Reptile Pet

snake fish

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anaconda reptil

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"Exotic pet" snow corn baby

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picture of a cobra

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Scientific name: Ophiophagus hannah
-A large poisonous snakes in the world, has a length of up to 5.7 m

Baby "King Snake" pictures

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Information about: Kingsnake ( click her )

Photo "tiny snake"

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This is a very small snake, you can view images , Snakes are not venomous , The main food is small insects . This kind of snakes live in dense grass

When the large snakes in length from 3 to 4 m

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Photos Pet "Pueblan milk snake"

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Turtle as pet

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Photos for the turtles to eat

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Cute puppies pictures

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Manning A Bird

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When you attend a World Bird Sanctuary Program, you may have noticed how well all the birds sit on the trainer’s glove. They seem unfazed by the small children who run up to them and by the adults who crowd around for pictures. How do birds become such great “Education Ambassadors?”

Skinner, one of our older, more experienced birds, entertaining a school group of about 200 children

Most birds WBS utilizes for education are hatched and raised here, and this is a big advantage for getting them ready for life as ambassadors for us. Almost all birds do not hatch naturally well-mannered on the glove. In fact, some of the World Bird Sanctuary birds were hatched in the wild and cannot be released again due to injury. It takes more patience with wild birds, and they learn to interact with humans through a training process called “manning.”

When a wild bird first arrives at WBS, they don’t know how to interact with humans at all. In fact, they see humans as something that can cause them harm. In the training process called manning, a wild bird learns how to stand on the trainer’s glove and how to react to the common situations they might encounter while at WBS or at a program. First, the bird receives their equipment: anklets, jesses, swivel, and leash. The anklets and jesses are just light strips of soft leather that go loosely around the bird’s ankles. The swivel allows the leash to attach to the jesses, and keeps the jesses and leash from becoming tangled. The leash keeps the bird safe from accidental release.

Our new young Turkey Vulture, Kinsey, sporting his new equipment and learning to stand on the glove

A large portion of the manning process involves sitting with the bird on the glove for a long time. Even before the bird is placed on the glove, the bird becomes accustomed to having a trainer close to it through positive reinforcement. As the trainer works his/her way closer and closer to the bird, the bird is rewarded with food. Through this technique the bird learns that the trainer is safe, and the bird becomes comfortable around him/her.

Next, the bird slowly learns that the trainer’s glove is a steady, safe, comfortable perch, and because of the positive reinforcement work done beforehand, the bird learns that the human under the glove will not hurt them. When the bird finally becomes comfortable standing on the glove, the trainer can try slowly walking around. This helps the trainer learn how to keep the bird perfectly balanced on the glove, which helps in the manning process, and introduces the bird to the things they might see in their everyday lives at WBS or at a program.

One of our veteran performers being walked up and down stairs and through the crowd--possible only because he has learned to trust his handlers.

As you can see, the manning process requires patience, time, positive reinforcement and good handling techniques. As a result, we are rewarded with a calm bird ready for a life as an education ambassador.

Submitted by Leah Sainz, World Bird Sanctuary Naturalists

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Have you been thinking about getting a snake for a pet?

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If so you may want to read the following article by Naturalist Sara Oliver to decide if you are really committed to fulfilling all of the requirements necessary to maintaining a healthy and happy reptile.

Monty, our Ball Python

Ball Pythons, also called Royal Pythons, are considered one of the best snakes to have for a pet, especially if your son or daughter has been begging you for a pet snake. In the wild, they are found in Central and Western Africa and will frequent both the ground and trees, and are most active around dusk and dawn. They usually live between 20 and 30 years.

Ball Pythons make a good choice particularly because of their docile nature and small size. They generally do not grow longer than 3 or 4 feet. When choosing a Ball Python, find one bred in captivity as these are much easier to tame and handle.

Remember that the cute little snake in the five-gallon tank at the pet store may get quite large. Research the species you are cnsidering.

Annually, thousands of Ball Pythons are caught in the wild and imported to the U.S. to be sold in pet stores. These are usually more difficult to tame, may have parasites and be stressed from capture and transport. Also, it is best for any pet to not be taken from the wild, since sooner or later the wild population will suffer because too many are taken.

Before purchasing, check the snake’s body and make sure it has clean, smooth skin. Check the vent (or anus), nostrils and eyes for any discharge. Arrange for the breeder to show a feeding demonstration as well, to make sure the snake is eating well.

Ball Pythons are not as active as other snakes, so a 10 gallon tank is usually sufficient for juveniles and a minimum of 20 gallons for adults. Make sure you have the lid securely fitted because all snakes are great escape artists. For the tank’s substrate, newspaper or astro-turf are fine, as well as aspen, pine or cypress mulch. Add a few branches for them to climb on at night, and a dark hiding place for them to sleep during the day.

