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Long-tailed grass lizard (brown) basking between two green anoles.87

The Long-tailed Grass Lizard

Long-tailed Grass Lizard Takydromus sexlineatus Daudin, 1802 Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D. Family: Lacertidae, a family distributed throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. This species is found in...

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HOW TO LIVE WITH PAIN AND THOSE WHO HAVE IT

HOW TO LIVE WITH PAIN AND THOSE WHO HAVE IT By Robert Sprackland, Ph.D. Dedicated to the biggest pains in my life, which reside in the greatest love of my life. I [Note: links to special sites with...

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Mastering the Care of Chameleons

When is a lizard not a lizard? Believe it or not it wasn’t all that long ago that chameleons were classified as an infraorder of their own. Lizards were considered to be Rhipoglossa (chameleons) or Sauria...

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Notes on the Red Tegu

Notes on the Red Tegu, Tupinambis rufescens (Günther, 1871)By Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D.Shakespeare famously penned the opinion that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Yet, being human, we...

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Why America's Schools Fail: Part VI-C: Teacher's Unions

Why America's Schools Fail By Dr. Robert Sprackland Part VI. DEFINING THE PROBLEMS: Failures in GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY Politics and science (Note: these chapters and sections are being published as...

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Ultraviolet Light, Vitamin D, and Reptile Health

Ultraviolet Light, Vitamin D, and Reptile Health By Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D. If you keep reptiles you have probably learned that they require regular exposure to ultraviolet light (UV), and that...

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The Yellow Head Gecko

The Yellow Headed Gecko Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D. Yellow Headed Gecko Gonatodes albigularis fuscus (Hallowell, 1855) Family: Gekkonidae, the geckos, subfamily Sphaerodactylinae, the...

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The Eastern Coral Snake

The Eastern Coral Snake Micrurus fulvius (Linnaeus, 1766) By Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D. Family: Elapidae, venomous snakes that include cobras, kraits, mambas, brown snakes, tiger snakes and coral...

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EVOLUTION, PLAIN AND SIMPLE (PART I)

EVOLUTION, PLAIN AND SIMPLE Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D. © 2001, 2003, Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D. Preface There has been a considerable volume of literature generated on the...

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Fiscal Failure and the New Recession

By Robert George Sprackland, Ph.D. The Government of the United States of America says it will take at least $700,000,000 dollars – all the zeroes make the number look as formidably large as it is – to...

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