The Pythons of Asia and the Malay Archipelago
By David G. Barker, Mark Auliya, and Tracy M. Barker
This coffee table book is primarily a book of beautiful photographs of the pythons of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Sarawak and Sabah, Timor Leste, Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. Twenty-nine species are included with many of the pictures in situ, range maps, descriptions, and natural history. To further make this book a must-have are the glossary, appendix, references, and further reading information. 371 pages. This is Volume III in the Pythons of World series.
Here is the Table of Contents so you may know the depth of knowledge contained in this book.
Table of Contents
1) Recent Developments in Rattlesnake Phylogenetics, Phylogeography, and Species Delimitation
WOLFGANG WÜSTER
2) A Role for Genomics in Rattlesnake Research: Current Knowledge and Future Potential
DREW R. SCHIELD, DAREN C. CARD, JACOBO REYES-VELASCO, AUDRA L. ANDREW, CASSANDRA A.MODAHL, STEPHEN P. MACKESSY, DAVID D. POLLOCK, AND TODD A. CASTOE
3) Deciphering the Evolution of Venom and the Venom Apparatus in Rattlesnakes
STEPHEN P. MACKESSY AND TODD A. CASTOE
4) The Hunting and Feeding Behavior of Wild Rattlesnakes
RULON W. CLARK
5) Rattlesnakes as Models for Reproductive Studies of Vertebrates
EMILY N. TAYLOR AND WARREN BOOTH
6) Social Behavior of Rattlesnakes: A Shifting Paradigm
GORDON W. SCHUETT, RULON W. CLARK, ROGER A. REPP, MELISSA AMARELLO, CHARLES F. SMITH, AND HARRY W. GREENE
7) The Origin and Evolution of the Rattlesnake Rattle: Misdirection, Clarification, Theory, and Progress
RANDALL S. REISERER AND GORDON W. SCHUETT
8) Structure, Ontogeny, and Evolutionary Development of the Rattlesnake Rattle
JESSE M. MEIK AND GORDON W. SCHUETT
9) The Rattle: A Window on Rattlesnake Life Histories
RANDALL S. REISERER
10) Novel Tracking, Remote Monitoring Technologies, and Their Application to Rattlesnakes
STEVEN J. BEAUPRE
11) Rattlesnakes in Syntopy: A Case Study from Arizona
ERIKA M. NOWAK AND GORDON W. SCHUETT
12) Rattlesnake Conservation in the 21st Century
ERIKA M. NOWAK AND HARRY W. GREENE
13) A Molecular Perspective on Conservation: Rattlesnakes as Models
HANS-WERNER HERRMANN