Provide a water bowl large enough for the snake to soak in, which is important in helping a snake shed its old skin. Since ball pythons are native to very warm temperate to dry areas in Africa, they may be comfortable with the current humidity of your household. However, if it is too dry and your snake is having difficulty shedding (it takes more than 24 hours or the shed comes off in many pieces), or its feces are dry when excreted or there is straining to defecate, it is a good idea to mist inside the tank twice a day with a spray bottle filled with room temperature water. Then natural evaporation of the water by a heat source (discussed below) raises humidity in the tank.

Daytime temperatures in the tank should be between 80 and 90 F. Nighttime temperatures can be between 70 and 80 F. A heat lamp with a ceramic heat bulb can be placed on top of the tank off to one side to act as a basking area. A low wattage incandescent light with a metal reflector (found at any hardware store) can be placed on top of the tank, at about the midpoint. It’s best to turn off the light at night.

Ball pythons will be happy with a diet of mice or small rats. Adults can be fed 4 or 5 mice every other week and juveniles can be fed a few pinkie mice every 5-7 days. Using pre-killed food is safest for your snake. Using a pair of forceps to dangle the mouse in front of the snake will trigger interest and keep your hands safe from their bite. Their teeth are quite small, needle thin and needle sharp, so be careful when feeding. When handling any snake make sure there’s no scent of the snake’s food on your clothes or hands. It is a good idea to move the python into a separate area for feeding so it won’t associate anything that enters its tank (your hands, for example) as food. These snakes are known for fasting for long periods. As long as body weight is sustained and the Python's condition looks good overall, there is no need to panic.

Python swallows baby in Edo State - Graphic picture

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A python, yesterday, swallowed a baby at Okada, Edo State.
Witnesses say the snake, measuring about 10ft long, swallowed a six-month-old baby that was left abandoned outside a house.
The baby was reportedly left on a mat outside, while the mother went inside. A witness, who claimed to have arrived the scene as the snake was in the process of swallowing the baby, raised an alarm. People rushed to the scene and killed the snake, but were too late to save the baby.

My question is, if someone saw the snake in the process of swallowing the baby, why didn't they kill it before it completed the job and at least try to save the child. Where was the child's mother? There's no way a snake would be swallowing a baby and the baby would not be screaming its lungs out at least at first. I'm so freaked out by the story and the picture is not helping matters.

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10 Most Beautiful Snakes on Earth, come see it

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Photo: nasmac

Snakes. The word makes some shudder and others cringe while yet others think in wonder of the huge world of reptiles and their marvels. Whether you hate them or love them, one thing cannot be denied: their beauty. Count the top 10 down with me!

10. Honduran Milk Snake
Photo: Doug Mong

Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis, is found in Honduras and Nicaragua. While at first glance not one of the most beautiful snakes, take a look at its scales above - they are bright (which is what the 'lampro' in the binomial name stands for) and a brilliant red and black. They are constrictors, but look a lot like coral snakes which herpetologists believe is an example of Batesian Mimicry - when a harmless animal takes on the appearance of a venomous one to protect themselves.

Photo: Doug Mong

9. Leucistic Texas Rat Snake
Photo: Doug Mong

This Leucistic Texas Rat Snake is a lovely lady in white. She gets her coloring and the "leucistic" element of her name from a condition that results in a lack of all pigmentation, rather than just melanin which appears in albinism. This is why her eyes are of normal color. Texas Rat Snakes are (obviously) found in Texas as well as in Arizona and Louisiana. They are non venomous so a bite will give you little more than a sore leg.

8. Indigo Eastern Rat Snake
Photo: Ameng Wu

The Eastern Indigo snake is unofficially the longest in America, reaching lengths of 9.2ft. Carnivorous in habits, he has been known to beat his prey against other objects in a frenzied fashion to kill it. He will even eat other snakes such as the Texas Rattlesnake, and is immune to its venom. That aside, he deserves number 8 in our countdown for his brilliant black beauty that can look almost blue in the light.

7. The Emerald Tree Boa
Photo: Derek Ramsey

One of the most vivid and unforgettable snakes is the Emerald Tree Boa, Corallus Caninus. These are found in South America and the Amazon. Even though it looks like it is closely related to the Green Tree Python and sleeps the same way, they are only distant relatives. One thing that the Emerald has, is very large front teeth. They way she catche her prey is to stay coiled on the branch, head down, ready to strike. She then catches small
mammals with her front teeth and pulls them in to their doom.

