Reptilia 49 - Food animal breeding

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Reptilia 49 - Food animal breeding

Scorpion crust lizard
Spotted python
Chinese mountain dragon

Contents:

2 EDITORIAL

- 4 READER LETTERS

- 5 MAGAZINE

- 14 DATES

- 18 WESTERN HERP PERSPECTIVES
  Hurricane Sale in Florida
  by B. Love

- 20 PHOTO REPORTAGE
  Breeding food animals yourself - a problem?
  by F. Bruse & H. Werning

- 27 REPORTAGE
  Efficient and productive cricket breeding by F. Bruse
- 33 REPORTAGE
  Breeding the chocolate cockroach (Shellfordella tartara) by F. Bruse
- 36 REPORTAGE
  A simple Drosophila breeding project by F. Bruse
- 40 HERPETOFAUNA
  Notes on the Motagua lizard (Cnemidophorus motaguae) by U. Schlüter
- 43 TRAVEL
  Herpetological observations and more from Gambia by U. Thieme
- 51 PORTRAIT AND POSTER
  Geoclemys hamiltoni
  by H. - D. Philippen

- 56 KEEPING AND BREEDING
  Keeping and Breeding the Chinese Mountain Agame (Japalura splendida)
  by H. Schradin

- 68 HERPETOFAUNA
  Dendrobates pumilio
  The strawberry frog on the Bocas Islands
  by B. Schwarz

- 72 KEEPING AND BREEDING
  The black Mexican chain snake (Lampropeltis getula nigrita in the terrarium
  by M. Thums

- 79 REPORTAGE
  Antaresia maculosa (PETERS, 1873)
  Spotted python
  by D. Hasselberg

- 85 CLASSIFIED ADS

- 90 RAT & TAT

- 93 LIBRARY

104 GLOSSES
In search of Uracentron azureum
Part 1
by H. Werning

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