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Austin Stevens
Austin Stevens (born 19 May 1950) is a South African-born herpetologist and wildlife photographer best known for hosting a series of snake documentaries. Austin is also the author of 2 books.
Austin Stevens was born in Pretoria, South Africa and became interested in snakes at the age of 12. By the time he finished school, his reptile collection included some of the most exotic and venomous species in the world.
His mother lost a lung in a car accident as a girl, was often ill, and died when Stevens was in his thirties; his father owned a small typewriter repair business. He traces his adventurous streak back to his grandfather from Bristol, England—also named Austin James Stevens—part founder of the AJS Motorbike Corporation, but later took the boat to Africa.
Austin got heavily into motorbikes and motorbike gangs and spent years riding around being a self described "loose cannon". He gave up the world of motorbikes in 1974 after a disastrous near fatal accident during a race. What saved him, he says, was being offered a job at the Transvaal Snake Park, near Johannesburg, which rekindled his passion for wildlife. Austin took up the position as curator of reptiles at the Transvaal Snake Park, where he spent the six years undergoing hands-on training to become a fully qualified herpetologist.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as
Carl von Linné (help·info), was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus (after 1761 Carolus a Linné).
Linnaeus was born in the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. Linnaeus received most of his higher education at Uppsala University, and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published a first edition of his Systema Naturae in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden, where he became professor of botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 60s, he continued to collect and classify animals, plants, and minerals, and published several volumes. At the time of his death, he was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
Darwin published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh; instead, he helped to investigate marine invertebrates. Studies at the University of Cambridge encouraged his passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author.
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Georges Cuvier
Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (sources differ on his name) (August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist. Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. He is well known for establishing extinction as a fact, being the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century, and opposing the evolutionary theories of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. His most famous work is Le Règne Animal (1817; English: The Animal Kingdom). In 1819, he was created a peer for life in honor of his scientific contributions. Thereafter he was known as Baron Cuvier. He died in Paris of cholera.
Cuvier was born in Montbéliard, France (in department of Doubs), where his Protestant ancestors had lived since the time of the Reformation. His father, Jean George Cuvier, was a lieutenant in the Swiss Guards and a bourgeois of the town of Montbéliard; his mother was Anne Clémence Chatel. At the time the town which was annexed to France on 10 October 1793 belonged to the Duchy of Württemberg. His mother, who was much younger than his father, tutored him diligently throughout his early years so that he easily surpassed the other children at school. During his gymnasium years, he had little trouble acquiring Latin and Greek, and was always at the head of his class in mathematics, history, and geography. According to Lee, "The history of mankind was, from the earliest period of his life, a subject of the most indefatigable application; and long lists of sovereigns, princes, and the driest chronological facts, once arranged in his memory, were never forgotten."
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Jakob von Uexküll
Jakob Johann von Uexküll (8 September 1864 - 25 July 1944) was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology, animal behaviour studies, and the cybernetics of life. However, his most notable contribution is the notion of umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok. His works established Biosemiotics as a field of research.
Jakob von Uexküll was born in the Keblas estate, Mihkli, Governorate of Estonia. According to Giorgio Agamben, Uexküll was a baron before his family lost most of their fortune in World War I, although Uexküll managed to retain a villa on Capri where the critic, historian and philosopher Walter Benjamin stayed for some time. Needing to support himself, Uexküll took a job as professor at the University of Hamburg where he founded the Institut für Umweltforschung.
Uexküll was interested in how living beings subjectively perceive their environment(s). Uexküll called these subjective spatio-temporal worlds umwelt (German for environment). These umwelten are distinctive from what Uexküll termed the "umgebung" which would be objective reality should such a reality exist.
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Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn (Russian: Карл Эрнст фон Бэр) also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer (Russian: Карл Макси́мович Бэр, 28 February [O.S. 17 February] 1792 – 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1876) was an Estoniannaturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a founding father of embryology, explorer of European Russia and Scandinavia, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society and the first President of the Russian Entomological Society.
