This is an attractively marked Eastern Box Turtle is named Louie and the owner says he is 9 years old! Louie the Box Turtle is our spotlight in our Herp Photo of the Day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user terrapene! Be sure to tell terrapene you liked it here!
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A good veterinarian needs the skills of a super sleuth…in the category of Sherlock Holmes or Poirot….given that most of their patients don’t speak. The super sleuth veterinarian must draw on excellent skills of observation and deductive reasoning to figure out what is wrong with their patient.
Owners need the same super observation and deductive skills. Regretfully, my skills were slow to notice that something was wrong with Frankie. In the last few weeks I was slow noticing what was going on and wrongly deduced the situation. I mistook Frankie’s lack of “getting around the yard” to mean “it’s to hot to walk around the yard.”
Frankie wasn’t getting around the yard much and it was defiantly hot outside. Frankie would find a cool spot in the yard and stick there for most of the day. That I noticed.
The bigger clue that got me thinking something was wrong was Frankie wobbled when he walked. Still, I just watched.
It was cooler outside one evening so I took Frankie for a Big Walk. He walked, slowly, down four houses, sat on the neighbors lawn, and then sat to grazed eating only the the grass that was within “head reach”
The walk back to the house, took an soooo long and Frankie kept stopping to rest. I started adding up everything I’d seen in the last two weeks and came to one very sure result: Frankie was having mobility issues.
Frankie’s local veterinarian was unable to do an x-ray saying his equipment was not appropriate for large tortoises. He suggested I find a horse veterinarian to have them do the xray on a portable machine.
The equine veterinarians I called would have this very long pause when I explained that I needed an xray of a 100 pound sulcata tortoise. Only one would consider doing the x-ray and it would be another week before they could see Frankie.
I had a sense of urgency that Frankie needed to be seen SOON, and I needed a very confident veterinarian could do the job.
So I drove four hours to Birmingham, AL to see the best turtle doctor in Alabama: Dr. Alvin Atlas.
Yes, I did. Just Frankie and me, in the car, for four hours.
At the vet’s office, they sent staff to help me get Frankie out of the car and into the building. It took some time to get the limping Frankie inside. Just walking into the examination room was painful. Unlike his last visit to see Dr. Atlas, Frankie just sat there.
This is far enough. Not walking another step.
When Dr. Atlas came in to see Frankie all I told him was Frankie was having mobility problems. Dr. Atlas sat on his stool and he and Frankie just stared at each other.
Dr. Atlas said, “That is unusual.”
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The beautiful pygmy frog, Microhyla pulchra, is a one-of-a-kind amphibian. But its uniqueness, known as crypsis, is making conservation efforts challenging.
From io9.com:
Crypsis is an entity’s ability to avoid detection. It can be a predator’s ability to avoid being spotted by prey, or prey’s ability to avoid being spotted by predators, or, in this case, an animal’s ability to avoid being spotted by biologists. Although I know it’s a valid term for a behavior, I can’t help but admire the ability of biologists to make their own failure to find an animal into a recognized property of the animal.
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I have been giving lectures and conducting workshops on reptile management and awareness for some time. I’ve never written about them until now because, to be frank, I never found anything special to be shared. That changed with my last workshop, however, and I would love to share it.
My soccer coach, Mr. Savio Dsouza, has always been supportive of my passion for snakes, and he was the one to organize the reptile management workshop. It was conducted in a boarding school named Rishi Gurukulam Ashram. The best thing about this school is that it is situated in a valley with only greenery and mountains to be seen.
The lecture was conducted by me and my partners Akshay Parahlkar (Axy) and Anirudh Rathod, and we had carried four snakes to show them: The common krait, the common trinket snake, the checkered keelback water snake, and the most common of all, the rat snake.
If I were to try to praise the students and teachers of the school, it would take ten more pages to write. The reason why I loved this school so much is because each and every person there loves snakes and respects them because they have been encountering them regularly and they are very well aware that these slitherins are harmless.
During the lecture the students were very interactive, and I was very amazed to see that even a first grade student was able to identify the snakes found in that area and there was not a single person in the crowd who was scared of snakes. Being a snake conservationist I would say these are the actual people who I respect a lot because after all the thing which makes me happy is that even people who are not into herpetology or the reptile world are trying their best to conserve and protect these magnificent creatures.
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Snakes and Cats living together, it will be anarchy! Wait what? Nah it is just a nice shot of a Cat Snake (Boiga cyanea) in our Herp Photo of the Day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user ptahtoo! Be sure to tell ptahtoo you liked it here!
