Reptiles
Book Review
Book Review: Venomous” Bites from Non-Venomous Snakes: A Critical Analysis of Risk and Management of “Colubrid” Snake Bites
Authors:Scott A Weinstein, Daniel E Keyler, Julian White, and D. A. Warrell. Review by Justin Smith
Rear-fanged snakes have always been in the background of the hobby. Never really reaching the amount of popularity as...
Tips
5 Herp Room Must-Haves: Billy Hunt of Uwabami Reptiles
Snake Hook
With the number of animals and species I work with, I have found snake hooks to be one of the most valuable tools in my snake room. Hook training all my animals has...
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...
Book Review
Book Review: Anaconda: The Secret life of the World’s Largest Snake
By Jesus Rivas, review by Geoff Obst
Jesus Rivas, a South American herpetologist and leading expert on all things anaconda, gives us a second book on these giant snakes. Through a tremendous amount of dedication...
Snakes
Breeding Boiga cyanea
By Justin Smith
It was the fall of 2018. At this point, I had decided to shift my focus back to snakes as I slowly started selling my collection of Crested and Gargoyle Geckos. Chondros...