Karl Ernst von Baer was born into a Baltic German noble family in the Piep estate, Wierland, Estonia, as a Knight by birthright. Many of his ancestors had come from Westphalia. He was educated at the Knight and Cathedral School in Reval (Tallinn) and the Imperial University of Dorpat (Tartu), each of which he found lacking in quality education. In 1812, during his tenure at the university, he was sent to Riga to aid the city after Napoleon's armies had laid siege to it. As he attempted to help the sick and wounded, he realized that his education at Dorpat had been inadequate, and upon his graduation he notified his father that he would need to go abroad to "finish" his education. In his autobiography his discontent with his education at Dorpat inspired him to write a lengthy appraisal of education in general, a summary that dominated the content of the book. After leaving Tartu, he continued his education in Berlin, Vienna, and Würzburg where Döllinger introduced him to the new field of embryology.
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Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz FRS (November 7, 1903 in Vienna – February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese, he rediscovered the principle of imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the 19th century) in the behavior of nidifugous birds. In later life his interest shifted to the study of humans in society.
He wrote numerous books, some of which, such as King Solomon's Ring, On Aggression and Man Meets Dog became popular reading. His last work "Here I Am - Where Are You?" is a summary of his life's work and focuses on his famous studies of greylag geese.
In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 in Les Prix Nobel (winners of the prizes are requested to provide such essays), Lorenz credits his career to his parents, who "were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals," and to his childhood encounter with Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which filled him with a great enthusiasm about wild geese.
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Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert, television personality, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted with his wife Terri. Together, the couple also owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Irwin's parents in Beerwah, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of the Queensland state capital city of Brisbane. Irwin died on 4 September 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming an underwater documentary film titled Ocean's Deadliest. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship MY Steve Irwin was named in his honour.
Irwin was born on his mother's birthday to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. He moved with his parents as a child to Queensland in 1970, where he attended Landsborough State School and Caloundra State High School. Irwin described his father as a wildlife expert interested in herpetology, while his mother Lyn was a wildlife rehabilitator. After moving to Queensland, Bob and Lyn Irwin started the small Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where Steve grew up around crocodiles and other reptiles.
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Thomas Say
Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 – October 10, 1834) was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other orders, more than any individual before him. Say was one of the founding fathers of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). The ESA maintains several series of publications and awards that are named after Say.
Thomas Say was born in Philadelphia into a prominent Quaker family. The great-grandson of John Bartram, and the great-nephew of William Bartram. His father, Dr. Benjamin Say was also brother-in-law to another Bartram son, Moses Bartram. The Say family had a house, "The Cliffs" at Gray's Ferry, adjoining the Bartram family farms in Kingessing township, Philadelphia County, and Say often visited the family garden, Bartram's Garden. Say probably learned about natural history from his great uncle William and frequently took butterfly and beetle specimens to him when he was a boy.
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Behind-the-Zoo: Herpetology Part 1
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- Duration: 3:25
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
We asked if you had questions for our herpetologists, and you responded with so many, we had to break up this month's Behind-the-Zoo into two parts. Mark, a ...
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We asked if you had questions for our herpetologists, and you responded with so many, we had to break up this month's Behind-the-Zoo into two parts. Mark, a ...
How to become a herpetologist.
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- Duration: 6:38
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Bowling Green State University Eileen M. Underwood, Biological Sciences, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, 419-372-2531 9/2006: Currently at BGSU there are mu...
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Bowling Green State University Eileen M. Underwood, Biological Sciences, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, 419-372-2531 9/2006: Currently at BGSU there are mu...
- published: 15 Dec 2010
- views: 8603
- author: bellaboy44
Meet Dr. Greg Pauly, Curator of Herpetology
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- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 12 Feb 2013
Dr. Greg Pauly, the Museum's new Curator of Herpetology, is an adventurer and scientist who travels to reptile-and-amphibian-friendly regions and then scruti...
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Dr. Greg Pauly, the Museum's new Curator of Herpetology, is an adventurer and scientist who travels to reptile-and-amphibian-friendly regions and then scruti...
- published: 08 Jun 2012
- views: 835
- author: NHMLA
Huge Copperhead Snake Herpetology (snake grabbin') Human Honey Badger
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- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
Very large Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) near abandoned Depression Era fish camp shack ruins along Trinity River Bottoms. Snake was...
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Very large Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) near abandoned Depression Era fish camp shack ruins along Trinity River Bottoms. Snake was...
- published: 04 Jul 2011
- views: 8249
- author: refidnasb1
Herpetology at the Southwestern Research Station - Portal, Arizona
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- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
This video chronicles some of the Herpetology Field Course offered by the American Museum of Natural History's Southwestern Research Station in the Chiricahu...
