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The Ratsnake Foundation - ISSN 1756-2619
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Ratsnakes Digest
The monthly news letter of the Ratsnake Foundation
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Ratsnake Species
A brief over view of every species & subspecies of Ratsnake.
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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.
Word Count: 395
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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.
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The western green rat snake, Senticolis (formerly Elaphe) triaspis intermedia, has held a certain mystical appeal for me ever since I first visited the Chiricahua Mountains of south east Arizona during my senior year in high school. While I was in graduate school, I was given the option of doing research for my thesis in the Chiricahua Mountains. Naturally, I jumped at the opportunity, in large part, to spend time looking for this very elusive rat snake. My days during the spring of 1978 were spent studying the energetics's of a population of the striped plateau lizard, Sceloporus virgatus; the late afternoons and early evening were spent hiking and road cruising for the green ratsnake.
Step by Step how to build your own incubator, easily and cheaply.
Word Count - 2,543.
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An account by the author of the Trans Pecos Ratsnake, including field observations, captive care & breeding. illustrated with some stunning comparative photo's of various locales.
It was June 1988, I was on my first of countless excursions to the River Road which was made famous by the late Carl Kauffeld in his book Snakes and Snake Hunting. In this book, Kauffeld described an animal so beautiful and yet so elusive that I could not wait until I arrived at this prime collecting area. In fact Kauffeld devoted an entire chapter 'The search for subocularis' to his experiences attempting to find this animal. The animal that he and I were so desperately searching for was the Trans Pecos Ratsnake (Bogertophis subocularis).
An introduction to the care and breeding of the Mandarin Ratsnake from the authors (Mike Heinrich) experience.
Word count - 735
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Mandarin Rat Snakes are found mostly in the mountains of south China. They can also be found in the mountain forests of Burma, Vietnam, and Taiwan. They are arguably the most beautiful and most sought after snake kept in captivity. Just looking at these awesome beauties you get a sense of their prestige and mystique. Their facial markings resemble an oriental style painted porcelain mask. Even their name "Mandarin" commands honor; a Mandarin is a person of very high rank in the Chinese Empire. As little as 10 years ago, Mandarins were practically unheard of in the reptile hobby, but as each year passes they continue to get more and more popular with keepers. These majestic little snakes are the "crown jewel" of any collection.
A keepers experience with acclimatizing WC mandarin Ratsnakes and keeping CB hatchlings.
Word count - 1,525
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Problem is, they are just as hard to acclimate and keep alive, as they are pretty. Very few imported specimens stay alive longer than just a few months, the amount of snakes that actually live and do well are maybe in the 2-5% range. Now I know that sounds crazy but to get five snakes to live and do well for you, you will need to get 100 or more imports.
Author: Gidi Van de Belt
Word count - 1,346
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This is a really special ratsnake which can be found in North Vietnam and South China. Its horn on top of his nose makes it a snake with a special and unique characteristic. They are quite easy to maintain in captivity and should not normally present many problems. I find it remarkable that you can handle this species so easily; they never try to escape or bite me, as they are so placid. Only when they are young is it sometimes difficult to get them started to eat.
It is also very typical for this species that the hatchlings are born grey and will change to their adult colour by two years of age.
Authors:1.Borislav Naumov, 2.Ljiljana Tomovi
Word count - 1,479
1.Central Laboratory of General Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Gagarin Str. 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.
E-mail: herpetology_bg@yahoo.com
2.Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. Corresponding author. E-mail: lili@bf.bio.bg.ac.yu
Abstract. The leopard snake is one of the rarest snake species in Bulgaria. It is included in the Red Data Book of Bulgaria as threatened species under high anthropogenic pressure. Its distribution range in Bulgaria includes only three very distant regions in the southern part of the country. Precise literature data about the leopard snake in Bulgaria are scarce. The aim of this paper is to present distribution data as well as to review the conservation status of the leopard snake in Bulgaria.
Keywords. Leopard snake, distribution, conservation, Bulgaria, Balkan peninsula.