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Animals News tagged with reptiles

Increase in Reptile Smuggling Worries Wildlife Officials
Animals  (tags: animals, lizards, smuggling, reptiles, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 24 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
An alarming increase in the smuggling of reptiles such as monitor lizards, snakes and turtles in the Tarai belt of Uttar Pradesh bordering Nepal has prompted the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau to issue an alert.
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Mosquito Evolution Spells Trouble for Galapagos Wildlife
Animals  (tags: animals, Galapagos, mosquitoes, reptiles, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 32 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Galapagos giant tortoise and other iconic wildlife species are facing a new threat from disease, as some of the islands' mosquitoes develop a taste for reptile blood.
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35 Reptiles Seized on Flight in Western Australia
Animals  (tags: animals, reptiles, seized, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 61 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
An illegal consignment of 34 reptiles has been intercepted by Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) officers at Perth Airport, the reptiles are estimated to be worth between $35,000 and $40,000 on the black market.
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Agents Seize Protected Reptiles Smuggled Under Garlic
Animals  (tags: animals, smuggling, seized, reptiles, snakes, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 69 days ago - earthtimes.org
Officers from Malaysia's Wildlife Department seized more than 800 turtles and 160 protected snakes from being smuggled into a neighboring country, news report said Sunday. Northern Perlis state Wildlife Department spokesperson Masnim Abdullah said
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New Parasite Found In Black Green Lizards In Spain, Portugal
Animals  (tags: animals, reptiles, lizards, parasite, diseases, research, study, risks, protection )

Dee
- 80 days ago - sciencedaily.com
An international team of scientists has discovered a new acarine species (Ophionyssus schreibericolus) that lives off black green lizards from the Iberian Peninsula.
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'Stock-Take' of Garden Creatures
Animals  (tags: stock take, reptiles, amphibians, garden, UK, volunteers, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 94 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Whether it is frogs in your ferns, or toads in your tulips, a coalition of wildlife charities is asking for volunteers to carry out a national "stock-take" of the reptiles and amphibians in the UK's gardens.
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Swamp Combed After Fatal Croc Attack
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, reptiles, crocodiles, fatal attack, swamp, habitat, humans, death )

Jacquelin
- 111 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
LAMBELLS LAGOON - Heavily armed police are scouring the swamp where they found a pair of board shorts belonging to an 11-year-old girl believed to have been taken by a crocodile. Up to 10 officers were yesterday wading through chest-deep water at Lambe
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Croc Sighting Hampers Search for Girl
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, reptiles, crocodile, missing girl, habitat, humans )

Jacquelin
- 112 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
A CROCODILE sighting and heavy rain have hampered a search for a girl last seen swimming in Lambells Lagoon today. The girl, aged about 12 years, was swimming with three other children about 5.30pm (CST) when she went underwater and did not resurface.
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Cold Comfort for Reptiles in Warmer World
Animals  (tags: wildlife, wild animals, reptiles, cold blooded, regulating body temp, climate change, endangered, extinction, environment, habitat, humans, suffering, protection )

Jacquelin
- 137 days ago - abc.net.au
Commonly known as being cold-blooded and in need of sunshine, the world's fish and reptiles may be struggling to keep cool in the future. The finding raises concerns about how ectotherms - animals that regulate their body heat using air temperature - w
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Henry the Reptile Becomes a Dad at 111 Years Old
Animals  (tags: Tuatara, reptiles, reproduction, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals )

Cher
- 159 days ago - earthtimes.org
Henry, a tuatara reptile said to be 111 years old and a relic of the dinosaur age, has become a father for the first time, a newspaper reported Monday. Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) usually become sexually mature at the age of about 20, but Henry,
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New Reptiles Found in Tanzania
Animals  (tags: tanzania, wildlife, reptiles, discovery, reviously unknown, endangered, protection )

Jacquelin
- 178 days ago - news24.com
London - Seventeen previously unknown species of reptiles and amphibians have been found in the threatened rainforests of eastern Tanzania, Italian and Tanzanian scientists reported on Monday. The haul of new species, which include chameleons, tree fr
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American Alligator Found in Australia Mystifies Experts
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, reptiles, american alligator )

Jacquelin
- 184 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Wildlife officials in Australia are investigating how the alligator was found wandering around a campsite in Pambula, New South Wales. Police assumed they had a crocodile, a native of Australia's tropical north, when holiday-goers caught the reptile i
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Man Finds Brown Tree Snake Living in His Printer
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, reptiles, brown tree snake, printer, habitat, humans )

Jacquelin
- 213 days ago - news.com.au
SNAKES often turn up in strange places but one brown tree snake has joined the digital age. It has set up home in a printer of New South Wales couple Denis and Marie Matthews, the Gold Coast Bulletin reports. Marie is the publicity officer for the Fri
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Man Threatened Woman With Snake in Road Rage Incident
Animals  (tags: ife, reptiles, snakes, road rage threat, humans )

Jacquelin
- 214 days ago - news.com.au
A MAN brandished a snake at a terrified woman driver and her children, claiming it was a death adder and she was going to die, a court has been told. Jeffrey Leon O'Keefe, a 22-year-old stonemason, pleaded guilty in Townsville Magistrates Court to a c
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14 Snakes Found in Woman's Bedroom in the Northern Territory
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, reptiles, snakes, carpet pyhtons, humans, habitat )

Jacquelin
- 216 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
IT WOULD be enough to put phobia sufferers in their grave - 14 carpet pythons slithering around in your bedroom. Northern Territorian Esther Honegger was "horrified" when she found the baby snakes in her Fannie Bay home. "I thought 'Oh my God, how
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