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MHS’s 25th Anniversary Speaker Review!Thanks to the Snakey Cake Makers!

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The Purpose of the Minnesota Herpetological Society is to:

• Further the education of the membership and the general public in care and captive propagationof 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.

The Minnesota Herpetological Society is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. Membership is opento all individuals with an interest in amphibians and reptiles. The Minnesota Herpetological SocietyNewsletter is published monthly to provide its members with information concerning the society’sactivities and a media for exchanging information, opinions and resources.

General Meetings are held at Borlaug Hall, Room 335 on the St. Paul Campus of the University ofMinnesota, on the first Friday of each month (unless there is a holiday conflict). The meeting startsat 7:00pm and lasts about three hours. Please check the MHS Voice mail for changes in schedulesor cancellations.

Submissions to the NewsletterAds or Notices must be submitted no later than the night of the General Meeting to be included inthe next issue. Longer articles will be printed as time and space allows and should be in electronicfile format if possible. See inside back cover for ad rates.Submissions may be sent to:

The Minnesota Herpetological SocietyAttn: Newsletter EditorBell Museum of Natural History10 Church St. SE.Minneapolis, MN 55455.0104

Copyright 2006, Minnesota Herpetological Society. Except where noted, contents may be reproduced for non-profit, non-commercial use only. All material must be reproduced without change. Proper credit will be given including the author/pho-

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This is a mini-herping survey for those who wish to try out a field experiencewithout straying too far from home. It will take place on the Haig Property about45 minutes north of 694 from 9:00am to about 4:00pm. The property is oak forestand wetlands so please dress appropriately. The bugs shouldn’t be bad but thereare ticks, so it is best to wear long pants and a T-shirt with a removable longsleeve shirt. Bring your own bug spray and a change of clothes for after the “sur-vey”. Bring high boots or waders if you want to do pond work, old shoes are okfor 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. Bringyour own snacks and lunches, grills will be available. Detailed maps will beavailable at the June Meeting as well as sign up sheets for the survey and car-pooling.

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

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News, Notes, & Announcements

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Heather IngbretsonJennifer HensleyKelly JohnsonEd AustinChristina DanatharBrandy SnyderAmanda & Dave DeWittDonna CalanderJake JacobsenAsra HalvorsonMick DahlbergAndrea BrauchsPete KazeckBruce Haig (made snake’shead)

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Como Water Fest, June 17, 12-4.Contact Jan Larson, Education Chairfor more information.

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Volunteer to be a Sign LanguageInterpreter at MHS’s general meetingeach month. Please contact a boardmember if you’re interested!

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Nathan SchuakChildren’s Python

McPeles (Ann Mckenzie)Aldabran Tortoise

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Carmelita Knudson

Laurie Mahling

Dan Keyler & CherylSnake cage and frog coasters

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May’s cover photo was taken by AllenBlake Sheldon. The following is a letterto the editor:

The cover photo of Megan Strand wascertainly interesting to see after allthese years. I like your cropping a lotbetter than the original (attached is alow-res). I thought I should clear up acouple things about the photo: I tookthe photo at the MHS picnic in 1986and entered it in the contest of 1988with the title “Snake Charmer”.

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

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

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By Sarah Richard, Adoption Chair

Great meeting! There were multipleapplications for many of the animals.The Corn snake was hotly contested aswas the Bearded. The two Boas eachfound a permanent home as well. LizR. had a home waiting for the Iguana(YEA Liz!) and the two Sulcatas andthe Red Eared Slider went into “foster”.

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

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The birthday bash saw the return ofold members and we were fortunate

to have several of them give talks.

The first speaker was Laddie Elwellfrom Bemidji. In 1980, she was rela-tively new to Minnesota and a teacherat Bemidji State University. She foundthat there didn’t seem to be too manypeople who knew about herps, so sheorganized a reptile symposium at theBald Eagle Center in Cass Lake. It was

held March 13-15, 1981 and attractedpeople from all over the region andCanada.

