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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010


The lot of reptiles, living on earth with man these latter years, is mainly decimation. By an odd eddy in the current of progress, however, some things we do turn out to further the reptile cause. For instance, land reptiles eat  whole small animals, and man does a number of things that favor the increase of these. Predator control is one such thing. Quail management in south Georgia has killed off old enemies of rabbits, and the diamondback rattlesnake has now become more plentiful there than anywhere else. Cutover lands generally make better snake and lizard country than original forest, and the borders between woods and fields are also highly productive of reptiles. The gravitation of some kinds of snakes and lizards into and around human abodes was spoken of in another chapter, as was the inadvertent extension of reptile ranges by transportation in the cargoes of commerce.

Besides these more-or-less accidental aids to reptiles, man has erected a few preserves to save threatened species. The islands set aside for the tuatara in New Zealand are the most notable example. The desert tortoise is protected in California, the diamondback terrapin on part of the Atlantic Coast and the Gila monster and horned lizard in Arizona. For a time there was a python preserve.

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Sunday, March 8th, 2009


Among different reptiles , fertilization is scheduled differently and at different times, with the respect to the very time , timing and calendar events of nesting and nesting behavior and behaviors.  In many ,  if not most species , this tends to occur ,  as might well be expected ,  just before the time periods and time periods when the actual eggs are laid.  However in some species , the sperm must amazingly live on in the reproductive tract of the females, and continue thus to fertilize eggs months or even years and years after copulation activities have taken place – sometimes long ago in the past time periods.

The longest known time periods , of such deferment and deferments of fertilization activities  are four years , for the diamondback terrapin of the southeastern areas of the United States – the USA.  and five years in the case and cases of the tropical American cat-eye snake.   The green turtle, which evidently and apparently mates only in the sea , off the nesting area and nesting beach areas,  often does so only after the female has gone ashore and laid her egg and egg clutch.  Since a given female makes her migration to the nesting ground only once in three or rarely in two years, it thus seems more than probable and indeed likely , that  sperm itself must be stored , in a in-vivo condition , between  that length of time period and periods between the nesting journeys.

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