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Herpetological Highlights — 250 episodes

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247 Big Brains Ain't Free

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246 Salamanders vs Volcanoes

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245 A Vegetation Investigation

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244 Frogs Bringing the Pain

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243 Pythons are Seed Pipelines

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242 Spot the Viper to Survive

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241 Poison Frog Parents

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240 Small Homes for Small Gators

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239 Side Effects of Albinism

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238 Antivenom Breakthrough

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237 City Slickin' Wall Lizards

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236 Grippy Australian Geckos

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235 Magnetoad Goes Home

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234 Hot Dragons, Cold Dragons

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233 Colour-matching chameleons

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232 The Glass is Half-full for Tortoises

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231 Hotter Times for Desert Lizards

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230 Bats Listen to Hear Which Frog is Tastiest

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229 Tokay Geckos Will Remember You

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228 Why do pythons have heat pits?

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227 The Colourful Diet of Day Geckos

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226 Iguanas on Tour

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225 Smooth Snakes vs Vipers

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224 Raptors Cannot Resist Rattlesnakes

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223 Sky-diving Salamanders

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222 Aesculapian Snake Special

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221 Salamander Salvation

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220 Toxic Toads A Tale of Two Species

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219 Ball Pythons Care About Friendship

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218 Sleepy Skinks Love Tomatoes

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217 Blindsnake Takeover

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216 Bearded Dragons Master Imitators

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215 How Snakes Tackle Scorpions

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214 Stinky Worm Lizards

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213 Can you sex a blue-tongued skink?

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212 King Cobra Species Split

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211 Babies Crying Attracts Crocodiles

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210 Box Turtle Personality

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209 Eggs, Tails, and Leucistic Snakes

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208 Smoked Out Lizards

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207 Monitor Lizards Munching Manky Marsupials

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206 Lizards on Red Alert

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205 SquaMates Podcast Crossover

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204 World Congress of Herpetology

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203 Impulsive Skinks

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202 Homeward Hopping Frogs

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201 Toxic Toe-tapping Frogs

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200 Episode 200

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199 Frog Saunas Save Lives

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198 Ultra-violet Snakes

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197 The Fortitude of Dragons

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196 Geckos on the Frontline

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195 What makes a snake bite?

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194 Mighty Morphing Salamanders

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193 Snakes Can Smell Themselves

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192 Night of the Natrix

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191 History Inside Frog DNA

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190 Snake Food Fights

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189 What can Brown Snakes do for you?

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188 Big Wetlands for Big Snakes

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187 Anoles on the Night-shift

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186 Sleeping Dragons

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185 The tortoises are back in town

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184 Skin-eating Caecilians

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183 Lizards Disrupting Dinner

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182 Sea Snake Squad

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181 Piebald Pythons

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180 Urban Chameleon Warfare

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179 Well-armed Newts

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178 Meadow Vipers like Grazed Grass

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177 Are Iguanas Unwelcome Guests?

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176 Snakes and Pharaohs

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175 Herding Turtles

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174 Rotting Salamanders

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173 Never Smile at a Crocodile

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172 Super Hybrid Salamanders

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171 Weaponised Chameleons

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170 Meals for Mamushi

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169 Gecko Screams in the Night

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168 Similar Snacks for Sympatric Snakes

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167 Resistant Caecilians

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166 Emotional Support Rattlesnakes

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165 Toad vs Toad

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164 Isolated Indigo Snakes

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163 Geckos Understand the Smell of Trouble

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162 My squeak is as bad as my strike

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161 Do colourful lizards make better battlers?

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160 Glowing Salamanders

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159 When Loggerheads come to blows

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158 Colossal Crocs are Big River Chillers

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157 The Bushmasters of Brazil

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156 Comfort Eating Lizards

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155 No Eardrums, No Problem

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154 The Frogs Who Live With Ants

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153 The Rising Toad Tide

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152 Pythons as Prey

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151 Glassfrogs and Their Transparent Tricks

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150 The Underwater Antics of Turtles

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149 The Hidden Risk of Carrying Tadpoles

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148 Snakes with Dangerous Diets

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147 Crocodiles can feel with their face

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146 Iguanas with a Sweet Tooth

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145 Vipers On Ice

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144 New Zealand’s Native Frogs

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143 Can frogs stand the heat?

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142 Alligators can regrow their tails

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141 Mountain Dragons

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140 Snake Diets Through the Ages

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139 Can brownsnakes be bothered?