Bruce Delles introduced the next speak-er, Delvin Jones, the first president ofMHS and a major force in getting itfounded. Del had worked forHoneywell in Minnesota from 1963-1970 before being “banished” toMassachusetts for 10 years. Whilethere, he worked in the herp collectionof the Museum of ComparativeZoology at Harvard University. A gradstudent introduced him to theMassachusetts Herp Society. Whilethere, he developed some ideas abouthow to make a herp society work (andthese should be very familiar to ourmembers, since they still operatetoday):

1. Speakers at the meeting are a neces-sity2. A regular newsletter needs to be sentout3. Have a library available for members4. Use rodent sales both as a service tomembers and to provide income5. Have a relatively permanent meetingsite to make it easier for members toattend


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Left: Laddie Elwell, Above: Bruce Delles,Below: Delvin Jones

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6. Need to have a tie-in with an institu-tion

When he got back to Minnesota, Delstarted asking around, to see if therewas any kind of herp society locally.Apparently, his 3-piece suits and pocketprotector made an impression on others.By the time the symposium was held in1981, enough people were aware of himand his quest that he was asked to givea talk. He also sent out a questionnaireabout interest in a herp society, towhich 14 people responded. About thistime Phil Regal offered the BellMuseum as a mailing site. On April10th, 16 people showed up at the Bellfor the organizational meeting. At thismeeting, three committees were setup:one to formulate the constitution andbylaws, a membership committee and anominating committee. The first officialmeeting was held on May 1st in thechemistry hall, with about 35 peopleattending. That first meeting resulted in26 memberships. This hit the one hun-dred mark in 1982 and has grownsteadily since to our current level of306 members.

Over the next several months, a logocontest held, officers were elected,rodent sales started up and the newslet-ter sent out. By August, the positions ofMember at Large were added. Thelibrary was started up as well, withseven books. In 1982, the state fair dis-play was initiated and the first field sur-vey with the DNR was held in 1984.The first Midwest Symposium was heldin 1985, due in large part to the effortsof then-president Fran Frisch.

Over the years, several meetings standout for Del. One involved a very nastyreticulated python. Another was a cobratalk. Apparently, the distance from thespeaker and his cobras to the front row

was a little too close for comfort, partic-ularly when it came to the spittingcobra. Jeff LeClere made an impressionwhen, at a young age, he expounded onthe virtues of northern water snakesduring Critter of the Month.

The third speaker was Jim Gerholdt.Jim was the newsletter editor for 6years and set up the library and theadoption program. He used to type thenewsletters on an old manual typewriterthat eventually went at the White Snake

Sale and was famous for the “ nightbefore the deadline” method of writing.He then showed slides of herping in thesouthwest, including the tried and truemethod of catching lizards – lettingthem bite your finger and bagging themwhile they are thus occupied. Jim alsotold tales of the “Type A” Mojave rat-tlesnake 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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(MHS Anniversary Meeting continued)

Our Snakey Cake!

authority and has regaled us before withtales of Darwin Award attempts. Healso showed several slides covering 20years of MHS history, including Del“from the shiny side” and why bottom-less bags are not good on field surveys.He also brought up the fact that in1989, Minnesota finally removed thebounty on timber rattlesnakes, being thelast state to do so, despite the fact thatthey were a protected species. MHSmembers were instrumental in gettingthe legislation passed.

Next was a video from Barry Oldfield,who was unable to attend in person.Barry does a lot of herping in NewMexico, and is particularly interested incollared lizards. He also mentioned anearly field survey that netted MinnesotaFats, the 67lb record snapping turtle.

The last speaker was Todd Turner, a rel-ative newcomer to MHS, speakingabout his experiences. He joined about3 years ago as a junior in high schoolafter seeing MHS at the RenaissanceFestival. Since then, he has adopted apair of bearded dragons, helped at thesymposium and the Renaissance, andheaded up this year’s White Snake Sale(although he blames this last on the factthat he “can’t say no”). Oh, and hegraduated from high school as well.


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

Delvin Jones

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By Susan King, Times Staff Writer

Supplying the reptiles for the suspensethriller “Snakes on a Plane,” whichopens Aug. 18, was a dream job forJules Sylvester. The snake wrangler,whose Los Angeles-based company iscalled Reptile Rentals Inc., has beenworking with reptiles for the last 39years.