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This video chronicles some of the Herpetology Field Course offered by the American Museum of Natural History's Southwestern Research Station in the Chiricahu...
- published: 05 Aug 2011
- views: 568
- author: vadoni1
Stalking the Plumed Serpent: Adventures in Herpetology
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- Duration: 8:05
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Ecologist D. Bruce Means discusses his new book, Staling the Plumed Serpent. Based on his more than 40 years of field research, the author reveals the biolog...
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Ecologist D. Bruce Means discusses his new book, Staling the Plumed Serpent. Based on his more than 40 years of field research, the author reveals the biolog...
- published: 14 Dec 2008
- views: 2658
- author: brucemeans
MyMuseum Center in a Minute - Herpetology Room - Episode XLIX
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- Duration: 2:09
- Updated: 02 Mar 2013
This week we take you behind-the-scenes in the Geier Collections & Research Center of Cincinnati Museum Center to show you the Herpetology Room, a specially ...
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This week we take you behind-the-scenes in the Geier Collections & Research Center of Cincinnati Museum Center to show you the Herpetology Room, a specially ...
- published: 24 Mar 2010
- views: 806
- author: museumcenter11
Chicago Herpetological Society Reptile Show on TAPED WITH... RABBI DOUG
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- Duration: 29:02
- Updated: 28 Apr 2012
Josh Chernoff and John Archer of the Chicago Herpetological Society join Rabbi Doug along with Snakes, Turtles, Frogs and more on this March 2009 episode of ...
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Josh Chernoff and John Archer of the Chicago Herpetological Society join Rabbi Doug along with Snakes, Turtles, Frogs and more on this March 2009 episode of ...
- published: 01 May 2009
- views: 1838
- author: Rabbi Doug
Herpetology with Dennis Ferraro (NRES 474 at UNL)
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 27 Feb 2013
Dennis Ferraro takes his Herpetology class (NRES 474/874) on a field trip to southeastern Nebraska where they find many examples of native snakes, reptiles a...
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Dennis Ferraro takes his Herpetology class (NRES 474/874) on a field trip to southeastern Nebraska where they find many examples of native snakes, reptiles a...
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 447
- author: Mark Mesarch
Neotropical Herpetology Course 2008
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- Duration: 1:05
- Updated: 23 May 2012
Interview to the Herpetology course students.
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Interview to the Herpetology course students.
- published: 31 May 2008
- views: 570
- author: Organization for Tropical Studies
23. Herpetology
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- Duration: 6:57
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Herpetology.
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SnakeChaarmer Herpetological - NEW Snake Room Tour
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- Duration: 5:40
- Updated: 23 Feb 2013
It's been a very long time since I did a new snake room tour, so after moving and all I decided to put up a new one as my collection has grown significantly ...
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It's been a very long time since I did a new snake room tour, so after moving and all I decided to put up a new one as my collection has grown significantly ...
- published: 25 Aug 2010
- views: 2990
- author: ceruleanbtrfly
WGFD Herpetology
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Join a class from Casper College as they spend the day at the Glendo wetlands with Wyoming Game and Fish herpetologist Charlotte Snoberger. From trapping nat...
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Join a class from Casper College as they spend the day at the Glendo wetlands with Wyoming Game and Fish herpetologist Charlotte Snoberger. From trapping nat...
- published: 25 Sep 2012
- views: 447
- author: wygameandfish
Behind-the-Zoo: Herpetology Part 2
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- Duration: 5:34
- Updated: 28 Aug 2012
We asked if you had questions for our herpetologists, and you responded with so many, we had to break up this month's Behind-the-Zoo into two parts. Mark, a ...
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We asked if you had questions for our herpetologists, and you responded with so many, we had to break up this month's Behind-the-Zoo into two parts. Mark, a ...
- published: 02 May 2012
- views: 222
- author: Jacksonville Zoo
Herpetology..(School project)
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- Duration: 5:50
- Updated: 05 Sep 2012
READ***school project i did on herpetology..i do not own the footage on this project..or music..
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READ***school project i did on herpetology..i do not own the footage on this project..or music..
- published: 13 Dec 2010
- views: 356
- author: PsychosGeckos
Studying at the Herpetology Lab at Umass (kinda)
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
The process of getting to know the animals at Umass' Herpetology Lab Background Music: Strange and Beautiful- Aqualung.
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The process of getting to know the animals at Umass' Herpetology Lab Background Music: Strange and Beautiful- Aqualung.
