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CHAPEL HILL — A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go extinct within 20 years as its population continues to plummet, scientists say. Read more…
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When the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meets from March 3-14 in Bangkok for its 16th Conference of Parties (CoP16), elephants and rhinos will be at the top of the agenda. While there are no proposals to open up trade in either elephant ivory or rhino horn, there are several other items on the agenda that will likely generate debate, including proposals for extension of the moratorium on ivory trade, a decision-making mechanism for ivory trade, and suspension of any rhino trophy hunting. Also to be discussed are enforcement mechanisms, including how to prevent illegal ivory from entering existing legal domestic markets.
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Alice Cooper needed a python for his stage performance in Switzerland later this month. When concert organizers reached out to the Lausanne Vivarium for help, they found out the reptile center was in danger of closing due to lack of funds.
From The Local, an English-language Swizz newspaper:
The Caprices Festival decided it could lend a helping hand and is dedicating 10 percent of the receipts from the Cooper concert to the reptile centre, Le Matin reported online on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, people interested in making a donation to the Vivarium can do so by making a payment at Swiss Post outlets on the reptile centre’s PostFinance account: Fondation du Vivavarium de Lausanne, Chemin de Boissonnet 82, 1010 Lausanne, IBAN CH30 0900 0000 1726 2022 4.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham.
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A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham.
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When countries meet in Bangkok, Thailand for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 16th Conference of Parties (CoP16), to be held from March 3-14, they’ll consider 70 proposals submitted by 55 States regarding a range of species, from polar bears to turtles and tropical timbers. To help sort through the many agenda items, CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon provided the following overview of the most significant issues.
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Researchers have radio-tracked frogs for the first time in Madagascar. Attaching tiny radio transmitters weighing 0.3-0.35 grams (1/100 of an ounce) to 36 rainbow frogs (Scaphiophryne gottlebei), the research team tracked the movement of the colorful frogs through rugged canyons in Madagascar’s Isalo Massif. They found that the frogs have a short breeding period that occurs after the first intense rainfall at the start of the rainy season.
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A key Congo wildlife reserve has lost 75 percent of its elephants in just 15 years due to poaching to meet Asian demand for ivory, reports a new survey by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Democratic Republic of Congo authorities.
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Federal fisheries officials are studying new types of turtle excluder devices for shrimp nets after a federal rule that would have required the devices in skimmer trawls was withdrawn last year.
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Scientists document dramatic decline in the Pacific leatherback sea turtle's numbers
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Federal fisheries officials are studying new types of turtle excluder devices for shrimp nets after a federal rule that would have required the devices in skimmer trawls was withdrawn last year.
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If you’re a huge fan of algebra, probability and math then you’ve come across the term “dependant events.” Fascinating stuff. No? James Bond knows about this stuff because he is a good poker player.
Really! Get on the internet and look it up. Cool stuff.
So what does math have to do with Frankie? Frankie has created dependant events just being in the gecko room.
For example, I have a routine in the gecko room. I have geckos therefore I clean gecko enclosures: It’s 100% gotta do and no probability to it.
Toss 85 pound sulcata tortoise into the gecko room and it’s a mess of probabilities and independent and dependant events, cause and effect and a touch of chaos.
This morning I went into the gecko room to begin chores. Frankie is sleeping under a pile of crumpled newspapers. Right off the bat I have to deal with probabilities: Frankie can continue to sleep or Frankie will wake up.
Greatly desiring that Frankie will sleep a little longer I turn his heat pad on a low setting. Frankie-cold means more sleep results in gecko chores completed. Still, I am putting off the inevitable event of Frankie waking up.
First thing I gotta do is feed the box turtles. If Frankie is awake for feed-box-turtle event then the probability of Frankie peeing on the floor increases dramatically. I grab supplements and food and immediately start feeding the girls.
The lower heat delay was worth about 20 minutes. I am not yet finished with feeding the girls when Frankie pulls up beside me (I am sitting on the floor) to see if his ladies are around. Frankie catches sight of Mama Turtle. Frankie pees.
It’s a chain of events that results in the gecko room getting mopped today. Today is not floor mopping day. Frankie seeing box turtles changed the outcome.
Frankie doesn’t get fed every day during winter however the probability he will be fed is directly related to the amount of newspaper he will consume to get the point across to me that today, indeed, is a day Frankie will be fed. It’s called Conditional Probability.
Frankie getting fed creates another curious dependant event.
I head outside to pick grass and weeds from the yard. I get
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $361.5 million and its unaud
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $230.6 million and
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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $401.9 million and its unaudit
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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.8 billion and its unaudited net asset value
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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $244.7 million and its unaudited
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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $979.1 million and its unaudited net ass
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.9 billion and its unaudited ne
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I am new to this site but am glad I found something place to share this and hopefully get some information from others too. In August my two boys found two baby painted turtles and brought them home. The turtles are from Northern Wisconsin which is the same state where we live. At first when I found out they were bringing them home I thought, “Oh great, who can I give these away too.” Then I saw them, it took all of 2 seconds for me to fall in love with both of them. Toby and Lily are their names. The lake they came from is overrun with painted turtles. From what we found learned you can actually see thousands of the little buggers everywhere and people/locals do not treat them very kindly. I won’t dare go into that part.
So we decided to keep them. We did tons and tons of research. We got the right food, lighting, and since I have been a fish keeper for years and years water quality and filtering was not an issue for me at all. However, since we got the turtles they have had continuing shell problems. At first they were constantly dull and looked cracked or crooked so I worked on that.