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Apprently the friend of your enemy is your enemy, when it comes to sea turtles — at least in Florida, where a Vietnam veteran was allegedly shot with his own gun by someone who took exception to his efforts to protect a sea turtle nest.
From Local10.com:
A Vietnam veteran was shot while trying to save baby sea turtles at a South Florida beach.
Stan Pannaman, 72, of Tamarac, was shot Friday night near a sea turtle nest in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
Pannaman said he and Doug Young, a fellow volunteer trying to protect the nest, were confronted by Michael McAuliffe, who approached them and said he didn’t like sea turtles.
“He got more aggressive and he got up and he came towards us and he started pulling the stakes away from the nest area,” Young told Local 10 News.
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This past winter, as a cold front came barreling through, I decided to make certain that all of the tortoises were snug in their heated winter houses. I quickly scanned the pens and saw only a few desert box turtles, Terrapene ornata luteola still out. Although I probably needn’t have worried about them I quickly shepherded all into their warmed quarters and then took a head count of the tortoises already slumbering soundly in the houses. Hmmmm. One missing leopard tortoise, Geochelone (Stigmochelys) p. pardalis, and 2 missing desert box turtles. Well, those shouldn’t be hard to find so I began a search of pen. Under the ground level philodendron leaves? Nope. Resting quietly on the grassy substrate? Nope. Hidden by the few patches of tall grasses? Nope. No chelonians to be found. So I started over and again came up empty handed.
“Patti! Could you please help me find this tortoise?”
We both looked and we both failed. Still no star.
Then when I looked down I was standing right next to a patch of tall grass that was about 12 x 14 inches. Way too small for a 10 inch long leopard tortoise, right? But that’s where it was, smack in the middle and all but invisible. Those camouflaging carapacial markings sure are sure effective. We didn’t find the desert box turtles that night but they showed up again when the weather moderated. And I won’t mention the several times I’ve looked for an hour or more for an Indian star tortoise in their 30 x 40 foot pen.
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No longer just black and white, these snakes show some of the variety in color that the Black Headed Pythons have in our Herp Photo of the Day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Tom_Keogan! Be sure to tell Tom you liked it here!
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No longer just black and white, these snakes show some of the variety in color that the Black Headed Pythons have in our Herp Photo of the Day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Tom_Keogan!
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By Herp News
Researching one of the world’s most endangered penguins in New Zealand, the yellow-eyed penguin, has led to a remarkable discovery. DNA from 500-year-old penguin fossils has shown that the country was once home to not just one penguin species, but two. The DNA has resurrected an unknown extinct penguin, which researchers have named the Waitaha Penguin.
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South Korea’s Daewoo has signed a 99-year lease for half of Madagascar’s arable land, reports the Financial Times. The agreement covers 1.3 million hectares (3.2 million acres) — an area half the size of Belgium. Daewoo says it plans to plant corn on 1 million hectares in the arid western part of the island and 300,000 ha (740,000 acres) of oil palm on land in the tropical east, a region that is home to the bulk of Madagascar’s rare rainforests. The company will produce the food for export and plans to import workers from South Africa, although a Daewoo spokesman said that the project could create up to 70,000 local jobs.
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Scientists have yet to conclusively explain the underlying cause of global declines in amphibian populations, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research says that two leading theories for the demise of amphibians — both related to the emergence and spread of the deadly chytrid fungus — are not supported by scientific data.
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With its characteristic horn, the endangered rhino rat snake has been bred in a European zoo for the first time.
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Frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians are disappearing at an alarming rate. Of approximately 6,000 amphibian species in the world, about one third are classified as threatened or endangered. A disease caused by a chytrid fungus has devastated frogs living in mid to high elevation streams worldwide. Amphibians also face habitat destruction as forests and wetlands are developed and polluted by agricultural chemicals. In Panama, highland frog populations west of the Canal have declined at an alarming rate.
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Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost species of primate on a remote island in Indonesia. Conducting a survey of Mount Rore Katimbo in Lore Lindu National Park on the island of Sulawesi, a team led by Sharon Gursky-Doyen of Texas A&M University captured three pygmy tarsiers, a tiny species of primate that was last collected in 1921 and was assumed to be extinct until 2000 when two scientists studying rats accidently trapped and killed an individual. Gursky-Doyen’s team spent two months using 276 mist nets to capture the gremlin-like creatures so they could be fitted with radio collars and tracked. One other individual was spotted but eluded capture.
