Is it head to toe when the legs are stretched out or is it nose to vent?
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When people/caresheets refer to length exactly what are they measuring?
wideglide
Mar 15, 2004 03:24 PM
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Colchicine
Mar 15, 2004 03:28 PM
SVL= snout to vent length, is the scientific standard for measuring most herps, since it is most consistent as legs and toes can be missing.
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wideglide
Mar 15, 2004 03:31 PM
>>SVL= snout to vent length, is the scientific standard for measuring most herps, since it is most consistent as legs and toes can be missing.
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>>...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
>> Aldo Leopold (1938)
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>>"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
>>Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)
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