hot books

[crocsnhots]

Hey everyone,
What do you consider must have books for hot keepers?
Either because they display the beautiful variety of the venomous world, natural history, husbandry or just excellent reads. What are your favourites? And why?

[Crotalus75]

Here is a list of some of my favorites(excluding non-toxinology/venomous):



The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere (Campbell, Lamar)

Handbook of Clinical Toxinology of Animal Venoms and Poisons (Meier, White)

Australian Animal Toxins (Sutherland, Tiballs)

True Vipers (Mallow, Ludwig, Nilson)

Biology of the Vipers (Schuett, Hoggren, Douglas, Green)

Biology of the Pit Vipers (Campbell, Brody)

Rattlesnakes (Klauber) (unabridged)

The Bushmasters - Morphology in Evolution and Behavior (Ripa) (CDROM)



*The following are not specifically about venomous snakes but are related to toxinology, herpetology, etc and very relevant


Scorpion Biology and Research (Gary Polis)

Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Saunders)

The Merck Index



*These are the next books on my list to purchase:



Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex (Gloyd, Conant)

Cobras in His Garden (Kursh)

Biology of Scorpions (Polis)

Snakes and Snake bite: Venomous snakes and management of snake bite in South Africa (Visser)

Snakes: Atlas of Elapid snakes of Australia (Longmore)

Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snake bite (Thorpe)

Coral Snakes of the Americas: Biology, Identification and Venoms (Rose)

Venomous Reptiles of North America (Ernst)

The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America (Campbell, Lamar)

Rattlesnake Portrait of a Predator (Rubio)

Venom Phospholipase A2 Enzymes: Structure, Function and Mechanism (Kini)

Snake Toxins (harvey)

Perspectives in Molecular Toxinology (Menez)

Venomous Snakes: Snakes In the Terrarium (Trutnau)(Unreleased)

Dictionary of Herpetology (Lillywhite)(Unreleased)

The Anatomy of Reptiles (Wyneken)(Unreleased)

[crocsnhots]

Thats a great list, the ones I hadn't heard of I looked up on amazon, such fantastic books. I'm really looking forward to purchasing The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere in a little bit.

Now hopefully someone else can add to the great titles above.

[Crotalus75]

Another option for fantastic info that you can't get anywhere else is published herpetology/toxinology papers. There are a couple of ways to obtain these:

1) Subscribe to a journal such as Toxicon,etc... (can be expensive)

2) If you are affiliated with a University (Student, faculty, etc..) you can get photocopies of the journals that they subscribe to or print papers from online journals.

3) Write/e-mail directly to the person who published the paper you seek.

4) Some researchers have .pdf files available to download via their internet website, etc..

Most researchers will be glad to supply you with a copy of their published papers......if more people have access to their work this raises the chance of someone else citing their work.....
publish or perish, get cited in others publications, get your work recognized and validated by others....get circulated....this is the name of the game in academic life.....

[SCReptiles]

Venom 101 is the best place to start.

[crocsnhots]

Wheres Venom 101? As far as I heard it was taken down from ks before I got a chance to check it out...

[SCReptiles]

Most old heads will have a copy of it somewhere. I have the entire thing in PDF form. I will be glad to email it to you, but you will have to find and email server big enough to transfer it. It’s over 3 megs. Hotmail, yahoo, or any of the other free servers can not handle it. I can email it from my office, so find me an address to send it to and email me at HurSam@CovenantTransport.com

[Gary O]

I have learned a lot from Dr. Fry's site

http://www.venomdoc.com/

It is an awesome site with tons of info on venom!

[crocsnhots]

Gary O and others,
I have been to BGF's site before, its a great site. I wasnt as much looking for info on venom as I was wondering what are some of everyones favourite hot books. So what are YOUR favs?