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On Thursday, November 6, 2008, Dr. Kirt Rusenko, Marine Conservationist, and staff from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton will release two juvenile loggerhead sea turtles raised in captivity into the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian Inlet.
The loggerheads, dubbed Milton and FeeBee, hatched on Boca Raton’s beaches in July 2002 and were [...]
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Without the cage you wouldn’t stand a chance swimming with a massive saltwater crocodile.
But for brave punters who still want to get cosy with a feisty croc, a new Australian tourist attraction is offering the chance for a close encounter in the safety of a clear acrylic box dubbed the ‘cage of death’.
Just 4cm of [...]
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It will be a busy week for the Animal Division at the North Carolina Zoo as 19 new animals representing 11 different species, including one never exhibited at the zoo before, arrive over the next few days.
Among the new critters expected to arrive this week are: three male red wolves from the Henson Robinson Zoo, [...]
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Despite being protected longer than anywhere else on Earth, Yellowstone’s amphibians are declining fast. The culprit, say researchers: climate change.
In 1992 and 1993, researchers in Elizabeth Hadly’s group at Stanford University surveyed amphibians dwelling in ponds left behind by glaciers in northern Yellowstone National Park. Over the last three summers, Hadly’s graduate student [...]
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Two Fort Myers, Flordia men had an unwanted guest–a very angry four foot long iguana that came scratching at their door yesterday.
Jeff Stark and roommate Kenny Barber didn’t want to let him loose into the neighborhood because kids play there.
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For 65 years, Butch has been a fixture in the Monta Vista neighborhood in Cupertino, wandering around Opal Carle’s yard, nibbling on roses and grazing around her feet.
But now, Butch, a threatened desert tortoise, is missing and the family he lived with for two generations is beside itself with worry.
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A Paso Robles-based educational traveling zoo is named as a defendant in a Florida lawsuit with a Hampton Inn employee who claims remnants of its animals — lemurs, a spider monkey, an alligator and a parrot — made her sick while they were staying where she worked.
Arlin Valdez-Castillo blames chronic medical problems on exposure [...]
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Rattlesnakes aren’t to be trifled with, but if you’re trying to collect the sound of every creature in the West that slithers, hops, flies or flops, distance isn’t a luxury you can afford.
“You get yourself in some strange situations,” said Jeff Rice, a soft-spoken University of Utah research librarian who’s trying to create the [...]
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A GIRL in the Northern Territory woke when a snake slithered into her bed, wrapped around her neck and bit her on the arm.
Ashlee Findlay, 16, who is afraid of snakes, spiders and centipedes, spent two hours at a hospital after the attack, the Northern Territory News reported.
The receptionist said she would be haunted [...]
Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets — or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter — because of risks for disease.
That’s according to the nation’s leading pediatricians group in a new report about dangers from exotic animals.
Besides evidence that they can carry dangerous and sometimes potentially deadly germs, [...]
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