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Snakes are found in almost every country in the world, but there are a few places without wild1 snakes. Snake-free land generally falls into two categories: remote islands, mostly formed by volcanism or as atolls, that have never been part of a continental land mass and/or have been isolated from continents for a long time, and continental areas that are or were covered by ice within the last 26,000 years and haven’t been recolonized since (for example, there are snake fossils from northern Canada, where no snakes live now, from a time when it was much warmer). Leer más.

Llega el otoño, y las temperaturas en Rascafría, donde se encuentra el Centro de Cría en Cautividad de Anfibios Amenazados de la Sierra de Guadarrama, comienzan a descender considerablemente. Por eso, esta semana hemos recogido todos los ejemplares que han pasado el verano en la instalación exterior de cría para realojarlos en la sala de adultos, a una temperatura de 21º C, durante el invierno. Leer más.