- published: 13 Apr 2011
- views: 167
- author: arjuncollins
Herpetology Show
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- Duration: 27:13
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
I check out a reptile show.
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2012+2013 Australian Girls of Herpetology Calendar - Behind The Scenes
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- Duration: 1:26
- Updated: 26 Oct 2012
The inaugural 2012 Australian Girls of Herpetology calendar is a celebration of women in the Australian herpetological community both as keepers and those wh...
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The inaugural 2012 Australian Girls of Herpetology calendar is a celebration of women in the Australian herpetological community both as keepers and those wh...
- published: 01 Oct 2011
- views: 436
- author: aghcalendar
Magnificent Snakes (Interview with Herpetologist from S.C.) Bigfoot
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- Duration: 27:26
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Michael Merchant travels to S.C. and hangs out with some snake handlers and gets first hand information on what NOT to do with deal with deadly serpents. htt...
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Michael Merchant travels to S.C. and hangs out with some snake handlers and gets first hand information on what NOT to do with deal with deadly serpents. htt...
- published: 25 May 2012
- views: 1133
- author: SnowWalkerPrime
Devotion to herpetology
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- Duration: 0:56
- Updated: 18 Apr 2012
Ernest A. Liner compiled a giant cross-index to a massive series on reptilian biology. The 1400-page book took Liner 17 years to complete.
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Ernest A. Liner compiled a giant cross-index to a massive series on reptilian biology. The 1400-page book took Liner 17 years to complete.
- published: 02 Mar 2010
- views: 810
- author: HoumaToday
Naturalist Blog: Birds, Arthropods and Herpetology
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- Duration: 1:28
- Updated: 24 Oct 2012
PA Master Naturalist field trip exploring the diverse organisms living right in our own backyard.
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PA Master Naturalist field trip exploring the diverse organisms living right in our own backyard.
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 72
- author: roxbrofilms
Crocodile Feeding @ The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology (MCBT)
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- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 02 Dec 2012
The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology (MCBT) is a reptile zoo and herpetology research station, located 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of t...
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The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology (MCBT) is a reptile zoo and herpetology research station, located 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of t...
- published: 02 Dec 2012
- views: 35
- author: Phoeon Tan
Ask Lovecraft - Amateur Herpetology
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- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 11 Feb 2013
In which we address certain claims.
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07 Mar 2013
Posted. March 7, 2013. North Korea threatened a preemptive nuclear attack against the United States ahead of an upcoming vote on additional UN sanctions against Pyongyang. The country also accused the United States of performing military drills in South Korea as a launching pad for nuclear war. North Korea adds that it plans to scrap the armistice that ended Korean War hostilities ... The statement read. ... Category. Asia. Tags ... Posted ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
Manila. Members of a major Philippine Muslim rebel force who were meant to have disarmed in the 1990s as part of a peace pact are involved in deadly battles in Malaysia, the group’s leader said on Tuesday. Nur Misuari, who founded the Moro National Liberation Front in the late 1960s, confirmed “freedom fighters” from his group were part of the militia sent by a self-proclaimed sultan to claim the Malaysian state of Sabah....(size: 2.6Kb)
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07 Mar 2013
9.58 PM. The U.N. is demanding the immediate release of 21 peacekeepers seized by members of the Syrian opposition in the disputed Golan Heights area between Syria and Israel. Here's a statement from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. ... "The Secretary-General reminds all actors in Syria that UNDOF is mandated to monitor the Disengagement of Forces Agreement between Israel and Syria ... The U.N ... A U.N ... Here's more from The New York Times. ... U.N ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
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06 Mar 2013
North Korea has threatened to cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean War, citing a US-led push for punishing UN sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing US-South Korean joint military drills. The threat came on Tuesday as the United States, with Chinese backing, introduced a draft UN resolution to punish North Korea for its nuclear test on February 12 ... 415 Source.. Agencies. Share. Send Feedback ... China ... News ... ....(size: 7.2Kb)
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06 Mar 2013
6 March 2013 –. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged an end to violence and encouraged dialogue among all parties to peacefully resolve the situation in Sabah, Malaysia ... Mr ... News Tracker. past stories on this issue ... Source....(size: 1.3Kb)
