Cfreptiles & Amphibians

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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES . ChasingLunch Bullsnakes (Pituophis cateniferBreak: sayi) in Wisconsin: A Reptilian Feast On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis)Monica and Humans Szczupider on Grenada: A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 Honolulu, Hawaii ([email protected]) RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, 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 s a traveling photographer, writer, teacher, and conser- whose educational curricula are conservation-based. I’ve also vationist, I oftenCONSERVATION find myself in ALERT situations where I can worked in primate rescue and rehabilitation in Africa as well A . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 rightfully say aloud, “How. More Than did Mammals I get ...... here?” Though based in as in the U.S. Mammals I know. Reptiles223 I don’t know as Honolulu, Hawaii, for. The the “Dow last Jones eight Index” of years, Biodiversity I have ...... spent the well, but they intrigue and excite me 225 nonetheless. better part of the lastHUSBANDRY decade traveling the world volunteering In mid-July of this year, I was volunteering on a perma- — and taking photos.. Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... culture farm in Brazil, Shannonand was Plummer trading 226 some photography I am educated in the field of anthropology, but have for capoeira lessons (a Brazilian martial art). A day’s worth of PROFILE worked as a teacher for various non-profit organizations planting saplings on a farm outside of the small town of Serra . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234

COMMENTARY Known as the Common Water. The Turtles Snake Have or BeenMilitary Watching Ground Me ...... Snake by English speakers and as the cobra-d’água (= water Eric Gangloff snake) or238 cobra-lisa (= smooth snake) in Portuguese, Erythrolamprus (formerly Liophis) miliaris is known to take a variety of prey, including amphibians (adults, eggs, and larvae), invertebrates, lizards, fish, birds, and BOOKsmall rodents REVIEW (Pizzatto, L. 2003. Reprodução de Liophis miliaris (Serpentes: Colubridae): influência histórica e variações geográficas. Unpublished MSc. Thesis,. ThreatenedUniversidade Amphibians Estadual of the de World Campinas). edited by S.N.Consequently, Stuart, M. Hoffmann, this observation J.S. Chanson, of anN.A. individual Cox, eating a Butter Frog or, as it is known in Brazil, Rã Manteiga (LeptodactylusR. Berridge, latrans P. Ramani,, formerly and B.E. L. Youngocellatus ...... ) is not surprising. Note in the first two of this series Robert of Powell images 243 the use of the snake’s body to help hold the dying frog.  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252

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Grande, State of Bahia, definitely merited a swim. Luckily, I didn’t know the species at the time; the local people nestled among the various tropical fruit and palm trees was called it a “cobra.” Of course, it’s not a true cobra, as cobras a picturesque pond. Every day, we swam in this pond. One do not occur in the Americas; the term instead seems to be day, during lunch, one of the young men who worked on the how Brazilians refer to any snake. farm called us over to the shore. What they did tell me, however, was that this particular As everything in Brazil, whatever it was that he had to species sure loved swimming in the farm’s picturesque pond. show us was a surprise to me until I saw it, as I did not speak But not to worry! As long as I didn’t land on one when I any Portuguese and usually got by (poorly) on my anemic jumped in, I would be fine. Spanish. But what a surprise it was! A snake consuming a To see more nature and wildlife photography along with frog. “Leave her!” I called in my broken Spanish. “I’m going my musings, please visit www.monicaszczupider.com. for my camera!” However, no one was inclined to disturb the snake; Acknowledgements everyone just wanted to watch. A handful of us sat next to a I thank Laurie J. Vitt, William W. Lamar, Marcio Martins, spectacle of nature — a representative of one species thriving, João Luis Gasparini, Otavio A.V. Marques, and Antônio another suffocating, and the hominids enthralled. Argôlo for help in identifying the snake and the frog.

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