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This months we have three Full Member articles:


It's a love thing

Author: Sue Knight

Photographic guide to reproductive behaviour in Elaphe dione with notes on courtship rituals. Including a glossary of common terms used when describing breeding behaviour in snakes.





Asian Rat Snakes of the Genus Elaphe - Elaphe davidi

Author: Klaus-Dieter Schulz

Amongst herpetologists, David’s Rat Snake is an absolutely unknown species as is the case with almost all Asian Elaphespecies. Even professional herpetologists have had to refer to the various literature sources in order to be able to give exact details of this species. Unfortunately this snake is only known to me from literature and from a few bad photographs.






Clutch and Incubation Parameters for Ratsnake species and subspecies

Author: Sue Knight

This is a guide to the incubation temperatures, incubation duration and clutch size of most Ratsnake species and subspecies with notes on eggs and incubation. Also included is data on some common name ratsnake clutches.




Over the weekend we will be running the live webcam again in anticipation of the female Rhyno Ratsnake laying her clutch of eggs.


If any member has or knows of any hybrid Ratsnakes especially involving European or Asiatic Ratsnake species then please contact Lou with details to assist her in an article she is putting together for the Ratsnake Foundation.

Also for a future article if you have any photo's of deformed hatchlings, kinked spines, over shot jaws, small eyes, no eyes etc ..  you can share then please forward them to Sue.


The Committee and Editors have decided that the newsletter, Ratsnakes Digest will now be published on a quarterly basis with more content .. we have a few nice suprises in store for the next issue (July), each issue will topical to that season. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Rob Stone from High Plains Herpetoculture for taking on the Chief Newsletter position and to Riseabove who has also joined the newsletter team.

A warm welcome to Riseabove also as our Ordinary member. John has been busy in the photo gallery sourcing and uploading a load of North American field herping photo's with locality details. If you havn't visited the gallery recently your missing out on some really stunning photo's. Full members don't forget you can now upload photo's of your 'rare snakes'.

Talking of  'rare snakes' there is now a forum for the discussion of the not so commonly kept species, where registered members are also welcome to post photo's and share there experiences with them.

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