Then last Friday the big blow came…I picked up my little Toby who hadn’t been feeling well all week and found a dark spot on her tummy, when I pushed on it a little it was soft. The rest of her shell appeared to be in fairly good condition though. However, I made a vet appointment right away on Monday for both turtles. I found out Toby has a Calcium deficiency problem and an infection that is caused by this condition. I had everything written down that we had been doing…food, lighting, water, exercise. I found nothing we did could have prevented this. Before we got her this happened and because I didn’t know about it or what to look for it got worse.
The vet came back with my little Toby in his hand and told me things don’t look good and he couldn’t inject her with antibiotics because she’s so small yet. I begged him to please not give up because this isn’t just a turtle to me. I can’t explain it but I am very attached to her. So Toby got the injections.
Over the last week I have injected Toby with her antibiotics everyday, her food is being coated in calcium and fed to her (thankfully she eats out of my hand). At the beginning of this her shell did have the slight bleeding and I would move her for her because I know how painful it is for her to move right now. So now that it is Friday her energy level is way up, she is moving around really great, she loves her new more powerful UV light and the new tank set-up, she is eating like crazy, …read more
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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, 2013 and cumulativ
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Biologists have discovered two new species of salamander in Tamá National Natural Park in Colombia. While the discovery should be cause for celebration, the news was dampened by the fact that both species are already infected with the deadly fungal disease, known as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which has wiped out amphibian populations worldwide. Both of the new salamanders belong to the genus Bolitoglossa, which are web-footed salamanders found in the tropical Americas.
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The world’s largest turtle may be extinct in as little as 20 years, conclude researchers in a study published this week.
“Sea turtles have been around about 100 million years and survived the extinction of the dinosaurs but are struggling to survive the impact of humans,” said reproductive biologist Thane Wibbels of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), a member of a research team studying the fate of these reptiles.
The leatherback — the world’s largest turtle — can grow to six feet long and weigh as much as 2,000 pounds.
A study published this week in the Ecological Society of America’s scientific journal Ecosphere estimates that only about 500 leatherbacks now nest at their last large nesting site in the Pacific, down from thousands previously. The study tracked the turtle’s ongoing population decline since the 1980s.
“If the decline continues, leatherback turtles will become extinct in the Pacific Ocean within 20 years,” Wibbels said.
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Count coral in the Chagos Archipelago, save amphibians from the deadly chytrid fungus, replant trees in the Atlantic Forest, and count predators and prey in the African Savannah—a new free online game by Wildscreen, dubbed Team WILD, allows young players to learn about science and conservation while moving fast-paced through different ecosystems. Wildscreen is a conservation charity devoted to using imagery to raise awareness and protect wildlife.
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The majestic Pacific leatherback turtle could be extinct in two decades, scientists say.
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The majestic leatherback — the world's largest turtle — could be extinct in two decades, scientists say.
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The world’s largest sea turtle, the leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), is vanishing from its most important nesting sites in the western Pacific, according to a new study in Ecosphere. Scientists found that leatherback turtle nests have dropped by 78 percent in less than 30 years in the Bird’s Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea. Worryingly, these beaches account for three-fourths of the western Pacific’s distinct leatherback population; globally the leatherback is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List, the highest rating before extinction.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile (10,000 km) ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go extinct within 20 years as its population continues to plummet, scientists say. “Sea turtles have been around about 100 million years and survived the extinction of the dinosaurs but are struggling to …
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The annual Sea Turtle Day Festival attracted 4,000 people last year, and Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is ready for its close-up on Saturday.
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Ridgefield — “Sit” and “sleep” sound more like commands you would bark at the family dog than at an alligator.
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Johnson County Public Library celebrates culmination with its 18th annual winter reading program with a special event at its four branches.
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The powerful venom of the saw-scaled viper Echis carinatus contains both anticoagulants and coagulants according to a new study. These may be a source of potent drugs to treat human disease. The saw-scaled viper family Echis, responsible for most snake attacks on humans, are recognizable by the ‘sizzling’ noise they make, produced by rubbing together special serrated scales, when threatened. Echis venom causes coagulopathy, which can result in symptoms ranging from lack of blood clotting, hemorrhage, renal failure and stroke.
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The promise of lemurs, lizards, and a bouquet of biodiversity brought mongabay.com founder Rhett Butler to Madagascar sixteen years ago. He was not disappointed by what he found and was inspired to return, many times to experience the wildlife, landscapes, and people of the dynamic island. In 2004, Rhett founded wildmadagascar.org, a site that highlights the spectacular cultural and biological richness of Madagascar and reports on environmental news for the Indian Ocean island nation.
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An international team led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has documented a 78 percent decline in the number of nests of the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) at the turtle's last stronghold in the Pacific Ocean.
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International team led by UAB finds 78 percent drop in leatherback turtle nests at primary nesting site; largest marine turtle in world may vanish.
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An international team led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has documented a 78 percent decline in the number of nests of the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) at the turtle’s last stronghold in the Pacific Ocean.
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The number of tigers being captive bred in China for consumption exceed those surviving in the wild—across 13 countries—by over a third, according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The report, Hidden in Plain Sight, alleges that while the Chinese government has been taking a tough stance on tiger conservation abroad, at home it has been secretly creating demand for the internationally-banned trade. Few animals in the world have garnered as much conservation attention at the tiger (Panthera tigirs), including an international summit in 2010 that raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the vanishing wild cats.
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Our Jeff Barringer was at the NARBC show in Arlington, Tex., last weekend — and faster than you can say, “Pics or it didn’t happen!”, he created this photo album from the show.
Our favorite? The beautiful artwork displayed by Jeff Littlejohn, like this piece:
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Menswear and accessories maker Turtle is set to launch hand-woven khadi garments next month. The new range – complete with shirts, trousers and jackets – will be marketed as premium casual wear and will hit stores by the first week of March.
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