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138 Evolving Anoles

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137 Switzerland’s Frog-enaissance

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136 Set a course for Tiny Boa Island

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135 I should have stayed an egg

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134 For Rattlesnakes, Wetter is Better

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133 Tale of the Caledonian Castaways

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132 Radioactive Colour Changing Frogs

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131 Invasion of the Lung Crustaceans

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130 Versatile Blue Tongue

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129 Fast Food is Bad for Turtles Too

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128 Swampy Siren Songs

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127 Frog Calls in a Concrete Jungle

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126 The Salamanders That Parachute

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125 Last of the Giant Lizards

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124 Garter Snake Gangs

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123 Fantastic Mr Foxsnake

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122 Volcano Lizards

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121 The Cheeky Startler

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120 Vipers With Eyebrows

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119 Crocodile Comeback

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118 The Frogs That Cannot Hop

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117 Predation Liberation - Shine on Chameleons

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116 The Unfamiliar Scent of Death

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115 Tag! You’re Envenomated

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114 Not All Retics Are The Same

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113 Bearded Dragons Dodgy Dinners

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112 Intoxicated Crocs

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111 Steps Towards Turtle Rehabilitation

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110 Snakes - Ant-mothers or Ant-Eaters

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109 Accelerating Python Research

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108 In The Hall of The Mountain Kingsnake

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107 ROBO-TOADS

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106 New Python Alert

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105 Creative crab eating snakes

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104 Unrequited sea snake love

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103 Endangered Giants

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102 War of the Worms

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101 Monitor Lizards

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100 Episode 100

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099 I hope it is a dry bite

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098 Kingsnake Squeeze

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097 Picky Pink Panthers

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096 Livid Lizards

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095 Imps of Darkness

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094 Hognose Hodgepodge

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093 Tortoise Talk

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092 Home is Where the Python's at

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091 Vyper Vyper Biting Bright

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090 Little Snakes in the Big City

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089 Flummoxed by Fluorescence

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088 Bungarus Bonanza

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087 Invasion Evasion

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086 Illusionary Tortoises

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085 Technicolour Dream Lizards

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084 Beady Brains on the Move

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083 Humans and Venom

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082 Hey skink, why so blue?

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081 Is that even a frog?

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080 Genetics to the Rescue

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079 Close Encounters of the Bird Kind

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078 Colour in the Desert

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077 Battle Frogs

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076 Green Pit Viper Special

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075 Trading Blows and Trading Reptiles

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074 Actual Cannibal Salamanders

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073 Lizards of the Night

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072 Sidewinders Sighting Sites

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071 Don’t count your Sand Boas before they hatch

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070 Amphisbaenian Appetites

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069 Freezing Frogs

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068 Hoplocephalus with Scott Eipper

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067 Flipping Frogs

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066 Chelonian Sniffing Canines

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065 Viper X Toad

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064 The Art of Turtle War

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063 Croc-o-motion

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062 Step softshell, for you tread upon my turtles

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061 Vertical Herps

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060 High-calibre Hydromantes

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059 Rediscovered Species Special

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058 Night of the Gecko

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057 Pit Viper Proportions

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056 The Ecology of Snakebite

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055 I Can’t Believe It’s Not Water Snakes

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054 Venom Variation

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053 In Defense of Eggs

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052 Salamanders Vs Plants

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051 Python Surprise

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050 Toady, Toady, Tody

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049 Great Lizard Escapes

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048 The Frog After Tomorrow

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047 Iguanas Rock

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046 Stinky Turtles

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045.5 Question - Snake Eyes

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045 King Among Cobras

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044 Where Those Herps At?

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043 Lazy Dragons, Lazy Newts

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042 A Christmas Miracle

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041 Learned Lizards

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040 Complications of Captivity

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039 An Appetite for Arboreality

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038 A Frog Over Troubled Water

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037 Chameleon Comeback

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036 Crocodiles of the Mekong

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035 Caecilians Caecilians Caecilians

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034 Hybrid Pythons

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033 Lost in Translocation

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032 Duplicitous Dendrobatids

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031 From Tortoise Brutality to Snail-eating Snakes

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030 Attack of the Toxic Toads

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029 Striking Snakes

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028 Indigo Snakes

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027 The Curious Case of the Collapsed Chelonian

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026 Assortment of Anoles

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025 Return of the Invertebrates

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024 News Niche - Crabs and p-values

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023 Some smooth, some grassy, all hungry

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022 The Ebb and Flow of Water Snakes

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021 Frugivorous Monitors

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020 The Magnificent Vipers

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019 Invertebrates Strike Back

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018 Big Trouble in Little Chameleons

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017 ANACONDAS

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016 Slimy Salamander Sociality

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The Interviews 002 - Steve Allain

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015 Serpents of the Sea

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014 Crocs

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013 Frog Fungus

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012 Geckos Down Under

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The Interviews 001 - John 'Gecko Wrangler' McGrath

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011 Survival of the Vipers

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010 Armoured Lizards

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009 The Golden Mantella

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008 Deceptive Snakes

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007 Fossorial Frogs

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006 Turtle Tides

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005 Monsters and Dragons

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004 Day Gecko Invasion

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003 Bodacious Boas

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002 Frog Noise and Snake Space

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001 Cool Colours and Cryptic Camo