“I was trained at the Nairobi SnakePark in Kenya,” says Sylvester. “I livedin the bush most of my life, which iswhy I ended up catching snakes.”

Sylvester keeps at least 150 snakes athis company at all times. Only about10% are venomous “because I have tohave actors hold them. So 90% aremanageable for actors.”

For “Snakes on a Plane,” which stars

Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agentescorting a witness on a flight fromHawaii to Los Angeles when assassinsrelease hundreds of deadly snakes,Sylvester drove some 450 snakes fromLos Angeles to the Vancouver location— “I think there were 27 differentspecies of snakes,” he says.

But only 60 were used at one time.“You have very controlled areas [on theplane] where you were shooting,” saysSylvester. “We mixed it with computergraphics and animatronic snakes.”

Because there were so many actionsequences, the actors never mingledwith the real snakes for fear of tram-pling the reptiles. “We kept it to stuntpeople and extras,” he says.

Sylvester prefers to use corn and milksnakes for films. “They are about 3 to 4feet long. They look scary but are verygentle. They climb well, and you candangle them around things.”

He also had cobras and rattlesnakes onthe set for isolated shots that Sylvesterdescribes as “quite terrifying. We gotsome tremendous stuff from one of thecobras,” says Sylvester. “He was very,very aggressive. He got frightened ofhis reflection in the window andhissed.”

Movie work, it seems, can be tiring forsnakes. “They get shagged out,” saysSylvester. “If they get handled too muchthey get a bit floppy. They looked tired,and you don’t want to stress them out.That’s why you take doubles andtriples, so you can put them on the backburner. You give them a week off sothey can relax and eat.”

http://www.calendarlive.com/movies

Snakes on a Plane opens August 18!Mark your calendars!


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By Audrey HuangJohns Hopkins Medicine

Lizards have given Johns Hopkinsresearchers a tantalizing clue to the evo-lutionary origins of light-sensing cellsin people and other species.

Published in the March 17 issue ofScience, their study describes how the“side-blotched” lizard’s so-called third,or parietal, eye distinguishes two differ-ent colors, blue and green, possibly totell the time of day.

Specialized nerve cells in that eye,which looks more like a spot on thelizard’s forehead, use two types ofmolecular signals to sense light: thosefound only in simpler animals, like scal-lops, and those found only in morecomplex animals, like humans.

Although the blue-green color compari-son method used by the parietal eye isnot one shared by humans, it doesreveal one potential step in the evolu-tion of color vision, the Johns Hopkinsresearchers say.

Human light-reception cells responsi-ble for color vision are called cone cellsor photoreceptors, and they contain onlyone kind of pigment — red, green orblue — per cell. A color image resultswhen light-triggered signals in the threedifferent types of cone cells are com-pared by other nerve cells in the retinaas well as the brain.

The lizard’s parietal eye photoreceptorscontain two pigments per cell, blue andgreen. Having two different pigmentsallows the cell to respond to two differ-

ent colors of light and process thatinformation within the same cell.

According to the researchers, when thelizard’s third eye sees blue light, theblue pigment triggers a molecule calledgustducin, which is very similar to amolecule found in human photorecep-tors as well as in the lizard’s lateraleyes, those on the sides of its head. Butwhen the lizard’s third eye sees greenlight, the green pigment triggers a dif-ferent molecule called Go, known as“G-other,” which also signals lightresponses in the light-sensing cells ofthe scallop and other creatures withouta backbone. That Go is found in spine-less creatures suggests it is the evolu-tionarily more ancient light-triggeringsignal.

Although gustducin and Go are dif-fer-ent molecules, they are similar and con-sidered “related” proteins. However,gustducin and Go activate differentmolecular pathways that work againsteach other physiologically. Blue lightand gustducin generate an “off”response in the nerve cell, while greenlight and Go generate an “on” response.

“It may seem strange to have twoopposing signals in the same cell,” saysthe study’s senior author, King-WaiYau, a professor in the Solomon H.Snyder Department of Neuroscience,“but the unique mechanism rendersthese parietal photoreceptors mostactive at dawn and dusk.”

