Added 16 January 2000: last updated 20 September 2021 with article from Draco 55.

Periodical Index - Snakes

A guide to general snake articles appearing in herpetogical periodicals over the past few years


The articles listed below cover general aspects of snake keeping, such as hibernation, basic husbandry, health, etc. The different species are covered under the various other snake indexes.

Key



Articles

Article

Section/Series

Magazine

Issue

Author

3 Snake Questions

The Lilley Pad

IR

5:1

Gary Lilley

The Asian Food Trade in Snakes and Terrapins

 

 

 

 

Biting Back: Snakebites & Folk Treatments

 

RH

3:11

Merrill Singer, Ph.D

Bringing up Babies

The dos and donts of rearing hatchling snakes

PR

42

Terry Thatcher

Cooling Off Snakes

Ask the Breeder

Rs

11:12

Jerry G Walls

Cryptosporidiosis: an emerging nightmare

Veterinary Corner

IR

5:5

Stephen J Divers MRCVS

Dealing with Escapes

PPS:S


Tariq Abou-Zahr

Des serpents, des hommes [Serpents & Man] (includes a guide to French law)

Si

1

Philippe Savarin

Do Snakes Have Necks?

Do Snakes Have Necks? (Paper concerning vertebrae, etc)[The Cage Papers]

R&AH

7:1

?

Feeding

PPS:S


David Alderton

Fütterungsprobleme bei Babyschlangen [Feeding problems in baby snakes]

SA

1985:1

H Kantz

Has your snake lost its appetite?

PRK

8

Josh Beeston

Helping Snakes Eat

Starting Out

RH

3:12

Tom Mazorlig

Herps 101: The Advanced Snakes

R&AH

5:3

Jerry G Walls

How Snakes Move

PRK

68 (11/14)

Julia Mueller-Paul

Giant Snakes of Bygone Days: A Collector's Selection of Old Postcards, Prints and Photographs

R

37

Stefano Barone

Good first choices for kids [snake query]

Herp Mail

R&AH

5:9

Allen R Both

Grundlagen der Giftschlangenhaltung [Basics of keeping venomous snakes]

D

17

Beat Akeret

Housing Style and Stress

PPS:S


Charles Thompson

In Kürze: Alles über Schlangen [In short: everything about snakes]

D

17

Dieter Preißler

Infrared perception in snakes

 

R

8

U & W Ferrier

Infrarotdetektion bei Schlangen [Infrared detection in snakes]

D

17

Lars Wartenberg

Insights into snake breeding

PRK

5

Tariq Abou Zahr & John Berry

Interview d'un responsable du Queen Saovabah Memorial Institute (Snake Farm à Bangkok) [Interview with a person in charge of the Queen Saovabah Memorial Institute (Snake Farm in Bangkok)]

Si

6

Benjamin Coulette

Introducing Snakes

PPS:S


David Alderton

Lighting Corns

PPS:S


John Courteney-Smith

List of Snakes of Tam-Dao Mountain Ridge (Tonkin, Vietnam)

RJH

7(1)

Nikolai L Orlov, Robert W Murphy, Theodore J Papenfuss

Loss of Appetite

PPS:S


Josh Beeston

More About Drinking Methods

[Herpetological Queries]

Rs

4:2

Bill Love

Out of the Egg: starting baby snakes right

 

RH

2:9

Vincent Buccigrossi

Post Mortems in Snakes

Vet in Practice

PR

45

Richard Saunders

Introducing Snakes

PPS:S


Tariq Abou-Zahr

Reflections: Tales from the Snake Pit

 

RH

4:2

Michele Wismer

Reptile Rescue

Seizure of venomous snakes being apparently held without a Dangerous Wild Animals licence [note: this is a fairly controversial article giving only Peter Heathcote's side of the story]

PR

46

Peter Heathcote

Saint Dominic of Sora and The Festival of the Serpari

R

57

Mauro Grano

Schlangenhäute  lässt die Länge der gegerbten Haut wirklich keine Rückschlüsse auf die des lebenden Tieres zu? [Snakeskin - does the length of the shed skin really give no clue as to that of the living animal?]

D

17

Karlheinz & Manuel Fuchs

Schlangensymbolik im Totenbuch der Ägypter [Serpentine symbolism in the Egyptian Book of the Dead]

D

17

Kriton Kunz

Snake Hunting in the Land of the Aztecs

Part One

R&AH

7:2

Erik Loza

Snake Hybrids

Snake Hybrids: An Interesting Way to Increase Diversity

Rs

4:8

Glenn Fankhauser

Snake Psych 101

Starting Out

RH

3:11

Michele Wismer

Snake Ticks

Herp Mail

RH

3:8

?

Snakes kept awake by warm temperatures

R

55

?

South African Snakes

Personal Profile: Carl Jackson

PR

42

Will Moody

Starting with a new Snake

PPS:S


Christian Castille

Strategies for the Long-Term Care of Captive Snakes

Rs

11:12

Gerold and Cindy Merker

Talking Teeth

PRK

70 (1/15)

Paul Donovan

Vet In Practice

Egg-Binging in Snakes

PR

46

Richard Saunders

Wenn die Kälte kommt – die Überwinterung von Schlangen [When the cold comes – overwintering snakes]

D

55

Thomas Klesius

Whitewalls

"Whitewalls" [Herpetological Queries]

Rs

11:9

Bill Love

Zum aus der Haut fahren  Beobachtungen an Natternhemden [Jumping out of one's skin - observations on snake sheds]

D

17

Martin Hallmen

Zur Reproduktion von Schlangen im Terrarium. Aufgaben, Fakten, Probleme [Breeding snakes in the terrarium. Jobs, facts, problems]

D

17

Dieter Schmidt



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