this idea in nearly all of my missives. Of course, with …
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With the help of DNA tests, scientists have declared a new dolphin species that dwells off the coast of northern Australia. The discovery was made after a team of researchers looked at the world’s humpback dolphins (in the genus Sousa), which sport telltale humps just behind their dorsal fins. While long-known to science, the new, as-yet-unnamed species was previously lumped with other humpback dolphins in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Green sea turtle nests have exceeded the state’s expectations this year.
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Let’s go surfin’ now, all the snakes are learnin’ how…
Okay, not all the snakes. But some Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes have been spotted on a Florida beach and in the ocean recently.
From WFTV.com:
Valeh Levy shot video Friday New Smyrna Beach but said her son was one of the first surfers to spot the snake in the waves.
“My son came running up toward my minivan and he said, ‘Mommy, you’re not going to believe this but there’s a rattlesnake in the surf,'” Levy said.
Witnesses estimate it was 4-5 feet long and came onto the beach from the ocean. Levy said her son described how surfers tried to avoid the snake swimming right by them.
“He said the coolest part was that the snake raised half of its body up and looked out towards the surf and a wave was coming and the snake turned towards the beach and kind of let the wave bump it on in,” Levy said.
Experts said it isn’t common to see a rattlesnake in the ocean, but Smyrna Dunes Park near where the one was spotted is a natural habitat for them where they eat rats, small rabbits, and even baby raccoons.
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An expedition to Cape York Peninsula in north-east Australia has found three vertebrate species new to science and isolated for millions of years — a bizarre looking leaf-tail gecko, a golden-colored skink and a boulder-dwelling frog.
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Institutions and governments have been scanning human irises for years to verify one’s identity—Google has been using this method since 2011—but could iris-scanning be employed on other species as well? According to a new study in Amphibia-Reptila, the answer is ‘yes.’ Scientists have recently employed iris scanning to visually distinguish individuals of an imperiled gecko subspecies (Tarentola boettgeri bischoffi) found on Portugal’s Savage Islands off the coast of Western Sahara. l.
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A new public-service campaign in China will ask potential ivory and rhino horn buyers to see the victims of these illicit trades in a new light: as the “pandas of Africa.” The posters are a part of WildAid’s ‘Say No to Ivory and Rhino Horn’ campaign, which was launched earlier in the year.
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790 rhinos have been poached in South Africa this year, nearly a fifth higher than last year’s record toll, reports the Department of Environmental Affairs.
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Why are so many humans afraid of snakes? Scientists may have the answer.
From the LA Times:
We’re not born with a fear of snakes, but it sure seems to develop early.
Now scientists may be closer to a explaining why ophidiophobia ranks among the top fears of humans, and seems to be shared with other primates.
Researchers inserted probes into the brains of Japanese macacques and found that neurons in a part of their brain that controls visual attention were more strongly and quickly activated in response to images of snakes, versus other objects.
The results, published online Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, appear to support a theory that early primates developed advanced perception as an evolutionary response to being prey, not as an adaptation that may have made foraging or hunting easier.
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Was the evolution of high-quality vision in our ancestors driven by the threat of snakes? New work supports this theory. In a new paper, researchers show that there are specific nerve cells in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys that respond to images of snakes.
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Researchers from James Cook University and National Geographic discovered three new herp species — a cryptic leaf-tail gecko, a colorful skink, and a frog — during an expedition to northeastern Australia. The species are described in three papers published in October in the journal Zootaxa.
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A rambunctious reptile caused Regina firefighters to scramble Monday morning, but they soon scaled back their response.
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Scientists have found what they're describing as a “lost world” on the northern tip of Queensland, Australia, hosting at least three previously undocumented species, including a frog that makes love in the rain.
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One of the world’s least-known flying foxes could face extinction by rising seas and changing precipitation patterns due to global warming, according to a new study in Zookeys. The research, headed by Donald Buden with the College of Micronesia, is the first in-depth study of the resident bats of the remote Mortlock Islands, a part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
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The first corner on the Surfers Paradise track is not the place to be for a lizard. Photos Brian Hurst The first corner on the Surfers Paradise track is not the place to be for a lizard.
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Check out this video “Bearded Dragon eating,” submitted by kingsnake.com user captainjwl.
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A rehabilitated juvenile flatback turtle will be released into the wild and tracked by the WA Department of Parks and Wildlife using satellite technology.
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