Terrestrially hibernating reptiles that live in seasonally cold climates need effective strategies of cold hardiness to survive the winter. Use of thermally buffered hibernacula is very important but when exposure to temperatures below 0 degrees C cannot be avoided, either freeze avoidance (supercooling) or freeze tolerance strategies can be employed, sometimes by the same species depending on ...

During 1994-1995, health departments in 13 states reported to CDC persons infected with unusual Salmonella serotypes in which the patients had direct or indirect contact with reptiles (i.e., lizards, snakes, or turtles). In many of those cases, the same serotype of Salmonella was isolated from patients and from reptiles with which they had had contact or a common contact. For some cases, infect...

An r-gentiling is a dissection of a shape into r ≥ 2 parts which are all similar to the original shape. An r-reptiling is an r-gentiling of which all parts are mutually congruent. This article shows that no acute tetrahedron is an r-gentile or r-reptile for any r < 9, by showing that no acute spherical diangle can be dissected into less than nine acute spherical triangles.

Archeological landscapes are important places because they protect areas of historical importance, shape cultural and national identity, recreational spaces, vital sources tourism revenue. Archaeological have the potential to assist in reptile conservation. The objective this study was compare diurnal richness an archaeological site a nature reserve (treatment control for biodiversity value) mo...

of a widespread species than to be faced with the challenge of conserving every population because all are distinctive. Undoubtedly, some reptile species have already gone extinct before we even knew they existed. But a lot remain to be discovered: for example, a single square kilometre of Australian desert can contain 14 co-existing species of the lizard genus Ctenotus (many of them so similar...

The island of New Guinea has been identified as a megadiverse region because of its extraordinary biodiversity and highly endemic biota (Mittermeier and Mittermeier 1997). New Guinea, the world’s largest and highest tropical island, occupies less than 1% of global land area yet 5–7% of the world’s biodiversity is found on the island (Beehler 1993; Dinerstein and Wikramanayake 1993; Mack 1998; M...