| Proper Care of Snakes | 
 enlarge | Author: Armin Geus
Publisher: TFH Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 526728
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0866221859
Dewey Decimal Number: 639.396
EAN: 9780866221856
ASIN: 0866221859
Publication Date: June 25, 1992
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Condition: New-However-Remainder Mark-red felt pen line to top of pages.Perfect pages inside. Slight bash mark to back cover
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A solid work, but with some serious mistakes April 2, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand it's a small, compact book filled with great colour photographs and detailed information on reptile physiology and ecology, but on the other hand there are some quite serious mistakes made too.
One section of the book details how snakes will actually regurgitate the fur/feather and teeth etc of their prey items, once they've been digested. This is not the case! Aside from one of two rare exceptions (for example Liasis albertsi), all snakes digest their food completely with only some matted fur passing out of the back end.
Having leveled this criticism, I must say the book was first written a very long time ago (decades ago), and for it's time the text and photographs are amazing. So rather than taking such as serious error as the one above negatively, I feel it's worth considering it an indication of how herpetology has progressed since those times, and taking the book for what it is - an early attempt at cataloguing the various snake species (which it does very well), and further trying to lay down some captive husbandry for them.
However... This is NOT a book for a beginner to snake keeping! They may well learn bad habits and incorrect "facts" - it's a title best left on the experienced keeper's bookshelf as a reminder of how far modern herpetoculture has come.
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