Tortoise Personality Profile, was: Re: correction: it appears that California laws do require permits to possess herps

Long ago and far away ... well, actually in the 1950's in Palmdale, California ... I had four adult tortoises and several juveniles for pets. I think one was given to me by a neighbor who found it in their yard. It already had a hole drilled in its shell, so it was probably already someone's pe

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Folks -- I thought it was interesting that the California Herps website mentioned "protected" and "non-protected" herps, which meaning is still somewhat unclear to me and worthy of additional investigation. But a look at the California Fish and Game Code makes it abundantly clear that possessi

Re: Reptiles & learned behavior

Patricia writes: > I have experiences teaching children about reptiles, and I think the fear > factor is largely learned, but sometimes for good reasons. A while back I > had a classroom of 6th graders in my zoo educational building at the Bronx > Zoo. I brought in a python, and all the kids go

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Reptiles & learned behavior

I have experiences teaching children about reptiles, and I think the fear factor is largely learned, but sometimes for good reasons. A while back I had a classroom of 6th graders in my zoo educational building at the Bronx Zoo. I brought in a python, and all the kids got excited, until they heard t

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Re: correction: it appears that California laws do require permits to possess herps

Brit... We have captive-bred red and yellow-footed tortoises. People are quite surprised to see how much "personality" they have after spending some time around them. Remember also, Steven Spielberg made a trip to Galapagos and the tortoise breeding project at the Darwin Station on Isla Santa

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Re: correction: it appears that California laws do require permits to possess herps

Yes, the most pressing herp being the very protected desert tortoise. Many construction monitoring projects I have been on as project biologist require measures to be in place for the protection of fence lizards, iguanas, and in particular some rare snakes such as the San Francisco garter snake, w