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       I guess I should do this as well....
       By: Crotaphos Date: January 16, 2014, 11:26 pm
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       My name is Cameron Ramsey and I have been studying reptiles for
       the last 18 years of my life on a higher level. I have always
       had an interest which was nurtured by my father. I have kept
       numerous species and bred some of those over the years. Some of
       the successes I have had include breeding Uroplatus ebenaui,
       Correlophus ciliatus, Eublepharis sp. 'domesticated', Pareodura
       picta, and Rieppeleon brevicaudata. I have kept even more from
       snakes to frogs and toads and many lizards. I have bred
       Tanganyikan Cichlids as well. I have always been fascinated by
       Crotaphytid lizards and Eublepharid geckos above all others. In
       2009 I started Ramsey's Reptiles with my wife and after a 4 year
       hiatus will be back working with my brother Chad.
       I will be getting my Bachelors of Science in Anthropology from
       the University of Utah in May of 2014. During my time at the
       University I worked with Utah Museum of Natural History in two
       fashions. First, I helped organize and catalogue their
       Herpetological Collection which hadn't been updated in 30 years.
       I was in charge of updating the collection labels to the
       currently used taxa due to any changes (and there were a lot).
       Second, I was charged with running the Zooarchaeology Lab. There
       my responsibilities were to process animals from fresh and not
       so fresh carcasses to bones, then to catalogue them into the
       museum archives. In the lab I also studied herpetological fossil
       material from a site in northern Baja California, material
       ranging from snake vertebra and some cranial elements to anuran
       tibia and lizard skeletons. One of the most common specimens
       found was that of a very large, even giant Crotalus species
       represented by vertebra and maxilla with the fang still
       attached.
       I love to go field herping and need to get out every year. I
       worry about the future of wild places though because of the
       growth and spread of our species. This is one of the driving
       forces for me to keep reptiles in captivity, not in hopes to
       reintroduce but to simply preserve what we have while there is
       still something around to preserve. I hope to work with many
       other species and have plans in the future to obtain species
       which will accomplish these goals.
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