State Law Keeps Gopher Tortoise Safe
Over the last 10 years, the treatment of the Gopher Tortoise has changed a lot. Until 2007, land owners could apply for a “incidental-take” permit to simply entomb the animals in their own burrows. The Orlando Sentinel reported that 12,690 incidental-take permits were issued in 2006 and another 6,867 in 2007 before the law changed. Today in Florida Gopher tortoises are protected by a state law that says all tortoises in the way of development must be captured and relocated to an appropriate recipient site.
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Who’s Who…
Edward Blyth (1810 – 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India at Calcutta. He wrote three articles on variation, discussing the effects of artificial selection and describing the process in nature as restoring organisms in the wild to their archetype (rather than forming new species). However, he never actually used the term “natural selection”. These articles were published in The Magazine of Natural History between 1835 and 1837.
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