Cfreptiles & Amphibians

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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES Notes. Chasing on Bullsnakes Kashmir(Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Rock Agamas, Laudakia On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 tuberculata. The Shared History of Treeboas (Gray (Corallus grenadensis ) 1827),and Humans on Grenada: from the Kalesar A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 WildlifeRESEARCH ARTICLES Sanctuary in Northern India . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . TheRitesh Knight Vishwakarma, Anole (Anolis equestris Debaprasad) in Florida Sengupta, Lynette Gomes, and Agatha Cheran Momin ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun- 248001, Uttarakhand, India ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225 he range of the Kashmir Rock Agama (Laudakia tuber- Kalesar Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Haryana State, India Tculata) extendsHUSBANDRY from eastern Afghanistan and northwest- (30°27’14.46”N, 77°27’6.98”E). Habitat at the site is tropical ern Pakistan through. KashmirCaptive Care of and the Central Uttar Netted Pradesh Dragon ...... (India) to moist dry deciduous forest Shannon (Champion Plummer 226 and Seth 1968) and southwestern NepalPROFILE and Tibet (Baig et al. 2012; Uetz et al. the ambient temperature at the time of our observations was 2018) with an elevational. Kraig Adler:range A Lifetime of 150–3,600 Promoting Herpetology m (Bahuguna ...... about 32 °C. These individuals Michael L. Treglia were 234 foraging on flowers of 2008). Habitat requirementsCOMMENTARY include fissures in rocks, often the Madagascar Periwinkle (Catheranthus roseus), and natural- near streams, but these. The lizards Turtles Havereadily Been Watching exploit Me edificarian ...... situ- ized species in India. We considered Eric Gangloff 238 the consumption of C. ations where cracks in walls, spaces under eaves and between roseus flowers noteworthy, as the flowers are usually consid- BOOK REVIEW slate slabs on roofs are. Threatened analogues Amphibians of rock of the Worldcrevices edited in by S.N.natural Stuart, M. Hoffmann,ered mildly J.S. Chanson, poisonous N.A. Cox, and unpalatable because they contain conditions (Waltner 1991;R. Berridge, Baig P. Ramani,et al. and2012). B.E. Young Nevertheless, ...... numerous alkaloids, although Robert thesePowell 243plants are consumed by despite its relative abundance and sometimes close association some herbivores when alternatives are unavailable (e.g., Dugé  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 with humans, we lackNATURAL even preliminaryHISTORY RESEARCH information REPORTS :about Summaries of Publishedde Bernonville Reports on Natural et al.History 2017)...... This observation 247 represents the many aspects of the species’NEWBRIEFS natural ...... history (Waltner 1991). first record of L...... tuberculata in the lower 248 Shivalik Hill Range At 1233 h on 11EDITORIAL October INFORMATION 2016, we observed ...... twelve L. of Haryana State and the first...... record 251of this omnivorous spe-  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252 tuberculata on rocky substrate (Fig. 1) at the Adi-Badrinath, cies consuming flowers of C. roseus.

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Fig. 1. A Kashmir Rock Agama (Laudakia tuberculata) basking on a rock. The purple flowers of the Madagascar Periwinkle (Catheranthus roseus) can be seen to the right of the image. Also note the flower stem in the mouth of the lizard. Photograph by Ritesh Vishwakarma.

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