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Further the education of the membership and the general public in care and captive propagation reptiles and amphibians; Educate the members and the general public in the ecological role of reptiles and amphibians; Promote the study and conservation of reptiles and amphibians.

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May is Survey Month

Herp Mini-Survey – Saturday June 3, 2006

This is a mini-herping survey for those who wish to try out a field experience without straying too far from home. It will take place on the Haig Property about 45 minutes north of 694 from 9:00am to about 4:00pm. The property is oak forest and wetlands so please dress appropriately. The bugs shouldn’t be bad but there are ticks, so it is best to wear long pants and a T-shirt with a removable long sleeve shirt. Bring your own bug spray and a change of clothes for after the “survey”. Bring high boots or waders if you want to do pond work, old shoes are ok for walking in the marsh but bring a change of shoes and socks for afterwards.

The house will be open for facilities, and we will provide water and sodas. Bring your own snacks and lunches, grills will be available. Detailed maps will be available at the June Meeting as well as sign up sheets for the survey and carpooling.

Although the emphasis is on demonstrating various field herping techniques it will be interesting to see what actual herps are discovered. Hope to see you there.

-Bruce & Nancy Haig

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News, Notes, & Announcements Notice:

There will be no adoptions

at the July meeting.

June Hands-On

Como Water Fest, June 17, 12-4.

Contact Jan Larson, Education Chair for more information.

Wanted:

Volunteer to be a Sign Language Interpreter at MHS’s general meeting each month. Please contact a board member if you’re interested!

May Adoption Report

By Sarah Richard, Adoption Chair

Great meeting! There were multiple applications for many of the animals.

The Corn snake was hotly contested as was the Bearded. The two Boas each found a permanent home as well. Liz R. had a home waiting for the Iguana (YEA Liz!) and the two Sulcatas and the Red Eared Slider went into “foster”.

Once again, thanks to all who helped out. You make my job possible.

Thanks to the following people who brought cakes for our 25th Anniversary Snakey Cake! It looked (and tasted) awesome!

Heather Ingbretson Jennifer Hensley Kelly Johnson Ed Austin Christina Danathar Brandy Snyder Amanda & Dave DeWitt Donna Calander Jake Jacobsen Asra Halvorson Mick Dahlberg Andrea Brauchs Pete Kazeck Bruce Haig (made snake’s head)

May Critter of the Month Nathan Schuak Children’s Python

McPeles (Ann Mckenzie) Aldabran Tortoise

May Raffle Donors Carmelita Knudson Laurie Mahling

Dan Keyler & Cheryl Snake cage and frog coasters

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May’s cover photo was taken by Allen Blake Sheldon. The following is a letter to the editor: The cover photo of Megan Strand was certainly interesting to see after all these years. I like your cropping a lot better than the original (attached is a low-res). I thought I should clear up a couple things about the photo: I took the photo at the MHS picnic in 1986 and entered it in the contest of 1988 with the title “Snake Charmer”.

Thanks for getting the Newsletter out in time for it to get down here to Lock & Dam 6 before the meeting.

Best regards, Blake ( Allen Blake Sheldon, Trempealeau, WI)

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May Speaker Review MHS’s 25th Anniversary

by Ellen Heck, Recording Secretary

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he birthday bash saw the return of held March 13-15, 1981 and attracted old members and we were fortunate people from all over the region and Canada. to have several of them give talks.

The first speaker was Laddie Elwell from Bemidji. In 1980, she was relatively new to Minnesota and a teacher at Bemidji State University. She found that there didn’t seem to be too many people who knew about herps, so she organized a reptile symposium at the Bald Eagle Center in Cass Lake. It was

Bruce Delles introduced the next speaker, Delvin Jones, the first president of MHS and a major force in getting it founded. Del had worked for Honeywell in Minnesota from 19631970 before being “banished” to Massachusetts for 10 years. While there, he worked in the herp collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. A grad student introduced him to the Left: Laddie Elwell, Above: Bruce Delles, Massachusetts Herp Society. While Below: Delvin Jones there, he developed some ideas about how to make a herp society work (and these should be very familiar to our members, since they still operate today): 1. Speakers at the meeting are a necessity 2. A regular newsletter needs to be sent out 3. Have a library available for members 4. Use rodent sales both as a service to members and to provide income 5. Have a relatively permanent meeting site to make it easier for members to attend

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(MHS Anniversary Meeting continued) was a little too close for comfort, particularly when it came to the spitting 6. Need to have a tie-in with an institu- cobra. Jeff LeClere made an impression tion when, at a young age, he expounded on the virtues of northern water snakes When he got back to Minnesota, Del during Critter of the Month. started asking around, to see if there was any kind of herp society locally.

