We’ve been tracking a subset of the painted turtles at Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo all summer. Now that the season is drawing to a close, I’d like to show you two examples of what the data look like from this project. In the process, you’ll get to see what these turtles did at Nature Boardwalk over “summer vacation!” (As you’ll see, they did a bit of traveling.). Leer más.

As anyone who’s ever seen film footage of newly hatched leatherback turtles can attest, it’s hard to imaging the journey in store for these clumsy little creatures: as adults, they’ll complete numerous roundtrip treks between West Africa and the east coast of South America–over 10,000 miles of swimming. Leer más.

Hasta 1959, los sapos de espuelas marroquíes se consideraron pertenencientes a la especie Pelobates cultripes (Cuvier, 1829). Sin embargo en ese año se separaron como especie distinta basándose en criterios morfológicos (Pasteur & Bons en Bons & Geniez, 1996), lo que fué confirmado posteriormente con análisis electroforéticos e inmunológicos (Busack et al., 1985). Leer más.

A rare species of spotted pond turtle, which was rescued a few days ago, got a new lease of life after it was treated and released in Torani Beel in Sivasagar district last evening. Leer más.

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