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Right you are. I apologize for my misstatement.

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Madagasikara Voakajy Have you heard anything about this group: Madagasikara Voakajy? http://www.madagasikara-voakajy.org/index.php They seem to have three programs going for endangered chameleons.

Teach your children to wash their hands after handling animals, and that should reduce risks to near-nothing

not dry... chewy I've now had a chance to read this, and can I say thank you to the authors and editors for puting this work together? Quite a good synthesis of the state of things in our understanding of these animals. It should be said clearly that this is a work for the scholar, and...

sticks They have been introduced to San Francisco; they like English ivy and blackberries on the hillsides above upper Market St. Don't say I told you...

Additional books added to my shelves I recently added some more books on poisonous plants, the important one is: 'Toxic Plants of North America' Burrows, G.E., & Tyrl, R. Second Edition 2013 Wiley-Blackwell This is a very thorough and up-to-date reference, and huge (over 1300 pages), but...

this is interesting: an Australian skink lives socially with related individuals and digs big tunnel complexes for all its kin. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/science/17oblizard.html?_r=1&ref=science

Pachira There is a search button at the top of the page - a search will show you quite a few threads covering the topic of the "money tree" _Pachira aquatica_. Here's one I posted; last post in thread Short and to the point: Pachira is safe but unsuitable as it is too soft to support...

Thanks again Thanks for these pointers to so many good articles. There are some old, some new, some fun. Most I had not ever seen. Again, thank you for gathering these finds for us. I was particularly surprised to read that Tr. cristatus (in the Nigerian article; called *Chameleo*...

was... I was interested - here's a thread Not having babies, I've kind of forgotten about them. <sniff>

Mangrove? Mangroves are really hard to grow as a houseplant: they need super strong light and have to be grown sitting in salt water or wet soil. The leaves are very tough and unpalatable; I don't think many chams would try to to eat it, but at least one mangrove species is listed as being...

scale (long response) I can see a scale insect clearly in pictures 3-4 and 5-6; they certainly are responsible for the sticky residues on the leaves. Scale are unfortunately, really hard to control. Most of the types of scale that infest house plants have become resistant to many...

a rose, by any other name... I think the "pussy willow" being given a "5" is some sort of mistake; my comments above apply to all willows in the genus _Salix_. They aren't toxic, don't have thorns, don't have irritating sap.

what? Huh? Where did you find that? When I look at the link, it shows willows listed as a "1" - non-toxic. I concur. No willow has true thorns; I can not think of one that even has an approximation of a thorn. Not 100% sure, but it would seem that none have irritating sap, in that I can...

Chinese Evergreen Its a chinese evergreen, _Aglaonema_ sp., probably A. domesticum. Not really recommended for animal habitats where there is a grazing inhabitant. Not super toxic though. Its in the Aroid family, and like most in that family, is has special oxalates called raphides which...

key 'em out For a quick way to tell _S. arboricola_ from _actinophylla_, the leaflets are smooth along their edges; _actinophylla_ usually has as least a few serrations along each leaflet. S. _actinophylla_ also grows much bigger and has bigger, wider leaflets from an early age; at the base of...

Congratulations Congratulations Jack! Best wishes for the new clutch too!

Oops Sorry to be the bearer of bad news; looks like you got the dangerous Schefflera, S. actinophylla. Edit: My apologies; I was looking at it on my stupid iPhone. The ficus leaves fooled me. Looks like the others correctly indicated it is the right one, S. arboricola. Sorry.

bromeliads get bigger (sic) Not quite... There are many bromeliads larger. Puya raimondii is many times larger and has a flower stalk over 36 ft. (10 m.) tall. Bromeliads do not present a danger of poisoning to animals. A few people have an allergic reaction to some species.