“So incorporating two different pig-ments and two separate signaling mole-cules in one cell may have been an eco-nomical way, in a primitive eye withrelatively few cell types, to tell the tran-sitions of the day based on changes inthe spectrum of sunlight,” continuesChih-Ying Su, the first author of the

study and a former neuroscience gradu-ate student at Johns Hopkins.

The researchers propose that thelizard’s parietal eye photoreceptor cells— by sharing features found in humanphotoreceptors as well as those found insimpler organisms like the scallop —represent a “missing link” between thelight-sensing apparatus in lower animalsand ours.

It turns out that some frogs and fishalso have a spot on their foreheads thatmight play the role of a light-sensingthird eye. Yau says he hopes to pursuethese structures to obtain more cluesabout how our photoreceptor cells, therods and cones, came about. He’s mostcurious, he says, about how the samefunction can be achieved in differentways in different animals.

The researchers were funded by theNational Eye Institute and the AlleneReuss Memorial Trust.

Authors on the paper are Su, Dong-GenLuo, His-Wen Liao and Yau, all ofJohns Hopkins; Akihisa Terakita andYoshinori Shichida, of KyotoUniversity; and Manija Kazmi andThomas Sakmar, of the RockefellerUniversity.

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2006/08may06/thirdeye.html


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CAPE TIMES (Cape Town, S Africa) 27March 06 (Rebecca Rosenberg)

Four new species and one new genus ofparasites that infect frogs were discov-ered by a South African research teamon a recent trip to Madagascar.

The head of the team, zoology professorLouis du Preez from North-WestUniversity in Potchefstroom, said: “Thisgroup of parasites is a very old groupand its closest relatives are a parasitewe have in Africa and one in India.

“This serves as further confirmationthat Africa, India and Madagascar wereonce one big continent,” he said.

The scientists determined the approxi-mate age of the parasites by conductingmolecular studies.

He said that “this will fill in anotherpart of a big puzzle in understandingparasites on a global scale”.

Though the parasites are a welcome dis-covery, the research team is more inter-ested in what they explain about frogs,their main focus.

They traveled to Madagascar to deter-mine whether the chytrid fungus, which

causes a skin disease that has wiped outentire frog populations all over theworld, was present there.

“Madagascar is one of the unique spotsin the world for frogs - they have over300 species of which only one is foundoutside the country,” said Du Preez.

“The frogs are a big tourist attraction inMadagascar.

“If the chytrid fungus was present andthey experienced extinctions, it wouldbe a disaster.”

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indication that the fungus was present as there were nofrogs showing symptoms of the disease.

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

The research team is trying to prove that the chytrid fun-gus spread to other parts of the world when South Africaexported the African Clawed Frog, or platanna, in the1930s as a pregnancy test.

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

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

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

As a result of the findings, the team started drafting animport and export regulation document that will help pre-vent the spread of the chytrid fungus or other deadly dis-eases.

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

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=vn20060327004346417C227508&set_id=

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Got a good tip or idea for the Juve Herper Page? Email Dan Monson. See you at the meeting! -Dan FishMan

June Herp-Help Tip:Don’t put your terrarium in a

window that gets direct sunlight as you canoverheat and possibly harm or kill your animal

this way.

Juve InterviewNNaammee:: Daniel Knudson

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WWhhaatt’’ss bbeesstt aabboouutt MMHHSS?? You learn new thingsfrom the speakers

WWhhaatt’’ss yyoouurr ffaavvoorriittee hheerrpp?? Snakes

NNeexxtt hheerrpp yyoouu wwoouulldd lliikkee ttoo ggeett?? I have aboa; the next one I want to get is a cornsnake.

WWhhaatt aarree yyoouurr ppeettss’’ nnaammeess??My snake - NoohMy mom’s snake - KoaDogs - Shelly & LilaGuinea pig - Giny

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We had 18 Juve Voters. Some of the com-ments on why they voted for the Day Gecko:

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MMaarrccyy:: Because I have a gecko.

AAllaannnnaa:: I love geckos. They rock!

SSaamm:: Because I have been around geckos mostof my life and have been more interactive withDay Geckos.

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