Author: John Virata

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What To Do If Bit By A Rattlesnake

What To Do If Bit By A Rattlesnake

Treatment of Pitviper Envenomation in the Rural Southwestern U.S. runs June 23-24, 2023. [...]

OCIC’s Resident Albino Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake Dies at 21

Edgar came to the OCIC via the Central Florida Zoo, where he was born September 8, 2001. [...]
Warming Temperatures Will Increase Female Galapagos Tortoise Population, Study Says

Warming Temperatures Will Increase Female Galapagos Tortoise Population, Study Says

The researchers say that temperatures on the Galapagos islands will increase from 1 to 4 degrees Celsius over the next 50 years, which will likely cau [...]
Gopher Snake Found On Maui, Hawaii Euthanized

Gopher Snake Found On Maui, Hawaii Euthanized

A resident called the department and reported seeing children playing with the reptile May 15. [...]
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida Wants to Amend Lacey Act, Again

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida Wants to Amend Lacey Act, Again

The bill creates a “white list” of species that can be imported. This means that any animal that is not on the white list is by default treated as pot [...]

Sand Sculpture Gator Frightens Even Florida Police

Somebody built a very realistic alligator sculpture out of sand in Florida and even fooled the police for a short minute. [...]
122 Captive-Bred Royal Turtles Hatched In Cambodia

122 Captive-Bred Royal Turtles Hatched In Cambodia

The species, also known as the royal turtle in Cambodia, has successfully laid eggs in captivity at the center for three years. [...]
Chonkosauraus the Snapping Turtle Make Debut On Once Toxic Chicago River

Chonkosauraus the Snapping Turtle Make Debut On Once Toxic Chicago River

The Chicago River was once a highly polluted waterway with high levels of PCBs and mercury contamination due in large part to industry that used the r [...]
Seychelles To Count Its Aldabra Giant Tortoises

Seychelles To Count Its Aldabra Giant Tortoises

With the captive populations of the Aldabra giant tortoises, the quality of their enclosures, diets and general well being will be observed with advic [...]

PGA Tour Vet Rickie Fowler, Sponsored By Cobra, Handles Water Snake At Wells Fargo Championship

The golf world was abuzz this past weekend when Rickie Fowler, who happens to be sponsored by Cobra Golf, happened upon a water snake in a water hazar [...]
55 Louisiana Pine Snakes Released In Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest

55 Louisiana Pine Snakes Released In Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest

More than 200 Louisiana pine snakes have been released since captive breeding and release efforts began in 2010. [...]

Copperhead Snake Named Red Hot Cheeto Goes Viral

The snake in itself is not unusual at the park, but the name Red Hot Cheeto certainly causes one to take a second look. [...]
19 Captive-Bred Eastern Indigo Snakes Released In Florida’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve

19 Captive-Bred Eastern Indigo Snakes Released In Florida’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve

The eastern Indigo snakes hatched in 2021. The 10 males and nine females were raised for a year at the Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation (OCIC). [...]
UC Davis Exotic Vets Remove Bladder Stone From 80-Year-Old Desert Tortoise

UC Davis Exotic Vets Remove Bladder Stone From 80-Year-Old Desert Tortoise

Tortie, a California desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) who has grown up with the same family for more than 60 years recently underwent successful s [...]
Australia Snake Catcher Records Keelback Snake Dining on Invasive Cane Toad

Australia Snake Catcher Records Keelback Snake Dining on Invasive Cane Toad

Hudson Snake Catching-Gold Coast Snake Catcher in Australia captured some pretty cool footage of a keelback snake feeding on an invasive cane toad (Rh [...]
Rat Snake Hitches Ride On Politician Adam Kinzinger’s Plane

Rat Snake Hitches Ride On Politician Adam Kinzinger’s Plane

Kinzinger took four photos of the rat snake near the wheel chocks of his plane, and it is quite a beautiful specimen. [...]
Dominic, Akron Zoo’s Mountain Chicken Frog Dies at 18 Years 10 Months

Dominic, Akron Zoo’s Mountain Chicken Frog Dies at 18 Years 10 Months

It s estimated that there are less than 50 mountain chicken frogs left in the wild. [...]
5 New Papua New Guinea Treefrog Species Described

5 New Papua New Guinea Treefrog Species Described

The five described species are Litoria daraiensis, Litoria gracilis, Litoria haematogaster, Litoria lisae and Litoria naispela. [...]
Newquay Zoo Announces Addition of Critically Endangered Big-Headed Turtle

Newquay Zoo Announces Addition of Critically Endangered Big-Headed Turtle

The Newquay Zoo in Newquay, Cornwall, England announced it has added a critically endangered big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) to its coll [...]
Freedoms in Florida Dwindle As FWC Slaughters Pet Boa And 34 Other Snakes On Holy Thursday

Freedoms in Florida Dwindle As FWC Slaughters Pet Boa And 34 Other Snakes On Holy Thursday

USARK Florida is also calling on Governor DeSantis to hold FWC accountable by asking for the resignation of the FWC employee who gave the unjust order [...]
Cape Cobra Spotted In Plane Cockpit, Pilot Turns Plane Around

Cape Cobra Spotted In Plane Cockpit, Pilot Turns Plane Around

Cape cobras are medium-sized venomous elapids of the Naja genus and grow to about 5 1/2 feet in length. [...]
Dwarf Reed Snake Cartwheels To Escape Predators

Dwarf Reed Snake Cartwheels To Escape Predators

Cartwheeling is the latest form of escape for a colubrid snake native to Southeast Asia called the dwarf reed snake. [...]
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