The possessors of undue honors are themselves sensible of this; for when their repeated guilt renders their persons unsafe, they disown their rank, and, like glow-worms, extinguish themselves into common reptiles, to avoid discovery.
Don't use substrate; use paper towel or reptile carpet instead to avoid impaction.
Examples include reptiles camouflaging themselves to avoid discovery, fish and birds swarming to confuse predators, insects releasing toxic chemicals, and humans readying themselves to fight or flee.
Such was the interest that Ditmars grew to avoid the reptile house as somebody was sure to stop him and fire off a volley of questions about the bushmaster.
We thus suggest that obtaining data on the outcomes of reptile recovery will require managers to avoid mixing populations for pre-emptive genetic rescue, and a commitment to long term ecological and genetic studies.
That could have been a death knell for species such as the endangered Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard, a unique reptile that glides beneath the sand to avoid predators.
Amongst reptiles, tuataras (Sphenodon punctatus) apparently use the MHC to avoid kin both in mate choice and in territorial fights [ 99], although the effect was relatively weak.
Health officials advise pregnant women, children younger than 5, older people and people with weakened immune systems to avoid direct and indirect contact with reptiles.
In the United States, the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians (ARAV) produced a client education handout with basic facts on how to avoid transmission of Salmonella bacteria from reptiles to humans (13 ).
Normally, small reptiles tend to reduce activity during such an environmental onslaught to avoid becoming dehydrated.
