Dawg's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
A report from the British Federation of Herpetologists, (reptile folk), asserts that more reptiles than dogs are kept as pets . Which is a bit sad but not really a surprise, as it mirrors the change in lifestyles: The green graph shows the increase in reptile ownership. The red graph shows the increase of Big Fat [...]
Gruts (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Telegraph: Reptiles now more popular pets than dogs Calculations by the British Federation of Herpetologists (BFH) indicate that there are now as many as eight million reptiles and amphibians being kept as pets in the UK. This compares to an estimated dog population of 6.5 million. The growth in reptile numbers is so rapid that within years they will overtake the country's nine million cats to become...
Reflections of a Jazz Theologian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
I recently turned thirty-nine and I'm realizing that I need a herpetologist. Anybody know one?
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
CHENNAI: A pure white frog was sighted in a house at Pulikudivakkam, near Chengalpattu, a fortnight ago. Herpetologist Romulus Whitaker spotted the frog in his garden. The frog’s dark eyes showed that it was not an albino (whose ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
CHENNAI: A pure white frog was sighted in a house at Pulikudivakkam, near Chengalpattu, a fortnight ago. Herpetologist Romulus Whitaker spotted the frog in his garden. The frog’s dark eyes showed that it was not an albino ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
CHENNAI: A pure white frog was sighted in a house at Pulikudivakkam, near Chengalpattu, a fortnight ago. Herpetologist Romulus Whitaker spotted the frog in his garden. The frog’s dark eyes showed that it was not an albino ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Wishbone Interactive is organising a herpetology workshop between October 24 and 26. The workshop will be held on the “banks of a lake, which is 20 minutes from the town of Hunsur. Here, amidst a fruit orchard, we will have all that we need ...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Filed under: Arts and Culture , Burma (Myanmar) , Talking Travel I'm here with Jamie James, a former critic at The New Yorker turned author. His latest book, "The Snake Charmer" , centers around a renegade herpetologist who ultimately dies in the jungles of Burma after getting bitten by a krait, one of the world's deadliest snakes. Jamie traveled to Burma to research the book. He also writes frequently...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
If it wasn't for Ignace Schops, one of the seven winners of the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize , Belgium may have lost much of its natural habitat. A herpetologist, Schops studies amphibians and reptiles and has worked in the field since 1990. With tremendous effort and much help, the Belgium native was able to change his country's approach to conservation. Belgian Beer and a Can-do Attitude One...
A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Kevin has just posted another photo-rich report from his herpetology survey in China. Lots of pictures of Chinese landscape, Chinese people, Chinese food, and yes - cool Chinese animals. Read the comments on this post...
A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
You all loved it when my Mom wrote two 5-part series of guest-posts. You remember the exciting reports from herpetology survey by Kevin when he was in China . My friend Heinrich wrote two guest-posts about sleep . And most recently Anne-Marie wrote a guest-post about daily rhythms in bats . As you all appeared to like these posts, I thought I'd ask another 4-5 bloggers to write something and post...
A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
For those of you who have enjoyed Kevin's herpetology dispatches from China two years ago, you may want to go over to the FieldHerpForum.com and read his reports from this year's trip. Read the comments on this post...
News & Information (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
An animal expert at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has released a CD of the rhythmic stylings of Nebraska’s native frogs. Herpetologist Dennis Ferraro says frog songs are all about……Read more
Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Kendrapara: The skull of an estuarine crocodile, which is the country’s largest and preserved at a miniature museum at Kendrapara district in Orissa continues to attract herpetologists. Shibendu Narayan Bhanjadeo, the scion ...
Box Turtle Bulletin (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Usually when we hear from someone who likes the box turtle, they are someone who likes the community here at our site. But today we heard from quite a different fan of the box turtle: Hi I am the editor of HerpDigest and owner of HerpArts (As in Herpetology the study of reptiles and amphibians) [...]
