Lizards
Lizards
Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination In Reptiles
By Josh Hall
In the 1960s, Madeline Charnier started incubating eggs of the African Rainbow Agama (Agama agama) at different temperatures in her lab at the University of Dakar, Senegal. She noticed the sex ratio...
Featured
Understanding Parthenogenesis
By Paul Donovan
Over the past few issues, I have covered reproduction in scorpions, spiders and insects. This month I want to look at a rather unusual mode of reproduction; so-called ‘virgin births’. This is...
Industry Spotlight
Industry Spotlight: Frank Payne
HM: What was your initial draw to lizards that drove you to primarily focus on them?
FP: I’m originally from Texas and I spent the early part of my childhood and every summer there. I...
Lizards
The Collared Tree Runner: The Jewel of the Amazon, Plica plica in the Home Terrarium
By Jeremy Carroll
If you take a walk in the rainforest of the Amazon for any given period of time while surveying the trees around you, you may find a jewel of the forest...
Amphibians
Ameerega in the Mist: Keeping A. hahneli ‘Tahuyao’
By Tijl of @Urban__Jungles
Foreword
First, a quick introduction! My name is Tijl and I am a frog enthusiast from Belgium. I have been keeping and breeding different species of dart frogs since 2010. Back...
Tips
5 Herp Room Must-Haves: Geoff Obst of Puget Sound Pythons
1. Temp Gun
This is a must have for any reptile room big or small. We utilize this tool almost daily. It's Important to keep your animals comfortable and to make sure temps throughout the...
Product Reviews
Product Review: C Serpents Hatchling Rack
Review by Billy Hunt
I have used the 18-tub hatchling rack from C Serpents for a little over two years now. I use three of them stacked on top of each other so I have...
Lizards
The Yellow-Throated Plated Lizards
By Paul Donovan
The family Gerrhosauridae encompasses six known genera. Four of these occur in sub-Saharan Africa, and make up the subfamily Gerrhosaurinae:
Angolosaurus (one species- Angolosaurus skoogi)Cordylosaurus (one species- Cordylosaurus subtessellatus) Gerrhosaurus (six species - Gerrhosaurus...