The Examiner
01 Mar 2013
Natural Bridge State Resort Park, near Slade, will begin a new adventure featuring guided hikes called Natural Bridge Trek Series. The first hike is scheduled for Saturday, March 16, 2013. The series will consist of five hikes; the first three hikes are each four miles in length, the last two are five miles and eight miles respectively ... Location. Natural Bridge State Resort Park ... Natural Bridge will host herpetology weekend on May 11-12 ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
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27 Feb 2013
(Source. City of Clearwater, FL) 2/27/2013 12.50.27 PM. Contact. Cliff Norris, 793-2976. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Feb. 27, 2013. Contact. Cliff Norris. (727) 793-2976. March Events Scheduled at Moccasin Lake Nature Park. CLEARWATER, Fla. - The following March events are scheduled at Moccasin Lake Nature Park, 2750 Park Trail Lane. Call (727) 793-2976 for more information. Bird Walk. Saturday, March 2, 8 a.m ... to noon ... Suncoast Herpetological Society....(size: 2.5Kb)
The Dallas Morning News
21 Feb 2013
DALLAS CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE’S FORM FOLLOWS FITNESS 5K ... Pei’s Meyerson Symphony Center ... Feb. 23 beginning at 9 a.m. (with a 1K starting at 9.30 a.m.) ... 214-339-7867 ... Snakes alive! You’ll find hundreds of dealers from across the country offering ordinary and rare “herps” (from herpetology, for those new to reptiles and amphibians) from snakes to frogs, turtles to geckos at this captive-bred-only reptile show in Arlington ... Feb ... to 4 p.m ... Feb....(size: 7.9Kb)
noodls
19 Feb 2013
(Source. Long Island University) LIU Post to Offer Paid Research Internships with Leading Scientists this Summer. Contact ... Karen Melkonian, Dr ... Hatch, examined the effect of toe-clipping (a method for marking small animals in studies) on the growth, stress, and survival of frogs and toads. She will present her results at the meetings of the American Society of Icthyology and Herpetology in Albuquerque, NM, July 12-15, 2013 ... (noodl....(size: 3.3Kb)
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14 Feb 2013
(Source. University College Falmouth). The winners of The Nactus Award, an annual herpetological photography competition, were recently announced, with Falmouth University student Clare Greenwood chosen as the overall winner ... To see more of Clare's work visit her website ... (noodl....(size: 1.2Kb)
Daily Press
14 Feb 2013
In addition to the extra-crawly guests, including the Asian cobra and Waxing Monkey tree frogs, experts in local reptile life will share their knowledge of herpetology and all things creepy ... all three days ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
noodls
13 Feb 2013
(Source. City of Virginia Beach, VA). (Virginia Aquarium, VA) - Sea turtles are among the most endearing marine animals of the sea. Maybe it's their graceful moves in spite of their hard shell, and perhaps it is because they work so hard at survival ... Burchfield Ph.D., who was a key leader in the Kemp's ridley sea turtle return from the brink of extinction ... Burchfield began his career in herpetology at the Columbus Zoo ... from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m....(size: 3.0Kb)
Review Journal
12 Feb 2013
FREE TAX ASSISTANCE TO BE OFFERED. Volunteers from the AARP and IRS are set to offer residents free assistance with personal income tax form preparation and electronic filing at city of Las Vegas community and senior centers through April. Income restrictions apply to qualify for assistance ... The sites are. ... The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is scheduled to host its monthly Herpetological Society meeting beginning at 7 p.m ... ....(size: 4.3Kb)
The Daily Telegraph Australia
11 Feb 2013
Stuff
10 Feb 2013
The discovery of human remains in cliff tops south of New Plymouth's Back Beach has lead to a new path being established through the area ... "We have discussed this new public route with iwi and the Taranaki Herpetological Society, and we're all happy with it," he said ... Ad Feedback. - © Fairfax NZ News. ....(size: 1.6Kb)
Deccan Chronicle
10 Feb 2013
Chennai ... The villagers claimed that there were more than 100 snakes released into Palar river basin and suspect that the miscreant had come in a Pondicherry-registered bolero car ... When contacted Tiruporur forest ranger Sivaram confirmed the incident ... The rescued reptiles have been sent to for herpetology at the Madras Crocodile bank at ECR ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
PhysOrg
07 Feb 2013
Another species that provokes amazement is the bizarre soft-shell turtle Pelochelys cantorii ... Credit. Rafe M ... The herpetological diversity of the island may grow to as many as 90-100 (70-80% endemic) amphibian species and as many as 150-160 reptiles with the contributions of ongoing biodiversity studies in the near future ... This is a view from the beautiful Luzon Island. Credit ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)
Vanity Fair
06 Feb 2013
“I’ve been in the closet, interested in turtles all my life,” Eric Goode said at the first-ever Turtle Conservancy ball on Tuesday. The benefit was held at New York’s Bowery Hotel, which Goode owns. “My mother gave me a turtle, and I didn’t grow out of it like most well-adjusted kids ... Goode invited old friends to the gala, which had a huge turnout ... for the organization ... “I’ve known about Eric’s herpetology for years,” Sachs told VF Daily....(size: 3.9Kb)
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Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Batrachology is a further subdiscipline of herpetology concerned with the study of amphibians alone.
