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Como ya comenté en este blog, desde hace un par de años estamos siguiendo la población de salamandras (Salamandra salamandra) que viven durante todo el año en una pequeña parcela adyacente al edificio de la facultad de Biología. Lo que empezamos por curiosidad se está convirtiéndo en un estudio a largo plazo en el que ya hemos controlado a mas de 200 ejemplares con marcas PIT,  en una parcela de tan sólo 300 metros cuadrados. Poco a poco empezamos a conocerlas, aunque como suele ocurrir cuando nos dedicamos a la investigación, por cada pregunta que respondemos, nos surgirán dos o tres mas.

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The worst nightmare of ophidiophobes, people with a phobia of snakes, may have just been realized. Scientists have captured footage of «flying» snakes, explaining how five related snake species stay airborne for up to 79 feet.

The acrobatic arboreal snakes, all in the genus Chrysopelea, use what’s known as gliding flight to sail from tree to tree in their Southeast and South Asia habitats.

The new research, presented today at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Long Beach, explains how the snakes accomplish their seemingly improbable feat.

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Brian Horne and Rick Hudson represented the TSA recently at a South American turtle Red-listing workshop in Brazil, joining scientists and conservationists gathered to evaluate the conservation status of the tortoises and freshwater turtles of South America for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.  Spending at least ten days on a boat traveling down the Amazon River with the South American contingent, they used the opportunity to become familiar with the players in turtle conservation in those countries, and to discuss needs and priority areas.

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