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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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RoadFEATURE Mortality ARTICLES of an Oriental Garden Lizard, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On theCalotes Road to Understanding theversicolor Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s(Daudin Giant Serpent ...... 1802) Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 Puja Deb1 and Debaprasad Sengupta2 RESEARCH ARTICLES 1Department of Zoology and Wildlife Biology, A.V.C. College (Autonomous), Mannampandal-609305, Tamil Nadu, India ([email protected]) . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and2Bansbari Western TexasPathar, ...... Dibrugarh-786001, Emily Henry, Assam, Jason Brewer,India Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212
CONSERVATION ALERT ssentially all .terrestrialWorld’s Mammals animals in Crisis ...... are vulnerable to road than that on state and ...... national highways, 220 this road is used Emortality or habitat. More Than fragmentation Mammals ...... by roads (Rytwinski extensively by local villagers...... and forest 223 officials. and Fahrig 2015; .HattiThe “Dow and Jones Mubeen Index” of Biodiversity 2019) and ...... road mortal- Reptilian females often travel...... long 225 distances in search of ity is responsibleHUSBANDRY for population declines in some reptilian spe- appropriate sites to deposit eggs (Andrews et al. 2015). Sun cies that live in close. Captive proximity Care of the to Central humans Netted Dragon(Todd ...... et al. 2010). exposure, low vegetation, Shannon areas Plummer of bare 226 soil, and radiant heat The Oriental Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor) is a widely from the road render edges of roads highly attractive nesting PROFILE distributed agamid that ranges from Oman across southern sites (Andrews et al. 2015; Steen et al. 2006), even for species . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 and southeastern Asia to Indo‐China, the Maldives, Réunion, like C. versicolor that do not usually move extensive distances Mauritius, andCOMMENTARY the Seychelles (Wei et al. 2018). These liz- on the ground. Reptiles also are attracted to the favorable ards are very adaptable. The Turtles and Have often Been Watching occur Me in ...... human-altered microclimate on roads (i.e., Eric forGangloff basking) 238 and are vulner- environments BOOKand areas REVIEW of human habitation (Sudasinghe able because they remain immobile when approached by a and Somaweera 2015).. Threatened Calotes Amphibians versicolor of the Worldis found edited throughoutby S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,vehicle J.S. (Heigl Chanson, et N.A.al. 2017). Cox, Bhupathy et al. (2011) stated that India and is absent onlyR. Berridge, from P. Ramani,the trans-Himalayas and B.E. Young ...... (Uetz et in southern India most reptiles Robert Powellare killed 243 by vehicles during al. 2019). the dry season, when cooler temperatures apparently increase CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 At 1732 h onNATURAL 26 September HISTORY RESEARCH2019, we REPORTS found :a Summariesroad- of Publishedthe attraction Reports on Natural to roads. History Although...... the death247 of a single gravid killed adult female NEWBRIEFS C. versicolor ...... (Fig. 1) (SVL ~10 cm, TL garden lizard is...... merely demonstrative 248 of the potential harm ~12 cm) with a clutchEDITORIAL of six INFORMATION eggs on the gravel ...... road that con- of traffic on reptilian populations,...... mitigative 251 measures like FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252 nects the villages of Thengumarhada and Kallampalayam educational sign boards and lowering the frequency and limit- in the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India ing the speed of vehicles should be implemented for tertiary (11.54877°N, 76.96345°E). Although vehicular traffic is less roads, particularly in protected areas, to reduce the road mor- tality of animals. Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchilAcknowledgements erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,This observation quos accullabo. was Ilibus recorded during an excursion to the aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque Sathyamangalamfugiatis maionsequat eumque and Mudumalai Tiger Reserves jointly moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditiaorganized erere nonsedis by the ma sectiaDepartment- of Zoology and Wildlife ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Biology, A.V.C. College (Autonomous) and the World Wide Fund for Nature-India (Nilgiri Landscape). We thank Dr. M. Karthikeyan and Mr. N. Krishnakumar for leading the field trip and the entire batch of Masters in Wildlife Biology 2018–2020 for participating.
Literature Cited Andrews, K.M., T.A. Langen, and R.P.J.H. Struijk. 2015. Reptiles: Overlooked but often at risk from roads, pp. 271–280. In: R. van der Ree, D.J. Smith, and C. Grilo (eds.), Handbook of Road Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, United Kingdom. DOI:10.1002/9781118568170. Fig. 1. Road-killed female Oriental Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor) in Bhupathy, S., G. Srinivas, N.S. Kumar, T. Karthik, and A. Madhivanan. 2011. the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. Photograph by Herpetofaunal mortality due to vehicular traffic in the Western Ghats, India: Puja Deb. A case study. Herpetotropicos 5: 119–126.
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