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A new study has found that colugos or flying lemurs are twice as diverse as previously believed.
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Dr. Laurie Marker, founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), has been awarded $50,000 by the Tech Museum of Innovation for her organization’s Bushblok program which uses a high-pressure extrusion process to convert invasive, habitat-destroying bush into a clean-burning fuel log. Bushblok provides an alternative to products such as firewood, coal, lump charcoal and charcoal briquettes that are costly or result in environmental harm.
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Caspian Seal populations have declined 90% in the past 100 years, prompting the IUCN to switch their designation from Vulnerable to Endangered.
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The Bush Administration is expected to publish rules that relax protections for endangered species ahead of tomorrow’s deadline in order for them to take effect immediately, reports the Associated Press.
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Reading the subject line on this post, most of my American friends might think I’m writing about the beautiful red, yellow, and black coral snake. Sorry, my dear friends; this is an Indian coral snake, and also a very beautiful one.
The slender coral snake, calliophis melanurus, is a species of coral snake found in India, and luckily it is also found in my state.
Because it’s rare, I was never able to see this snake from the day I entered into reptile world and was very desperate to see this beauty. Finally my desperation ended happily when I met this sweet fellow on my herping two weeks ago.
The slender coral snake is a small and thin snake with the maximum length of 35 cm. This snake has a cylindrical body with smooth scales, and the color is light brown with black head and neck. The tail has two black rings. The underside of this snake is coral red, and the scales under the tail are greyish-blue and black. When the snake is disturbed, it curls up its tail. It usually feeds on blind snake/worm snake and lays 2-7 eggs under dried leaves or in crevices.
Finding this snake was so unbelievable that when my friends saw it, I asked them two or three times, “Dude, are you sure it’s a slender coral snake?” A very sweet and gentle snake, I can’t explain the level of happiness of finding this snake, but I would say that the last weeks happiness is still impacting me.
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The Dorset Wildlife Trust has a message to herpers: live tin alone.
From the BBC:
Reptile conservationist Gary Powell said: “If tins are disturbed outside of an official survey then it can affect the results of the research”.
Disturbing protected species could result in breaking the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations Act.
Conservationists from Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and Dorset Wildlife Trust leave small pieces of tin and sometimes roofing felt at Upton Heath nature reserve in Corfe Mullen.
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This Copperhead is looking forward to the what the week hold in our Herp Photo of the Day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user HerpLvr!
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Good news on the environmental front in Madagascar has been rare and fleeting in recent years, but today the Indian Ocean island’s Prime Minister gave conservationists a bit of hope by officially decreeing seven new reserves that target critical habitats for endangered lemurs, chameleons, and frogs.
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In the remote, poorly explored and unprotected forests of Sorata, northern Madagascar, there are some bizarre and unknown animals lurking around. A new species of diamond frog has just joined their ranks. Its unusually long legs set it apart from all but one of its closest relatives. Unfortunately, it is already endangered and action is needed to protect its forest home.
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Grumpy Turtle demands you have an amazing weekend in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user andystorts!
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By Herp News
Good news on the environmental front in Madagascar has been rare and fleeting in recent years, but today the Indian Ocean island’s Prime Minister gave conservationists a bit of hope by officially decreeing seven new reserves that target critical habitats for endangered lemurs, chameleons, and frogs.
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Kenny had already visited it. I had never heard of it. You’ll love the Bruni dump he told me. Cool stuff. Really cool.
If you’re a herper, you’ll probably already have guessed that it was not the trash that was of interest to us. It was what had found their homes beneath the trash: the herps, and for me at least, the small mammals, that were the “cool stuff.”
We jogged down a couple of short blocks, paralleled the railroad tracks for a block or two and voila, instant herp habitat. Even before we left the car we were able to observe the first herp, a group of very alert and active prairie racerunners, Aspidoscelis sexlineatus viridis.
We flipped a few pieces of trash and beneath a piece of tarp, we found the first snake, a beautiful Texas patch-nose, Salvadora grahamiae lineata. Cool indeed.
Beneath a small piece of plywood was a pair of flat-headed snakes, Tantilla gracilis. Then our luck dried up for a while.
But just before we left, beneath a huge torn and discarded tarp we found the prize of the day–a magnificent adult Schott’s whipsnake, Masticophis s. schotti. Cool stuff for sure!
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World Snake Day is a perfect time to reflect on why snakes are so amazing.
