Paul Donovan
Invertebrates
So Many Legs! Keeping Centipedes
By Paul Donovan
Although I have worked with reptiles for the past 30+ years and it is always exciting to stumble across a species you have only ever seen pictures of while walking in the...
Amphibians
A Trip in Search of Amphibians of Botswana
By Paul Donovan
You could be forgiven for thinking that a country whose land mass is comprised of 84% of the Kalahari Desert, and is arid as a piece of sandpaper, you’d be hard pressed...
Lizards
Lizard Communication
By Paul Donovan
If there’s one thing I loath more than anything else, it’s shopping. Trudging around shops is something I could well do without, but unfortunately it has to be done. The only consolation...
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Skin Colour in Nature
By Paul Donovan
Why that colour?
Colouration is used for many purposes in the animal world. For example, birds use it for courtship, where males are often vibrantly coloured, and when combined with often elaborate dances,...
Amphibians
The Red Toad – Schismaderma carens
By Paul Donovan
Frogs and toads love the rain, and as we have been having an awful lot of it over the past few weeks, it comes as no surprise that just about everywhere is...
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...
Invertebrates
Insect Reproduction
by Paul Donovan
Like so many people who start out keeping reptiles, I also migrated towards keeping invertebrates as well. The two seem to go hand in hand. I think the more simple animals are,...
Invertebrates
Spider Reproduction
by Paul Donovan
In last month's edition of Herpetoculture Magazine, I covered the intricacies of scorpion reproduction. As the spider hobby is bigger than the scorpion one, and many keepers aspire to breed their animals,...
