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Croc Blog: October 2014
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Thursday, October 09, 2014. Rise from your grave! Well hello there. It's been a while hasn't it, but the Croc Blog has been on something of a hiatus lately. You can put this down squarely to its owner diverting his energies elsewhere, but this is all about to change. for the better. Secondly, we'll have a guest blogger appearing soon. I won't say any more at this stage, in case it doesn't happen, but fingers crossed. And finally, here's a picture of a crocodile, because I don't need an excuse! 65 million...
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Croc Blog: Accurate headlines: "Crocodile nightmare"
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014. Accurate headlines: "Crocodile nightmare". The media really loves crocodiles, not because journalists necessarly like. Courtesy ninemsn) that struck me today, and it's a familiar theme. The headline is " Crocodile nightmare for four fishing mates. So wow, that sounds pretty dramatic! Were these four guys attacked by a crocodile? Perhaps they were threatened by one, or were in serious danger of being attacked? Of course, we're all glad that they were rescued and that no crocodi...
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Croc Blog: March 2014
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014. CrocLog Podcast - Episode 15. Its worth a listen because we have a good chat about human crocodile conflict as we discuss the launch of the CrocBITE database. We also end up talking about rattlesnake tails briefly, but soon get back onto the topic and hand by talking about tool use in crocodilians. Brandon discusses a few interesting crocodile attacks from last year, and we end up wondering where all the decent crocodile documentaries have gone lately. Links to the podcast below:.
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Summary of Graduate Project | aLoadOfCroc
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The Adventures, Excitement, and Research of the World of Crocodilians. 8220;If a Woman loves a crocodile…”. Summary of Graduate Project. Summary of Graduate Project. Crocodilian parasites have been well-documented since the early 1800s, but few have attempted to understand the unique, and possibly prehistoric, association between crocodilians and their parasites. As a result of ecological perturbations, knowledge on the significance of crocodiliasn and their parasites is necessary to take the proper acti...
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Croc Blog: August 2013
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Monday, August 19, 2013. CrocLog Podcast Episode 14. In this episode we dont interview anyone, but you do get to hear us at our worst! Links to the podcast below:. Links to this post. Tuesday, August 13, 2013. You can carry the entire Chinese alligator genome on a USB stick. So Zhejiang University scientists have finally sequenced the entire genome for the Chinese alligator ( Alligator sinensis. Why is sequencing entire genomes important? Maybe not in 2013, but I'm sure it's coming. Links to this post.
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Croc Blog: February 2013
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Thursday, February 14, 2013. A Night for the Crocs. Adult Tomistoma, Photo (c) Soham Mukherjee. I should have posted about this earlier, but recent events have made the last few weeks a little hectic. This Saturday 16 February an event called "A Night for the Crocs" is being held at Zoo Miami in Florida. I won't duplicate any more information from their website, so go and check it out here. Sounds like a lot of fun for a good cause, and you can't argue with that! Links to this post. So long, Lolong.
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Croc Blog: Can crocodiles really climb trees?
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Thursday, February 13, 2014. Can crocodiles really climb trees? Photo by M. van Welsem / Mabuwaya Foundation. Vladimir Dinets, Matt Shirley and I recently published a paper entitled "Climbing behaviour in extant crocodilians". Here's a link. If you'd like to read it. The resulting news stories have been quite extensive, to say the least! Perhaps it means that crocodiles will start dropping from the branches onto your head for a surprise dinner date? Photo by Petr Myska, C. acutus juveniles. We might be s...
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Croc Blog: November 2014
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Thursday, November 27, 2014. The exciting news is that we're now collaborating with Dr Simon Pooley of Imperial College London, who's recently received an ESRC Impact Acceleration Award. To develop visualisations that will integrate with CrocBITE. Simon is employing Information is Beautiful to come up with innovative ways of presenting these data to help us find patterns. This will be available to all users as an interactive online tool to help interpret the information. Links to this post. 65 million ye...
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Croc Blog: May 2013
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Monday, May 13, 2013. What really killed Lolong? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 65 million years after the dinosaurs suffered a slight setback, the most successful archosaurs - the crocodilians - are still with us. Whether you regard yourself as a crocophile, a curious bystander, or prey, you owe it to yourself to learn more about the most successful semi-aquatic predators of all time, and perhaps a little about those who work with them. View my complete profile.
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