The third speaker was Jim Gerholdt.

Apparently, his 3-piece suits and pocket Jim was the newsletter editor for 6 protector made an impression on others. years and set up the library and the By the time the symposium was held in adoption program. He used to type the 1981, enough people were aware of him newsletters on an old manual typewriter and his quest that he was asked to give that eventually went at the White Snake a talk. He also sent out a questionnaire about interest in a herp society, to which 14 people responded. About this time Phil Regal offered the Bell Museum as a mailing site. On April 10th, 16 people showed up at the Bell for the organizational meeting. At this meeting, three committees were setup: one to formulate the constitution and bylaws, a membership committee and a nominating committee. The first official meeting was held on May 1st in the chemistry hall, with about 35 people attending. That first meeting resulted in 26 memberships. This hit the one hundred mark in 1982 and has grown steadily since to our current level of 306 members.

Over the next several months, a logo contest held, officers were elected, rodent sales started up and the newsletter sent out. By August, the positions of Member at Large were added. The library was started up as well, with seven books. In 1982, the state fair display was initiated and the first field survey with the DNR was held in 1984.

The first Midwest Symposium was held in 1985, due in large part to the efforts of then-president Fran Frisch.

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Over the years, several meetings stand out for Del. One involved a very nasty reticulated python. Another was a cobra talk. Apparently, the distance from the speaker and his cobras to the front row

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Sale and was famous for the “ night before the deadline” method of writing.

He then showed slides of herping in the southwest, including the tried and true method of catching lizards – letting them bite your finger and bagging them while they are thus occupied. Jim also told tales of the “Type A” Mojave rattlesnake and the drunken cicada.

The next speaker was Dan Keyler, another member of the intrepid quartet.

Dan is well known as a snake-bite

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authority and has regaled us before with tales of Darwin Award attempts. He also showed several slides covering 20 years of MHS history, including Del “from the shiny side” and why bottomless bags are not good on field surveys.

He also brought up the fact that in 1989, Minnesota finally removed the bounty on timber rattlesnakes, being the last state to do so, despite the fact that they were a protected species. MHS members were instrumental in getting the legislation passed.

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Delvin Jones

Next was a video from Barry Oldfield, who was unable to attend in person.

Barry does a lot of herping in New Mexico, and is particularly interested in collared lizards. He also mentioned an early field survey that netted Minnesota Fats, the 67lb record snapping turtle.

The last speaker was Todd Turner, a relative newcomer to MHS, speaking about his experiences. He joined about 3 years ago as a junior in high school after seeing MHS at the Renaissance Festival. Since then, he has adopted a pair of bearded dragons, helped at the symposium and the Renaissance, and headed up this year’s White Snake Sale (although he blames this last on the fact that he “can’t say no”). Oh, and he graduated from high school as well.

Founding Members Fred and Liz Bozman, Delvin Jones, Jim Gerholdt, Bruce Delles

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‘Snakes on a Plane’

Reptile performers of the first class.

By Susan King, Times Staff Writer

Supplying the reptiles for the suspense thriller “Snakes on a Plane,” which opens Aug. 18, was a dream job for Jules Sylvester. The snake wrangler, whose Los Angeles-based company is called Reptile Rentals Inc., has been working with reptiles for the last 39 years.

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Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agent escorting a witness on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles when assassins release hundreds of deadly snakes, Sylvester drove some 450 snakes from Los Angeles to the Vancouver location — “I think there were 27 different species of snakes,” he says.

But only 60 were used at one time.

“You have very controlled areas [on the plane] where you were shooting,” says Sylvester. “We mixed it with computer graphics and animatronic snakes.”

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He also had cobras and rattlesnakes on the set for isolated shots that Sylvester describes as “quite terrifying. We got some tremendous stuff from one of the cobras,” says Sylvester. “He was very, very aggressive. He got frightened of his reflection in the window and hissed.”

Movie work, it seems, can be tiring for snakes. “They get shagged out,” says Sylvester. “If they get handled too much they get a bit floppy. They looked tired, and you don’t want to stress them out.

That’s why you take doubles and triples, so you can put them on the back burner. You give them a week off so they can relax and eat.”

