Introduction Fantasy novels have existed for a long time, but came into prominence after J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series. This series introduced many concepts into fantasy and created a genre sometimes known as “high fantasy.” Many novels are written in this mold every year, and in addition, people indulge in pretending they are a part of this kind of world through such role-playing g...

Despite periodontal disease being recognized as a common condition in captive bearded dragons, there is lack of data regarding the prevalence. A soft diet has previously been cited main risk factor linked to disease, although little research conducted into etiology since was first described. The aims this study were investigate prevalence dental abnormalities and Central dragons United Kingdom,...

Sex allocation theory predicts that mothers should adjust their sex-specific reproductive investment in relation to the predicted fitness returns from sons versus daughters. Sex allocation theory has proved to be successful in some invertebrate taxa but data on vertebrates often fail to show the predicted shift in sex ratio or sex-specific resource investment. This is likely to be partly explai...