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2. Field Notes From Tobago
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After a rather poor two weeks of collecting herps in northern Tobago, we moved to Crown Point in southern Tobago. One of the goals is to produce a list of species that use mangrove forests on Tobago. Yesterday evening was quite productive in mangroves. The list of species includes: the marine toad, Rhinella marina; the…
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Field Notes from Tobago
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Some readers may have noticed an absence of activity on this blog, this is due to my field schedule for the summer and the generally poor internet connections available in Charlottville, Tobago. We have been sitting in a beach house for a week doing daytime hikes, snorkeling, and hanging out with the locals with few…
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An Outing With the TTFNC
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On 16 June we spent an evening looking for herps with a group from the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists Club and the Glasgow Zoological Expedition. The activities were restricted to the Lopinot Valley. We walked the river, searched small streams, and visited an abandoned building foundation that was flooded and contained a huge assemblage…
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Rediscovery of A Thought to be Extinct Toad
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The problem with declaring a species extinct is that they are often not. In 2004 the IUCN listed Adenomus kandianus, a Sri Lankan bufonid, as extinct because it has not been recorded for over 100 years, and field work during the previous decade failed to find the toad. Adenomus kandianus Günther (1872) was previously known…
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The Enigmatic Horned Anole
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The horned anole, Anolis proboscis was originally described in 1956 by Peters and Orces from mid-altitudes on the western slopes of the Andes in Pichincha, Ecuador. Now Losos et al. (2012) have rediscovered the species in the general vicinity of the type locality. These include several females, which lack the conspicuous rostral appendage seen in…
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Proposed Legislation to Control Python bivittatus in Florida
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The following is from the Orlando Sentinel. U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, has introduced the Stopping Non-Native Animals from Killing Endangered Species (SNAKES) Act that sounds crazy but he insists could work: it would send specially trained dogs into the Everglades to sniff out, track down and direct hunters to the Burmese pythons and other…
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MORE RATTLERS BITING; IS VENOM MORE TOXIC?
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The following is from the U-T San Diego News More San Diegans are being bitten by rattlesnakes, and the venom seems to be getting more toxic, health officials say. “While San Diego County is seeing a rise in snake bite cases each year, the more alarming factor is the toxicity of the bite,” Dr. Richard…
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The Weight of Giraffatitan brancai
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Giraffatitan brancai Scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and discovered they are not as heavy as previously thought. University of Manchester biologists used lasers to measure the minimum amount of skin required to wrap around the skeletons of modern-day mammals, including reindeer, polar bears, giraffes and…
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Neotropical Snakes That Span Gaps
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Imantodes cenchoa Arboreal snakes can extend their bodies up to 50% of their length to bridge a gap between branches or perches under laboratory conditions. Morphological adaptations associated with this including lateral compression of the body, elongation of the tail, widening of ventral scales, forward-facing eyes that also can be aimed downward, and reduction in…
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