Crocodiles leave their mouths open for long periods of time, and we don’t really know why. We also take a long tangent on the swiftlet nest business and what wee reptiles are cashing in themselves.
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Main Paper References:
Price C, Ezat MA, Hanzen C, Downs CT. 2022. Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa. Behavioural Processes 203:104772. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104772.
Other Mentioned Papers/Studies:
Quah ESH, Chong JL. 2022. Reptile predators of swiftlets (genus Aerodramus) with a focus on their impact on the swiftlet farming industry. Herpetology Notes.
Wüster, W., & Tillack, F. 2023. On the importance of types and the perils of “en passant” taxonomy: a brief history of the typification of Coluber naja Linnaeus, 1758 (Serpentes: Elapidae) and its implications, with the designation of a lectotype. Zootaxa, 5346(4), 403-419.
Other Links/Mentions:
AmphibiaWeb. 2023. <https://amphibiaweb.org> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed 28 Sep 2023. https://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-scientific_name=Hyperolius+tuberilinguis&rel-scientific_name=contains&include_synonymies=Yes
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Editing and Music:
Podcast edited by Emmy – https://www.fiverr.com/emmyk10
Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson
Species Bi-week theme – Michael Timothy
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048 The Frog After Tomorrow
047 Iguanas Rock
046 Stinky Turtles
045.5 Question - Snake Eyes
045 King Among Cobras
044 Where Those Herps At?
043 Lazy Dragons, Lazy Newts
042 A Christmas Miracle
041 Learned Lizards
040 Complications of Captivity
039 An Appetite for Arboreality
038 A Frog Over Troubled Water
037 Chameleon Comeback
036 Crocodiles of the Mekong
035 Caecilians Caecilians Caecilians
034 Hybrid Pythons
033 Lost in Translocation
032 Duplicitous Dendrobatids
031 From Tortoise Brutality to Snail-eating Snakes
030 Attack of the Toxic Toads
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