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		<title>Man arrested at LAX with 15 lizards strapped to his chest.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just have to wonder what people are thinking&#8230;
Forty-year old Michael Plank of Lomita, California was arrested last week while attempting to pass through U.S. Customs at Los Angeles International Airport with two geckos, two monitor lizards and 11 skinks in a money belt wrapped around his chest.
 The lizards, valued at $8,500 and strictly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com&blog=823023&post=476&subd=terrariummorbidum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>18:th Norrköping Symposium 2009, Sweden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all!!
I would like to invite you to this event. Have a look on what you´ll get in one weekend!
This is the 18:th symposium in Norrköping, Sweden.
Bernard Devaux, France. Is working with tortoises and will hold two talks:
1.   The status of the French populations and conservation projects.
2.  Spurred Tortoise, Centrochelys sulcata, status in Senegal and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com&blog=823023&post=471&subd=terrariummorbidum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is for all of you, interested in European herps!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here´s a tip..
Join my forum!
It´s a forum for people interested and dedicated to the keeping and breeding of European reptiles and amphibians, outdoors and indoors. Some very competent people are members, and an easy going atmosphere makes it easy to get answers.
It also have a photoarea, fieldherping, classifieds, show / expodates and a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com&blog=823023&post=464&subd=terrariummorbidum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Spider-Man lizard&#8221; (Mwanza Flat Headed Agama)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Demand for a striking blue and red lizard has surged among comic fans thanks to its uncanny resemblance to Spiderman. Pet shops specialising in exotic animals have reported a surge in popularity for the Mwanza Flat Headed Agama lizard, which is native to Africa. Karen Baker, of amphibian and reptile specialist store Exotic-pets.co.uk, said that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com&blog=823023&post=455&subd=terrariummorbidum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds of sand lizards released</title>
		<link>http://terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/hundreds-of-sand-lizards-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of rare sand lizards are being released into the wild at locations in England and Wales from where they had previously disappeared.
They will be reintroduced at five sites in Surrey, Dorset and mid-Wales.
The sand lizard was once a common sight across heathland, but the gradual destruction of its habitats has led to its extinction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com&blog=823023&post=453&subd=terrariummorbidum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rattlers, Peepers &amp; Snappers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rattlers, Peepers &#38; Snappers is for anyone interested in the biology, natural history, or the 52 fascinating amphibians &#38; reptiles in New England.
Vince Franke teamed up with Jim Andrews, of the VT Reptile and Amphibian Atlas, to create individual segments on all the species that breed in New England as well as reptile and amphibian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com&blog=823023&post=438&subd=terrariummorbidum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pictures on how snakeskin is collected for the trade. WARNING! GRAPHIC PICTURES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ WARNING! GRAPHIC PICTURES!

The following message is made of an well known herpetologist, I am in this post just quoting it. / Miqe
&#8220;I was sent the images by a concerned Sri Lankan herpetologist but I would imagine the images originate from Indonesia (Sumatra and/or Kalimantan, Borneo), possibly Malaysia, (Peninsula or Sarawak, Borneo, but less likely)
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		<title>Lizard she-males survive longer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


Augrabies Flat Lizard &#8217;she-males&#8217; can

The Augrabies Flat Lizard (Platysaurus broadleyi), a star of Sir David Attenborough’s recent series Life in Cold Blood, adds another twist to its tale. A team of South African and Australian researchers have discovered that some males of this dramatically coloured lizard mimic females during early maturity and thereby avoid the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com&blog=823023&post=423&subd=terrariummorbidum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researcher Finds Tailless Lizards Lose Agility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When in a predator’s grips, many lizards drop their tails to escape. But what price do they pay for freedom? A team led by biology professor Gary Gillis of Mount Holyoke College found the lizards were compromised: They could no longer jump without tumbling backwards, making it difficult to land safely when jumping between branches.
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		<title>What Is The World&#8217;s Rarest Animal? Herp?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Whit Gibbons,(Eco-Views) Aiken Standard, SC, 1/09/09
This question needs to be qualified if you expect to get anything like consensus from scientists. For example, you might restrict the question to types of animals (such as bird, fish or frog) or to a location (such as within the United States, within Alabama or in the desert). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com&blog=823023&post=401&subd=terrariummorbidum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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