Fish and Amphibians

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Lorraine Jones, from Brecon, found the snake sliding around on her window sill on Sunday night, August 15. Adblock test (Why?)

For the third year, Saratoga will host a Reptile Expo. The expo will have hundreds of snakes, frogs, tarantulas, turtles, salamanders, tortoises, and more. Each year the Saratoga Reptile Expo has drawn thousands of people interested in learning about these exotic pets and purchasing them. There will also be reptile-related supplies available. It will be held at the Saratoga City Center on September 11th. According to Saratogian.com, this event will be larger this year opening up a five thousand square foot annex rood so there will be more room for vendors and area slated for social distancing. This will make the Saratoga Reptile Expo a total of twenty-eight thousand five hundred square feet. There will be all different kinds of reptiles on display. There will be more than one hundred thirty vendors and sixty breeders on hand. They will be selling captive bred and long-term captive reptiles, small exotic mammals, amphibians, invertebrates like spiders, and leaf bugs, and feeder...

C aecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife biologists captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal, the first example of an introduced caecilian in the U.S. Florida Museum of Natural History scientists used DNA testing to identify the specimen as the Rio Cauca caecilian, Typhlonectes natans , a native of Colombia and Venezuela. While caecilians – pronounced like "Sicilians" – hunt and scavenge various kinds of small animals, museum experts say it's too early to predict their potential impact on the local ecosystem. "Very little is known about these animals in the wild, but there's nothing particularly dangerous about them, and they don't appear to be serious predators," said Coleman Sheehy, Florida Museum's herpetology collection manager. "They'll probably eat small animals and get eaten by larger ones. This could be just another non-native species in the South Florida mix." Sheeh...

A game about unwinding in the wetland Paradise Marsh is going to live in my brain as "that chill nature game with the frog," which is not to be confused with "that meta edutainment game with the frog," "that silly detective game with the frog," or any other form of amphibian-based gaming. [embedded content] Coming to us from developer LazyEti, with tunes by Disasterpeace, Paradise Marsh is a laid-back adventure game that isn't any more or less than it needs to be. It's a "short contemplative game about exploring a peaceful wetland," and that sounds rather lovely. Based on the teaser, this seems to be a calm little stroll with some — but not too much — stuff to collect and check out, whether it's a tadpole or beetle for your journal, a floating poem in a bottle, or fallen stars that need to be restored in the "empty night sky." I've gotta say, not enough games just let us loose in a scenic world with a bug net...

By Jake Buehler Titan triggerfish sometimes hunt land-based prey Matthew Tietbohl Many land animals will dip beneath the waves to catch and eat fish, but the reverse situation can sometimes occur too, as the titan triggerfish demonstrates. The fish, which can grow to a length of 75 centimetres, will sometimes beach itself to feed on crabs walking along the shoreline. In 2018, on the Red Sea's Mar Mar Island, Matthew Tietbohl, a coral reef ecologist at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Saudi Arabia, was surveying a beach for sea turtle tracks with some … Adblock test (Why?)

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