“I was trained at the Nairobi Snake Park in Kenya,” says Sylvester. “I lived Because there were so many action sequences, the actors never mingled in the bush most of my life, which is with the real snakes for fear of tramwhy I ended up catching snakes.” pling the reptiles. “We kept it to stunt Sylvester keeps at least 150 snakes at people and extras,” he says. http://www.calendarlive.com/movies his company at all times. Only about Sylvester prefers to use corn and milk Snakes on a Plane opens August 18!

10% are venomous “because I have to snakes for films. “They are about 3 to 4 Mark your calendars! have actors hold them. So 90% are feet long. They look scary but are very manageable for actors.” gentle. They climb well, and you can For “Snakes on a Plane,” which stars dangle them around things.”

And, in anticipation of this fall’s release, you can get a “snakes flying a plane” t-shirt! Super fly. It has absolutely nothing to do with the movie, but as the site says, “If there’s better way to pretend to be an airplane with snakes flying it then I’d like to hear it. Stick your arms out and make all kinds of weird racket because this plane isn’t coming down until these snakes get tired of flying it.” What’s better than that? Check out: http://topatoco.com/snakes.htm.

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‘Third eye’ of Lizard sheds light on evolution of color vision

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ent colors of light and process that information within the same cell.

According to the researchers, when the lizard’s third eye sees blue light, the

By Audrey Huang blue pigment triggers a molecule called Johns Hopkins Medicine gustducin, which is very similar to a molecule found in human photorecepLizards have given Johns Hopkins tors as well as in the lizard’s lateral researchers a tantalizing clue to the evoeyes, those on the sides of its head. But lutionary origins of light-sensing cells when the lizard’s third eye sees green in people and other species. light, the green pigment triggers a different molecule called Go, known as Published in the March 17 issue of “G-other,” which also signals light Science, their study describes how the “side-blotched” lizard’s so-called third, responses in the light-sensing cells of or parietal, eye distinguishes two differ- the scallop and other creatures without a backbone. That Go is found in spineent colors, blue and green, possibly to less creatures suggests it is the evolutell the time of day. tionarily more ancient light-triggering Specialized nerve cells in that eye, signal. which looks more like a spot on the Although gustducin and Go are dif-ferlizard’s forehead, use two types of ent molecules, they are similar and conmolecular signals to sense light: those found only in simpler animals, like scal- sidered “related” proteins. However, gustducin and Go activate different lops, and those found only in more molecular pathways that work against complex animals, like humans. each other physiologically. Blue light Although the blue-green color compari- and gustducin generate an “off” son method used by the parietal eye is response in the nerve cell, while green not one shared by humans, it does light and Go generate an “on” response. reveal one potential step in the evolu“It may seem strange to have two tion of color vision, the Johns Hopkins opposing signals in the same cell,” says researchers say. the study’s senior author, King-Wai Human light-reception cells responsiYau, a professor in the Solomon H. ble for color vision are called cone cells Snyder Department of Neuroscience, or photoreceptors, and they contain only “but the unique mechanism renders one kind of pigment — red, green or these parietal photoreceptors most blue — per cell. A color image results active at dawn and dusk.” when light-triggered signals in the three “So incorporating two different pigdifferent types of cone cells are compared by other nerve cells in the retina ments and two separate signaling molecules in one cell may have been an ecoas well as the brain. nomical way, in a primitive eye with The lizard’s parietal eye photoreceptors relatively few cell types, to tell the trancontain two pigments per cell, blue and sitions of the day based on changes in green. Having two different pigments the spectrum of sunlight,” continues allows the cell to respond to two differ- Chih-Ying Su, the first author of the

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study and a former neuroscience graduate student at Johns Hopkins.

The researchers propose that the lizard’s parietal eye photoreceptor cells — by sharing features found in human photoreceptors as well as those found in simpler organisms like the scallop — represent a “missing link” between the light-sensing apparatus in lower animals and ours.

It turns out that some frogs and fish also have a spot on their foreheads that might play the role of a light-sensing third eye. Yau says he hopes to pursue these structures to obtain more clues about how our photoreceptor cells, the rods and cones, came about. He’s most curious, he says, about how the same function can be achieved in different ways in different animals.

The researchers were funded by the National Eye Institute and the Allene Reuss Memorial Trust.

Authors on the paper are Su, Dong-Gen Luo, His-Wen Liao and Yau, all of Johns Hopkins; Akihisa Terakita and Yoshinori Shichida, of Kyoto University; and Manija Kazmi and Thomas Sakmar, of the Rockefeller University. http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2006/08ma y06/thirdeye.html

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South African Researchers Discover New Deadly Parasite

“This serves as further confirmation that Africa, India and Madagascar were once one big continent,” he said.