From the Deseret News:
It is incredible that any creature can crawl, swim, dig, climb, capture prey and in some cases, glide through the air, all without the benefit of limbs, fins or wings. Rather than fear them, we should be in awe of their beauty, mystique and diversity.
There are over 3,400 snake species in the world, ranging from the semi-frozen tundra of northern Canada to the steamy jungles of the equator and most of the world’s oceans. As highly effective predators, snakes play a vital role in maintaining the balance of nature in each of these realms.
Snakes have a prehistoric lineage, giving us a glimpse back to a prehistoric time when the earth was ruled by reptiles; modern reptiles are literally the living, breathing cousins of dinosaurs.
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Why stop with one, when a pile of Drymarchs are so much nicer! Check out the great variety of these snakes in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user alanB!
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Twenty-one captive-raised southern river terrapins have been released back into their native habitat in southwest Cambodia.
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When the summer heat index reaches 109ºF it prompts me into immediate action to keep Frankie cool. The temperature is actually only 92º which isn’t really all that hot (having spent years in Phoenix, Arizona) but when the humidity is 65% then it’s hot.
Frankie doesn’t sweat and he is cold-blooded which for anyone deprived of an honest high school biology class that just means that Frankie is the temperature of the area he sits for more than 10 minutes. For anyone desiring a moment of intellectual stimulation, Frankie is poikilothermic: an organism that is incapable of thermal homeostasis.
During these really hot days Frankie, and all other cold blooded animals, will do what is required to be somewhere cooler and more comfortable. The sulcata tortoise will do this:
Frankie, and other sulcata, will dig a huge tunnel into the cool earth. A tunnel up to 12 feet long and deep enough that one could convert it into a cistern when not occupied by said large beast. Never to allow Frankie to dig again I pledged to do one thing: accommodate Frankie’s need for security and comfort in his preferred temperatures zone.
Thus began the ten year quest of the perfect outdoor habitat for Frankie. We’ve done well. We’ve invested much money and effort. Sometimes it works. The extreme temperature is most challenging. Once temperatures begin to rise above 92º F it often required serious Frankie temperature intervention.
In the past Frankie has been happy to sit and soak in water.
For some reason this year Frankie is afraid of his kiddy pool and will not go inside willingly. I am tired of dragging him inside the pool only to get trampled as he runs back out.
As I do every summer, I try to make cool areas cooler by adding shade cloths.
Yesterday I took a hand towel, seriously dampened it (wet would be a disaster) and put it into the freezer for 30 minutes. I then took the frozen towel and placed it over Frankie’s shell. About eight minutes later it softens enough to conform to Frankie’s shell providing him with coolness for an hour or so.
These simple techniques seem to fall short today. I checked in with Frankie and he was just looking miserable. Hot and miserable. So I do the one thing I shouldn’t but those sweet black eyes just looked so miserable. I let Frankie come inside for a cool down.
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One of the species rarely found in my area is the variegated kukri snake, Oligodon taeniolatus. A non-venomous snake also called Russell’s kukri snake.
I have mentioned in one of my previous posts these snakes are named as kukri snakes because of their fangs, which looks similar to a Nepali weapon called a kukri.
In India you can find 15 species of kukri snakes and I would definitely say that this is one of the largest families of snakes in India. Kukri snakes are also found in many other countries including China, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia.
The variegated kukri snake is small in size with a maximum length of 59 centimeters and has slender body with short tail. These snakes are found near human settlements and prefer living on ground. They feed on geckos and even eggs of other animals. This little fellow is oviparous by nature and lays 7-9 eggs around April.
It has been 5 years since I became interested in herpetology, but I never got a chance to rescue a variegated kukri snake. Luckily I have seen this snake a couple of times, thanks to the snake rescuers who showed me this beautiful slithering creature.
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After suffering from habitat loss, the Blanding’s turtle may move from “threatened” to “endangered.”
From the Pioneer Press:
The sand dunes, marshes and backwaters of the upper Mississippi River, including the Weaver Dunes of southeastern Minnesota, hold one of the largest remaining populations of the Blanding’s turtle, which the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources already classifies as threatened. A population in Valentine National Wildlife Refuge in northern Nebraska, where the species is classified as at-risk, is more secure but still vulnerable.
In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental advocacy group, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week began a formal assessment of whether 20 amphibians or reptiles found in various parts of the country, including the Blanding’s turtle, and one plant species should be listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Such listings would give them greater protection.
