Caresheets

I have some caresheets for some European herptiles..

Vipera ammodytes

Timon lepidus

Hyla arborea

All files are pdf:s..

What “herps” do I keep..

Well..

I´ll tell you.

Vipera ammodytes ammodytes, Nose-horned Viper
Vipera orlovi, Orlov´s viper
Gloydius halys caraganus, Russian pit viper
Elaphe quatuorlineata muenteri, Cycladian fourlined snake
Zamenis situla, Leopardsnake
Hyla arborea, European green treefrog
Timon lepidus, Occellated lizard
Podarcis situla cettii, Italian wall lizard
Podarcis milensis, Milos wall lizard
Podarcis pityusensis kameriana, Ibiza wall lizard

Pollutants change ‘he’ frogs into ’she’ frogs

PARIS (AFP) - Frogs that started life as male tadpoles were changed in an experiment into females by estrogen-like pollutants similar to those found in the environment, according to a new study.
Yahoo!!

Chemical Weapons: Skin of Newt and Liver of Snakes

A few columns back I touched on the chemical arms race between newts and garter snakes: the newts loaded with a fugu-like toxin to which the snakes have evolved resistance. Well, there are complexities to that story that I wasn’t aware of, some of which are described in a 2004 Journal of Chemical Ecology article entitled “A Resistant Predator and its Toxic Prey: Persistence of Newt Toxin Leads to Poisonous (Not Venomous) Snakes.” The lead author, Becky Williams, is a UC Berkeley graduate student; she collaborated with Edmund Brodie, Jr. of Utah State University and Edmund Brodie III, now at the University of Virginia.
The Berkeley Daily Planet

Hungry snake?

An article in Swedish that i found. Aftonbladet.

Still winter..

Well.. As it is quite cold and snowy right now, (atleast where I live..) all my animals are still in hibernation. They will probably be woken up in a month or so..

First post!!

Right..

Here´s the deal..

I have been looking around the internet for blogs about the big interest of mine. Herptiles!! Now, herptiles is the word that combines the categories reptiles and amphibians.

As I tried to find any blogs regarding this wide subject, the thought of starting my own sprung to mind. Anyhow, I did not find many blogs, so this was created.