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• Garter Snakes in Captivity – Diet and Species Accounts – Part 4

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  Please see Parts I, II and III of this article for more on garter snake care. DietIn the wild, most garter snakes are opportunistic feeders…even road-killed frogs are taken on occasion (please see Part I).While most mammal-feeding snakes thrive on rodents alone, in my experience ...
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• A Frog’s Dream…Save Our Home

  
  Frogs Are Green — Authority: 408
  As the year ends, and before we take a short break for the holidays, we’d like to show you the new poster we’ve created to promote our cause. Proceeds from the sale of the poster will go toward amphibian conservation organizations and toward developing free and inexpensive educational materials for kids. ...
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• Research News – After Feeding, Snakes Remodel their Gut and Produce New Cells

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  Like most reptile keepers, I have often marveled at the efficiency of snake digestive systems.  I attributed their abilities to break down bone to “powerful digestive enzymes”, but recent research has shown that, at least for Burmese Pythons (Python molurus), a far more complex and ...
  5 days ago

• Breeding the Tropical Girdled Lizard or Forest Armadillo Lizard – Part 2

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here. In Part I of this article we discussed the care of the Tropical Girdled Lizard (Cordylus tropidosternum), one of the most commonly available of the 37 interesting species in the genus Cordylus (among the Girdled Lizard’s relatives is the much sought-after Armadillo Lizard, C. ...
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• DISNEY’S ‘PRINCESS’ TAKES BOX OFFICE CROWN: Film hops to $25 million

  
  Entertainment News, Sports News, Celebrity News, African American Culture & Community News and Events - Bilal Ali Productions — Authority: 152
  Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon and Sandra Bullock were forced to bow down this weekend for Disney’s first African American princess. “The Princess and the Frog” which expanded nationwide Friday, earned $25 million to take over the top box office spot from Bullock’s “The Blind Side,” which slipped to ...
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• Herp Nutrition – Calcium Sprays and Tips for Special Situations – Part 1

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  Coating feeder insects with calcium and vitamin supplements is a time-tested method of adding important nutrients to reptile and amphibian diets.  However, shy and nocturnal species that do not eat soon after the insects are released into their terrariums may get little benefit from ...
  1 week ago

• Cuban treefrog, 09 December 2009

  
  Floridana Alaskiana v2.5 — Authority: 106
  Cuban treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis)   Residential Mt. Dora, Florida; 09 December 2009 Were in Florida! As I type this, on the back patio of my parents home in Mt. Dora, weve been in Florida for one day, twelve hours, and four minutes. I cant describe how good it feels to be back for the break. The ...
  1 week ago

• Snake and Spider Fears and Phobias – Instinctive or Learned

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  A great many people are fearful of snakes and spiders, often to a seemingly unreasonable degree, and without any prior negative experiences.  Researchers have long sought to discover if people possess an inborn, instinctual aversion to these creatures, or if learning is involved.Living ...
  1 week ago

• A Most Unusual Lizard – the Crocodile, Armored or Casque-headed Skink

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  With over 1,200 species, the skink family (Scincidae) is the lizard world’s largest, and in it we find some very unusual creatures.  Yet one, the Crocodile Skink (Tribolonotus gracilis), stands out as being particularly unique even in this odd assemblage of reptiles.  Originally ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Desert Tortoise – Little Known Facts and Conservation Efforts

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  The Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizi), was, in the 1960’s, a pet trade staple.  A lack of information as to its proper care and massive habitat loss has today reduced populations to alarmingly low levels.  The species is now protected, and a great deal of research has gone into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Garter Snakes, Part 3 – Unique Temperature and Light Concerns

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  Please see Parts I and II of this article for additional information on garter snake husbandry and natural history.  Today I’ll cover some often over-looked aspects of garter snake care that may help to explain why these relatively hardy snakes, and the related ribbon and water ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three new caecilian species found in India

  
  Frog Matters — Authority: 99
  Three new caecilians in the Ichthyophis genus were recently discovered in north-east Indoa. Photo courtesy of The Hindi Newspaper. In October, a team of researchers led by Associate Professor S.D. Biju from Delhi University, discovered three new caecilian species in Manipur and Nagaland in north-east India. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• WARNING!!! Senate Action on December 3rd May Ban Ownership of All Pythons

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  Once again we need to ask your help in opposing a poorly-researched effort to limit the responsible ownership of any and all pythons, including harmless species and those which have benefitted from the captive breeding efforts of hobbyists. Senate Bill 373, which is up for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Live Plants in Amphibian Terrariums – Pesticide Concerns

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  Live plants are very useful in creating amphibian terrariums that are both attractive to the eye and beneficial for the animals housed therein.  However, amphibian skin is permeable to substances as small as oxygen molecules.  Several readers have recently questioned whether ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lungless caecilian found in Guyana

  
  Frog Matters — Authority: 99
  Photographs courtesy Marvalee Wake, University of California, Berkeley, via Proceedings of the Royal Society B A second, lungless caecilian species has recently been discovered in Guyana. This new species, Caecilita iwokramae , is very different to the other known lungless caecilian species, Typhlonectes eiselti , ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Mantellas – Madagascar’s Answer to the Dendrobatids (Poison Frogs)

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  Madagascar’s Mantellas or Golden Frogs (Family Mantellidae) are, in many ways, the ecological equivalents of Latin America’s Poison Frogs (Family Dendrobatidae), and illustrate nicely the concept of convergent evolution – unrelated animals from different parts of the world that ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Extreme” Fungus Found – A Clue to World Frog Declines

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 150
  The Growling Grass Frog ( Litoria raniformis ) is listed as endangered because of an estimated 50% population decline over the past 10 years. In the 1980’s, amphibian researchers conducting species inventories in Australia, began noticing dramatic (up to 50%) declines in the populations of certain frogs. Soon, other ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Black Pine Snake – the Rarest Species in a Well-known Group

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  The pine, bull and gopher snakes are a complex of 15 species that range from southern Canada through the United States and Mexico to Guatemala.  Large (to 8 feet), powerful constrictors, most species are well-studied and long-established in captivity.  The Black Pine Snake (Pituophis ...
  3 weeks ago

• Many Thanks, and a Red-Eyed Tree Frog for You!

  
  Frogs Are Green — Authority: 408
  We have a lot to be grateful for at FROGS ARE GREEN . We’ve received over 10,000 visitors since we started the blog back in May. We are so grateful for your comments and for your participation in our blog. As a token of our thanks, Susan designed a poster of our mascot, the Red-Eyed Tree Frog, that you can ...
  3 weeks ago

• New aquatic fungus pushing amphibians on road to extinction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  London, November 24 (ANI): Reports indicate that a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many amphibians like frogs and toads extinct.According to a report in Microbiology Today, the fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), was found to be associated with waves of amphibian extinctions in Central America and ...
  4 weeks ago

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