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Reaching Out to the Community

We always talk about reaching out to the reptile community. As you probably already know I belong to several groups in various social networks and today in one of those groups Region Reptiles & Exotics a mom asked if the members would wish her son a happy birthday. I had no clue who this mom […]


Crotalus viridis helleri

And the Cascabel will Fall Quiet…

Rattlesnakes were described by many cultures prior to the English invasion of the New World and were known by some Spanish and Portuguese explorers who likened the sound of the snakes tail when vibrated to that of a bell. According to Klauber this erroneous notion came from the English translation of cascabel which is the […]


Reptile Foraging

I mean seriously folks, when was the last time you saw a reptile in the wild eating out of a food bowl? Is there a special store for snakes to obtain frozen thawed rodents that we have yet to find? This of course goes without saying that the vitamin and mineral shops in the reptile world must be making a killing by now.