The center says the fragmented, remnant populations of Blanding’s turtles across their historic range aren’t enough to sustain what’s left of the species.
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Tick Tock. The week passes quickly but today is easier starting with the smile of a Nile Croc in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user CDieter!
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Africa is famous for its lions and other large carnivores, but populations are dwindling and even vanishing all over the continent. A new study published in mongabay.com’s open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science quantifies the disappearance of the lion (Panthera leo), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), and wild dog (Lycaon pictus) from 41 protected areas in West and Central Africa, and finds that together the three species disappeared from 74 percent of the sites they once inhabited.
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The desert sun was dropping quickly behind a sizable butte. Within minutes the searing heat of the day would begin to cool. The beauty of an orange sunset spread quickly over an orange land that would soon give way to dusk. Full darkness would follow soon and we intended to be road-hunting as the changes occurred.
From an afternoon temperature that had neared 100 degrees Fahrenheit, by the time darkness had fallen it was 10 degrees cooler.
We drove slowly in this land of cliffs and canyons. Snake! The first find of the night was a juvenile Great Basin gopher snake.
Snake! Snake number 2 was a very pretty night snake. Then nothing. We drove a few miles up and a few miles back. Again and again. Things had “dried up.” One more run and we’d call it a night. Up to the turning point. Nothing. Back to where the cliffs almost hugged the road and… Snake!
2 feet of sand orange snake was crossing the road slowly. And there was no mistaking it. Rattlesnake. We had found a coveted Hopi rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis nuntius. Closer examination disclosed that this was a tagged (painted rattle segments) study specimen.
Today, we are told, if we were to find that same snake we should simply call it a prairie rattlesnake. Hopi has been “sunk,” merged with the prairie. Subspecies are in disfavor. But guess what: it is still a Hopi to me.
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Trunk-ground anoles removed from their trees find their way back home, but now one knows how they do it.
From the New York times:
Several years ago, Dr. Leal was studying competition between two species. If he removed all of the trunk-ground anoles, he wondered, would the trunk-crown lizards extend their territory farther down the tree? He ran into a problem, however. He would take the trunk-ground lizards far from their home territory to make room for their upstairs neighbors, and then release them. But in a reptilian version of the children’s song, “The Cat Came Back,” the lizards wouldn’t stay away. “Lizards kept showing up in the territory that had just been scoured for lizards,” he said.
Dr. Leal wondered whether new anoles were appearing in empty territory or the old ones were returning. But how could a lizard that had never left home find its way back through 25 yards or so of dense rain forest?
First, he established that they do find their way back. A graduate student would take one, put it in a box, shake it to disorient the anole, walk about 80 yards or more away in a randomly chosen direction, shake the box again and let the lizard out. “The graduate students got lost,” Dr. Leal said, but not the lizards. It took them a few hours or a few days, but about 80 percent of them found their way back.
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A truly prehistoric looking creature, our spotlight turns on the mighty Mata Mata in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Geo!
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India is home to 13 species of wolf snake, so I would like to say that this is one of the largest family of snakes in India. The yellow-spotted wolf snake is a non-venomous snake found in Maharashtra and rarely found in my area. But luckily I found it twice!
Yellow-spotted wolf snakes (Lycodon flavomaculatus) are small compared to the common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus). I have come across 2 to 3 species of wolf snakes and I find yellow-spotted wolf snake the most beautiful because of its color pattern. Just imagine, my friends, how beautiful a snake looks with a dark shiny black color and thin yellow bands on it.
The maximum length of these snakes is 52 centimeters and they are oviparous by nature.
These snakes are often mistaken by people thinking that it’s a common krait (highly venomous) because the color pattern is somewhat the same. The only difference is that the bands of a krait are white in color instead of yellow. It’s similar to the scarlet kingsnake and coral snake: both look the same with a slight difference, but one is venomous and the other is not.
I would like to thank my friend Saleel Gharpure for allowing me to use this photograph.
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Staten Island University Hospital started an anti-venom sharing program to make sure anti-venom can reach people who need it, from zoo keepers to owners of exotic pets.
From NBC New York:
The anti-venom comes from a sharing program launched at Staten Island University Hospital by Dr. Nima Majlesi at Staten Island University Hospital, which unites the zoo, the hospital and toxicologists.
“We understand poisoning, we understand the treatment with anti-venom,” said Majlesi.
The hospital understands the importance of having anti-venom stocked on the shelf, ready to help not just vulnerable zoo keepers but anyone in the tri-state region — like those who keep venomous snakes as pets.
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