courtney cook @apicomplexan
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Sneak peak of some cool parasites the @NWU_WRG parasitologists are discovering here at Tsitsikamma while trying to see if MPAs do protect our hidden diversity. First up some dancing ergasilid copepods on the gills of the endemic South African mullet!! @Linda_vd_Spuy
Have you ever seen a fish trypanosome making its way through blood cells? This is how they role!! Another great find of our MPAs protecting hidden diversity project! #ParasiteConservation @NWU_WRG @NWU_UESM @ChandraLeRoux @apicomplexan @WepenerVictor @WynandMalherbe
Praying Manis lowered into water to entice out the parasite within! 🪱😱 video credit: Insect world.
If you live in #KZN, please go to Forms.gle/2Z1W3b5W26pR7Y… to help our research on #NileMonitors in #KwaZulu-Natal. 🦎🦎 It only takes 5 to 10 minutes! Many thanks! 🙂 #Varanusniloticus #ukzn #varanidae #HAA #durban #pietermaritzburg #biawak #citizenscience #uxamu #likkewaan
A HAMSTER THIEF! Read about how a Black Mamba came to visit a pet hamster, and it didn't end well for the hamster! facebook.com/13815102788310… #snakes #Durban #southafrica #kzn #wildlife #africa #reptiles #BlackMamba #conservation #hamster
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...until your prey item uses you as a hiding place. At our Turtle Survival Center in South Carolina we feed a well-balanced diet to the turtles and tortoises there. For this young Indochinese Box Turtle (Cuora galbinifrons) that...
Latest video on my YouTube channel, about a very well-hidden Puff Adder! youtu.be/F2VkbJbWhkc #snakes #Durban #southafrica #youtubechannel #youtuber #youtube #youtubers #PuffAdder #reptiles #conservation #wildlife
In today’s adorable-beyond-belief news...phys.org/news/2020-09-t…
Tonight's episode of Snake Season, sees me going to rescue a different kind of reptile! For more details: facebook.com/13815102788310… #SnakeSeason #DSTV #PeoplesWeather #MonitorLizards #reptiles #durban #southafrica #africa #kzn #conservation #wildlife #lizard
Insane. 🐍🐍
American Tortoise Rescue is fundraising for Help Protect Our Sanctuary During Wildfires charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/…
Snake Season is back tonight 😎 😁🐍 Tonight's episode features two exciting yet challenging Black Mamba rescues! Tune in at 6PM on the People's Weather Channel (180) on DSTV! Repeat at 9PM and 10AM tomorrow morning. #snakes #Durban #southafrica #conservation #africa #wildlife
Our hero?? Definitely this amazing traffic warden helping a turtle cross the road safely in Pakistan. We love to see it!!
On Snake Season tonight, Johan Marais, of the African Snakebite Institute, will be talking to us about snakebite & venom, with an interesting demonstration. We'll also be learning about a rarely seen snake, and, of course there will be mamba rescues! #SnakeSeason #Durban #KZN
Something around here is apparently partial to gecko tails... How many geckoes can you spot in this pic? #wildoz
Did you know that #Pythons and #Boas have vestigial remnants of legs called pelvic spurs and femoral bones?! Check out this cool video! CT scanning is a great tool to study #biodiversity and #herpetology. Great visualization by @RamonSN @UMichEEB!
Did you know that #Pythons and #Boas have vestigial remnants of legs called pelvic spurs and femoral bones?! Check out this cool video! CT scanning is a great tool to study #biodiversity and #herpetology. Great visualization by @RamonSN @UMichEEB!
SNAKE SEASON Starts 7 September at 18:00. Don't miss SNAKE SEASON a wildlife series of snake capture, rescue and release on People°sWeather this spring. Featuring a world renowned snake handler and conservationist @NickEvansKZN from KwaZulu-Natal. #SnakeSeason
One of the longest Green Mambas I have rescued, at a construction site on the North Coast last week. A 2m male which construction workers were protective of thankfully! Unfortunately, Mambas here have had to deal with their habitat being destroyed recently. #conservation #snake
Scientists capture rare footage of mother skink fighting a deadly brown snake to protect her babies phys.org/news/2020-09-s… via @physorg_com
Morphological and molecular characterization of an African freshwater ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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HerpAssociationAfrica @AfricaHerp
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Dr Cormac Price @C_MrPrice
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