Herpetology is concerned with poikilothermic, ectothermic tetrapods. Under this definition "herps" (or sometimes "herptiles" or "herpetofauna") exclude fish, but it is not uncommon for herpetological and ichthyological scientific societies to "team up", publishing joint journals and holding conferences in order to foster the exchange of ideas between the fields. One of the most prestigious organizations, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, is an example of this. Many herpetological societies exist today, having been formed to promote interest in reptiles and amphibians both captive and wild.
Herpetology offers benefits to humanity in the study of the role of amphibians and reptiles in global ecology, especially because amphibians are often very sensitive to environmental changes, offering a visible warning to humans that significant changes are taking place. Some toxins and venoms produced by reptiles and amphibians are useful in human medicine. Currently, some snake venom has been used to create anti-coagulants that work to treat stroke victims and heart attack cases.
The word "herpetology" is from Greek: ἑρπετόν, herpeton, "creeping animal" and -λογία, -logia. People with an avid interest in herpetology and who keep different reptiles or amphibians often refer to themselves as "herpers".[1]
"Herp" is a vernacular term for reptiles and amphibians. It is derived from the old term "herpetile", with roots back to Linnaeus' classification of animals, in which he grouped reptiles and amphibians together in the same class. There are over 6700 species of amphibians[2] and over 9000 species of reptiles.[3] In spite of its modern taxonomic irrelevance, the term has persisted, particularly in the names of herpetology, the scientific study of reptiles and amphibians, and herpetoculture, the captive care and breeding of reptiles and amphibians.
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There are many careers in the field of herpetology. These include, but are not limited to, field research, public and private breeding, zoological staff or curating, museum staff or curating and college teaching.
Those wishing to pursue a career in herpetology must have a strong science and math background. Few universities offer this program, and thus it is a highly competitive field.
In modern academic science, it is rare for individuals to consider themselves a herpetologist first and foremost. Most individuals focus on a particular field such as ecology, evolution, taxonomy, physiology, or molecular biology, and within that field ask questions pertaining to or best answered by examining reptiles and amphibians. For example, an evolutionary biologist who is also a herpetologist may choose to work on how warning coloration evolved in coral snakes.
Many herpetologists write both scientifically and popularly. Modern herpetological writers of note include Mark O'Shea and Philip Purser. Modern herpetological showmen of note include Steve Irwin, popularly known as the "Crocodile Hunter", and the star Austin Stevens, popularly known as 'AustinSnakeman', famous for TV series Austin Stevens: Snakemaster.
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Further reading[link]
- Kraig Adler (1989) Contributions to the History of Herpetology, Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles.
External links[link]
- Field Herpetology Guide
- American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists
- Herpetological Conservation and Biology
- Societas Europaea Herpetologica Distribution Maps for European Reptiles and Amphibians
- Center for North American Herpetology over 500 species of reptiles and amphibians
- European Field Herping Community
- New Zealand Herpetology
- Bibliomania
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Rabbi Doug is the host of the "TAPED WITH... RABBI DOUG" television show.[1] It is locally produced in Chicago, Illinois (the mid-western United States). The show airs weekly on TV (with public funding) and airs on YouTube and on the TV show's website.
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Rabbi Doug is rabbi of a congregation in Chicago, a chaplain, and he is also a school teacher. He is a frequent guest on a number of other television & radio shows, and Rabbi Doug writes a Torah column in the Chicago Jewish News. His TV show has been airing since 1996.
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- ^ Cambridge, Vibert C. (2005-01-15). Immigration, diversity, and broadcasting in the United States, 1990-2001. Ohio University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-89680-236-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=lIeFAAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
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