The head of the team, zoology professor Louis du Preez from North-West University in Potchefstroom, said: “This group of parasites is a very old group and its closest relatives are a parasite we have in Africa and one in India.

Though the parasites are a welcome dis- “If the chytrid fungus was present and covery, the research team is more inter- they experienced extinctions, it would ested in what they explain about frogs, be a disaster.” their main focus.

Though it will be another month until They traveled to Madagascar to deterthe tissue samples are completely mine whether the chytrid fungus, which processed, the team said there was no

causes a skin disease that has wiped out entire frog populations all over the world, was present there.

The scientists determined the approxi“Madagascar is one of the unique spots CAPE TIMES (Cape Town, S Africa) 27 mate age of the parasites by conducting in the world for frogs - they have over March 06 (Rebecca Rosenberg) molecular studies.

300 species of which only one is found outside the country,” said Du Preez.

Four new species and one new genus of He said that “this will fill in another parasites that infect frogs were discovpart of a big puzzle in understanding “The frogs are a big tourist attraction in ered by a South African research team parasites on a global scale”.

Madagascar. on a recent trip to Madagascar.

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indication that the fungus was present as there were no frogs showing symptoms of the disease.

“The next step would be to keep the deadly fungus out of Madagascar,” he said.

The research team is trying to prove that the chytrid fungus spread to other parts of the world when South Africa exported the African Clawed Frog, or platanna, in the 1930s as a pregnancy test.

Doctors would inject a woman’s urine into the frog and if she was pregnant the hormones in her urine would cause the frog to spawn within hours.

They believe some of the exported frogs escaped into the wild where they spread the disease.

“We believe it originated in Africa because frogs here have a local resistance to the fungus, and we have the oldest frog specimens with the disease anywhere in the world,” said zoologist Che Weldon, a member of the North-West University research team.

As a result of the findings, the team started drafting an import and export regulation document that will help prevent the spread of the chytrid fungus or other deadly diseases.

“This fungus is really pathogenic. It can wipe out entire species as it has in Australia.”

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=v n20060327004346417C227508&set_id= - from Herpnews 087/06

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MHS Treasurer's Report

Prepared by Nancy Haig, Treasurer

For April 2006 Beginning Checkbook Balance: . . . . . . . . . . . 15,624.43

Income: Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.00 Library Fines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Raffle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.00 Adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.00 Rodent Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529.00 Hands Ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.72 Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.00 Other* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Total Income: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,008.22

Expense: Newsletter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388.30 Misc. Printing and Postage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00 Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Hands-On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Refreshments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Rodent Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Adoption Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Midwest costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Donations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Other* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.00 Total Expense: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598.30

Cash Increase/(Decrease): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409.92

Ending Checkbook Balance: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,034.35 Placement of Cash Holdings

Checking Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,034.35 Cash on Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.00

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,189.35

Treasurer’s Notes: Income: Hands-Ons Fish Fair, Red Wing School, Science Museum. Other: $10 Newsletter Ad Expense: $160 Bulk Mail Permit

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P a g e r e H v erpe u The Winner for the May 2006 Favorite Herp Survey: the DAY GECKO!

Tie for 2nd: Salamander and Uromastyx 3rd Alligator 4th with only one vote: Newt

Juve Interview Name: Daniel Knudson Age: 16

Lives with: Mom, Dad, and pets (snakes)

How long have you been going to MHS meetings? over two years

What’s best about MHS? You learn new things from the speakers What’s your favorite herp? Snakes

Next herp you would like to get? I have a boa; the next one I want to get is a corn snake.

What are your pets’ names?

My snake - Nooh My mom’s snake - Koa Dogs - Shelly & Lila Guinea pig - Giny

We had 18 Juve Voters. Some of the comments on why they voted for the Day Gecko: Vashti: Cause I like it.

Nathon: Because I like the coloring of geckos. I like the shape of their body.

Juses: Because it can climb walls.

Jessica: Geckos are awesome!

Marcy: Because I have a gecko.

Alanna: I love geckos. They rock!

Sam: Because I have been around geckos most of my life and have been more interactive with Day Geckos.

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June Herp-Help Tip:

Don’t put your terrarium in a window that gets direct sunlight as you can overheat and possibly harm or kill your animal this way.

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