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Look folks, there are so many scaly kids who need a new loving home. Please help me find them new loving snarents (snake parents).
Please boost! I haven’t had any requests to adopt yet, and three new animals posted today. We have three leos, a beardie, a chameleon, and a bunch of snakes. All come with full enclosures and decor. What a perfect way to get into snake keeping!
We asked Dr. David Steen, @alongsideWild , what the most important thing we turtle and tortoise humans should know and this is what he said.
What does this mean? With so many species already at risk, the loss of a single turtle or tortoise can cause an EXTREME decrease in the population as a whole.
As @Rymkrs points out, one turtle lost to us is decades of hatchlings that will never be. This is why it’s SO very important we keep wildlife wild, safe, and respected, so turtles and tortoises continue to be among the longest living creatures on our planet.
Dr. David Steen is an Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at Auburn University and according to @Slate the best biologist on Twitter! We agree!
^THIS THIS THIS
Turtle/tortoise populations are EXTREMELY sensitive to losing sexually mature adults. The loss of only a few adults (single digits!) could doom a local turtle population to a slow but inevitable extinction.
Moral of the story: LEAVE TURTLES IN THE WILD (especially adults; if you really must take one take a hatchling).
when turt/tort shopping, make sure the breeder is selling captive-bred specimens! They should be marked CBB.
Killing snakes doesn’t make you a hero, it makes you a coward.
If you are so scared of a pretty little hissy ribbon that you would shoot it with a shotgun, you then, need a lesson in courage.
Unless, you know. You live in an area highly populated with venomous snakes and you have children and family to protect and can’t just pick it up and move it because. It’s venomous and you don’t know how to safely handle it. In which case. Courage is worth a glass hammer in a wind tunnel.
Take the children/pets inside and call animal control or some other reptile removal service. You’re only going to upset the snake if you go up to kill it. In fact, that’s how MOST people (I’m on mobile, so no source) get bitten. Just leave it alone and call people who know what they’re doing.
And, although my local copperheads ARE on the lazy side (being well-fed does that to a snake), I’ve never once had to kill one. Pull them out of the pool, sure. Leave them alone on the driveway, yep. Take another route inside because they were sunning themselves on the porch/defecating on the porch, heck yeah. Drag my dog inside to make him stop harassing one, too many times. Once I had to sit there with one who decided that no, he liked my arm and was going to stay there. But I’ve never been bitten, I’ve never gotten aggressive with them, and I’ve never needed to kill one.
^This. If you get a lot of snakes in your yard then that means your yard is good snake habitat. Which means that killing the local snakes does nothing but kill an animal and put you in danger (as was said above trying to kill a snake is how the vast majority of people get bit) because more snakes will just move in.
How can you actually make your yard safe? Make the yard less hospitable for snakes and the rodents that they eat. Remove hiding places (woodpiles, etc), seal up holes in structures, better control the rodent population on your property, etc. You will have fewer snakes. And if you live somewhere with a lot of snakes you should teach your children basic snake safety and teach children and pets to avoid places where they are more likely to encounter snakes.
Lillian
he dreams a dreams
gonna beecome the godilla. i AM goinna do this and be a VERY the tall and have LOT of friend and kick building. dream to believfe…..
She’s about to shed, but we went on an adventure for the first time 💙
We didn’t expect her to have a feeding response like this
Enjoying a sunny day outside! They really seemed to enjoy digging through the dirt and sniffing around for treats.
oh my god i remember when they were tiny beans!
what a nerd
it’s that time of year….
i love anime season
Look at how blue/purple our mimosa (hypo champagne) boy is getting! He just shed and a nice overcast day led to some great pictures.
Ball Pythons make the best faces
Say cheese!
Is it wrong that Sans grumpus attitude is absolutely delightful to me?
Not at all! She’s generally calmer once you get her out of the cage and she has a little time to realize what you are (she’s 100% blind so the grumpus is understandable) but most of the time it’s fight time
Look at how cute my sweet Lollipop’s freckles are coming in!!!!! I’m so happy, I bought her because of her freckling, and then it was gone when she showed up! The breeder assured me it would re-develop as she settled, and sure enough, here it is ☺️ hopefully the freckles on her back come in again soon!!!
Why not start out with one of my favorites?
The bowfin (Amia calva), the only surviving member of the family Amiidae. These prehistoric fishes have played a large part in helping us to understand vertebrate development.
here, have a cute danger noodle
Tokay Gecko by Mano Aliczki
