South Africa’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) was called to the O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Friday, Jan. 29.Inspectors, doing a routine cargo inspection had noticed a «bad smell,» and found two crates containing 1,600 reptiles and amphibians, most of them endangered, and not all of them alive. Leer más. |





![]() | La Asociación Arbórea se complace en presentarles la publicación «La herpetofauna del Monumento Natural de los Barruecos y su entorno», como resultado divulgativo del proyecto de conservación llevado a cabo en la zona durante este otoño de 2013. Es un folleto muy modesto que pretende dar a conocer un poco más la biodiversidad de Extremadura, respecto a anfibios y reptiles se refiere. Estamos muy contentos con el resultado. Leer más. |
In species of Anolis where females have dewlaps, we know very little about exactly how females use their dewlaps. Leer más.
A new species of karst dwelling Cnemaspis is described from western Sarawak, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Cnemaspis paripari sp. nov. is presumably endemic to the karst outcroppings which extend approximately 4.2 km between Gua Angin and Gua Pari-pari in the district of Bau. Leer más.
While Florida busies itself trying to eradicate non-native pythons in the Everglades, researchers at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine want to help pet pythons and boas through a blood test for inclusion body disease (IBD). Leer más.