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Dorothee
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| 05:30 AM May 21 2017

Dorothee

Germany

>In Bochum (North Rhine Westphalia /Germany) the police saved three wild ducklings this Sunday after their mother presumably was hit by a car. The young ducklings didn’t even think to get of the road, making them a potential threat to drivers. The road where they were found seems to be very dangerous, because there also are reports about foxes, birds, hedgehogs, frogs and snakes found as road kill on this street. I got this from “Tierschutz Euskirchen”.
>In Apolda (Thuringia /Germany) people now found two boxes with two abandoned snakes and one abandoned turtle according to “Tierschutz Euskirchen”.

| 12:04 PM May 20 2017

Dorothee

Germany

“Tierschutz Euskirchen” says that in Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße in Rhineland Palatinate (Germany) a python startled a man riding his bike on a road. As it turned out the reptile was abandoned by its overwhelmed owner. Luckily now a zoo took the snake.

| 09:12 AM Feb 11 2017

Dorothee

Germany

“Tierschutz Euskirchen” says that meanwhile many animal shelters in Germany are overloaded due to so many people abandoning their exotic pets they once bought to have something special and fency – especially snakes, lizards and spiders – only to realize that these animals are no domesticated pets, but wild animals that are very hard to handle due to special needs.
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I couldn’t find an organisation that only tries to save snakes on the brink of extinction, but all the organisations you can read about by checking out the links mentioned below, fight to preserve reptiles and after all snakes are reptiles, too. Some of these organisations even mention that their preservation programs also include snakes.
“http://www.froglife.org/”, “http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/reptile_conservation.cfm” and “http://www.arc-trust.org/”

| 08:00 AM Jul 26 2013

Dorothee

Germany

I once mentioned my relative who has a disease of lungs. She doesn’t mind me telling people about her. Anyway her health condition meanwhile has worsened and thus the doctors finally decided to try a therapy that involves the venom of a snake. They think that this might help and she says that so far this therapy didn’t have any negative side-effects.

| 01:49 PM Apr 08 2013

Dorothee

Germany

I just wanted to post this interesting information somewhere and decided to post it under the photo of this cold-blooded reptile: I know most people think that dinosaurs were more related to reptiles – like snakes – than to birds, but in fact they were not at all. They may have the same ancestry, but most reptiles developed at the same time as dinosaurs, while birds descent from two-legged dinosaurs. I already knew that. Still I was surprised when I saw the documentary movies “The Real Jurassic Park” and “Prehistoric Park Episode 4 and 5” in which they stated that dinosaurs and birds had more in common than dinosaurs and reptiles. Like birds and unlike reptiles they were warm-blooded – or at least that would be the only explanation why they could dominate over mammals for millions of years -, they built nests made of twigs, fossils make us think that they cared for their chicks – of all reptiles only crocodiles care for their young ones, but only for a very short amount of time -, judging by fossils their chicks must have been protected by downy feathers, most grown-up two-legged dinosaurs must have had feathers too, the structure of their leggs resembled the feet of ratites, like ostriches or emus and their intelligence must have been comparable to some specimens of birds rather than crocodiles, turtles, tortoises or snakes. After all for example velociraptor hunted in a pack and many other two-legged dinosaurs also lived in herds, while there isn’t a single reptile that has something like a real family-life. Scientists also found out that dinosaur-eyes must have worked like bird-eyes; i.e. they must have seen colours, which draws people to the conclusion that baby-dinos must have considered the first living creature they saw as their mother, while most reptiles don’t recognize either of their parents and actually don’t even care about the siblings with which they hatch.

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