6. The Iridescent Shieldtail
Photo: Sandilya Theuerkauf

The only reason this lovely is not in the top 3 is that it is hard to see exactly how beautiful she is from this photograph, but she is actually even more gorgeous than she appears here. She has to be one of the most beautiful snakes in the world. The Iridescent Shieldtail, Melanophidium bilineatum , is not well known. Only three specimens are thought to have ever been caught and little is known of how it behaves in the wild. Recently some more have been seen but all that can be said for certain is that it's beautiful and rare.

5. Amelanistic Burmese Python
Photo: Danleo

This head turner is an Amelanistic Burmese python - a species which retains their yellow, carotenoid-derived pigments. Mammals only produce pigments with melanins while birds and reptiles can also produce them by other means including carotenoids as we see here. Effectively though, she can be considered an albino snake in that amelanistic is classified under albinism

4. Brazilian Rainbow Boa
Photo: Doug Mong

This beauty is the Brazilian Rainbow Boa, Epicrates cenchria
named for the iridescent color of its scales. The underlying color is either brown, orange as we see here or a mix of the two. It is found in Central and South America and all the way through the Amazon basin. It is medium sized compared to other snakes and it likes the rivers and drainage areas, living for up to 20 years.

3. Eastern Coral Snake
Photo: Norman Benton

Micrurus fulvius is one of the most beautiful of all snakes. Unfortunately it is also very venomous, as are all coral snakes. On the good side, there are only about 15 to 20 recorded bites a year but on the bad side they are deadly and soon there will be no more antivenin for it. Pfizer, has said that with such low demand, it is not worth the cost and research spent on it, and current stock is due to expire at the end of this year. The snakes are forest animals, living in leaf litter and brush. They flee before biting, but if you do get bitten it is imperative you go to a doctor. Respiratory failure occurs within hours.

2. Blue Racer Snake
Photo: Jon Fife

This beauty is a pretty rare photograph of a Blue Racer snake. I say rare because its not often you get such a brilliant blue reflecting from the scales, as often they seem more gray in color. Its formal name is Coluber constrictor but despite this, they normally simply pin their prey to the ground and swallow them alive. They are known mostly east of the Rockies but have been seen as far south as Mexico.

Photo: Jon Fife

1. Green Tree Python
Photo: Micha L. Rieser

Morelia viridis, the Green Tree Python is a stunner that is found in New Guinea, Indonesia and parts of Australia. It, along with the Emerald Tree Boa, have a unique way of sleeping. They loop one or two coils along a branch, saddle style and place their head in the middle. Remember if it is in Indonesia, it is a python, if it is in South America, a boa. They are often mixed up because they are the only two that sleep this way.

Photo: Silvain de Munck

Sadly it is threatened due to the destruction of its habitat by logging, as well as by the pet trade. For her grace, her beauty and her threatened status, she easily deserves the number one spot in our countdown.

As I said earlier, whether you shudder at snakes or you like them, their beauty cannot be denied. There are others some feel more beautiful but I think this gives a good cross section of their amazing diversity in appearance. Several are threatened by loss of habitat, thereby threatening other species. However, hopefully we can remember that they are needed in this world to keep the food chain balanced. If for no reason but their beauty I hope you will think twice when you hear of new logging in the Amazon or other areas.

Sumber: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-most-beautiful-snakes

kangaroos hopping away

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Danish police have appealed for public help to track down a kangaroo that escaped from its owner's home in Copenhagen.

Two of the fleet-footed native Australian marsupials escaped from their owner's residence in the Copenhagen neighborhood of Amager on Monday.

One found its own way home today but the second remains on the loose, police said.

Auction for the Naming Rights for A New Butterfly Species

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In an apparent first for butterflies, the Florida Museum of Natural History is auctioning the naming rights for a newly discovered species online to raise money for butterfly research.

University of Florida researchers George Austin and Andrew Warren discovered the new species of owl butterfly earlier this year. The discovery is significant because the species is large and colorful, and is the first butterfly from this group to be named in more than 100 years.

Rather than naming the butterfly themselves, the customary practice when new species are discovered, Austin and Warren decided to auction the naming rights of the new species to raise money to support continued research on Mexican butterflies at the McGuire Center.

Arctic Foxes save for lean times

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Arctic foxes create "nest eggs" each year to prepare for leaner times, according to a new study.

Like squirrels gathering nuts for the winter, the small foxes hoard bird eggs in case there's not enough of their favorite prey—the collard lemming—to go around in the spring.

The stored eggs can last for up to a year after being buried, thanks to the Arctic permafrost and natural preservatives inside the eggs.

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