Keeping Snakes by David Manning

Keeping Snakes by David Manning

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This advice book on keeping snakes covers housing and maintaining a healthy environment for your pet, dietary needs and suitable food, handling and common behavioural characteristics. The book contains useful hints and tips about the most popular and often collected snakes.

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Keeping Snakes by David Manning

This is the third title in an exciting new series of highly illustrated guides for the younger buyer on responsible pet ownership of the more unusual creatures which are becoming increasingly popular. In Keeping Snakes there is advice on housing and maintaining a healthy environment for your pet, dietary needs and suitable food, handling and common behaviour characteristics. You will find interesting and amazing facts, practical information and useful hints and tips about the most popular and often collected snakes. With more than 60 specially commissioned colour photographs, sound practical advice and many interesting projects Keeping Snakes is invaluable for the younger buyer of snakes. Chapter Breakdown: Introduction 1. Anatomy of a Snake 2. Accommodation 3. Foods and Feeding 4. The Snakes 5. Snake Quiz 6. Record Card Index
David Manning has spent his life with animals and has always been interested in more unusual and exotic pets. He started out working for a company supplying zoos and the pet trade with specialist advice, equipment and livestock. Due to the increasing interest from the public in more unusual animals David helped to establish London's leading herpetological centre, now one of many such stores. David's current company, Animal Ark, co-ordinate and advise film makers and photographers on using animals and they also provide and handle animals for them.
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ISBN 13 9780004134130
ISBN 10 0004134133
Title Keeping Snakes
Author David Manning
Series Collins Unusual Pets S
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2000-11-06
Number of pages 64
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.