Here’s a heart-warming story in today’s NYT. Well done Jordan! By coincidence I bumped into the veterinarian in this story at a NY reptile show today…and she’d been to my talk in Milwaukee last summer. Dr. Laurie Hess is setting up a new avian and exotics practice in the NY Area. Check it out.
photo: katie orlinsky, nyt
A group of prominent herpetologists has joined USARK in criticising the validity of a US government study on “giant” snakes (9 python species, anacondas and boa constrictors), and the threat the snakes pose to the U.S. Here is the letter.
The government study, done by USGS, is part of the Lacey Act process to determine whether a species is “injurious” as a preliminary step to regulating/banning/exterminating it. The study comes on the heels of anti-python legislation currently under consideration in both the House and Senate (HR 2811/S.373).
My 2 cents: Regardless of the “injuriousness” of giant snakes under the Lacey Act, trade and keeping of the (more…)
It is called Miami Book Fair International. I did a reading there last year, and if you’re in South Florida this week please, please, please let yourself be swallowed up by this great celebration!
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