Just got in a new book yesterday,
Venomous Snakes: Snakes in the Terrarium by
Ludwig Trutnau. I have several other 'hot' books but I was eagerly awaiting the english translation and publication of this book, and haven't been let down.
340pp, 129 colour photos, 171 species descritpions, hard cover
8" wide, 9.5" high, 1" deep
Despite the poor quality cover photo of
Ophiophagus hannah, the photos throughout the book are gorgeous, especially
Bitis nasicornis on page 128. Other favourites of mine are
Vipera wagneri on page 188,
Vipera xanthina on page 189,
Crotalus polystictus on page 259 and
Trimeresurus flavomaculatus mcgregori on page 305.
This is the first (english) book I have ever seen on keeping a wide variety of venomous snakes. Of the species I looked up the information seems correct, although I am not experienced enough with keeping those particular species to say for sure.
The temperatures are in celcius tho, so my American and fahrenheit using Canadian friends might find it somewhat of an inconvenience to lookup the F° conversions repeatedly.
Just keep a thermometer closeby and it shouldn't pose a problem.
Anyone else have this book yet? What are your thoughts?
Venomous Snakes
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