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Travel in East Africa in the years 1903-1905 with funds from the Hermann and Elise born Heckmann Wentzel Foundation 

By  Voeltzkow, Alfred, 1860 -

Publication info Stuttgart: E. Swiss Bartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1906 - 1923.

This is regarding established adult ball pythons after quadruple checking that your husbandry parameter basics like heat, humidity, etc are correct. Also these are just things that have worked for me personally.

-Trying a different rodent supplier.

-Trying a different color of feeder

-Trying a different size of feeder. Just one step smaller or one step larger than you usually offer.

-Trying to scent your feeder. For me it was rubbing a f/t m.ouse on my f/t r.at. 

New additions in their quarantine setup, still needs a bit more foliage. Glad I finally got some of this species.

BHL Book Feature: Gecko Toes!

Gecko toes have fascinated herpetologists, physicists, and engineers for a long time. If you’ve ever had the occasion to watch them, you know that they can scurry along walls and even suspend themselves from ceilings with such ease! Duméril and Bibron shared in this fascination with detailed black-and-white illustrations of gecko toes byJean-Gabriel Prêtre. Here’s a close up from our featured illustration of a Lined Flat-tailed Gecko (Uroplatus lineatus).

So what is it about gecko toes that make them so sticky? Geckos have tiny hairs called “setae” on their toes that rely on van der Waals forces to create suction. With a multitude of these hairs acting together on the nanoscale level, geckos can stick and unstick seamlessly! Researchers have been studying this ability for applications in adhesives, particularly in space and in robots. 

Gecko toes vary widely in shape, size, and layout, which you can easily see in this plate which contains 8 different species. Here is the breakdown by figure.

FIGURE 1: Seychelles Bronze Gecko (Ailuronyx seychellensis) FIGURE 2: Blue-tailed Day Gecko (Phelsuma cepediana) FIGURE 3: White-spotted Wall Gecko (Tarentola annularis) FIGURE 4: Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko) FIGURE 5: Kuhl’s Flying Gecko (Ptychozoon kuhli) FIGURE 6: New Caledonia Giant Gecko (Rhacodactylus leachianus). FIGURE 7: Big Tree Gecko (Gehyra oceanica) FIGURE 8: Dakota’s Leaf-toed Gecko (Hemidactylus triedrus)

Yellow-headed day gecko (Phelsuma klemmeri).

Credit: Matthew Schaefer‎

Leaf Tail Gecko 1 by [ CK ] on Flickr.