Welcome to the first Tarantula-themed episode of Urban Jungles Radio! In this edition you’ll find out about some new leggy updates as well as listen in to an interview with Dr. Brent Hendrixson of Millsaps College who is one of the country’s leading researchers on native U.S. Tarantulas belonging to the genus Aphonopelma . For more information on Dr. Hendrixson’s work please visit the following links:

http://www.millsaps.edu/biology/individualresearch.shtml

http://core.ecu.edu/biol/bondja/

http://www.atshq.org/articles/found.html

http://www.nsf.gov/

In this episode you can listen to me rant about responsible Tree Boa ownership and you’ll be rewarded by an interview with Dr Robert Henderson (A.K.A. - Bob) of the Milwaukee Public Museum who has made major contributions to Corallus research. Dr. Henderson has authored numerous papers and popular articles on Corallus and other West Indian herpetofauna. Bob has also authored several books (of which I own every one and he needs to autograph) published by Kreiger Publishing.

In this episode I will review my procedures for caring for neonate treeboas during the first fragile week of life and later on I’ll sit and talk to Rico Walder of Signal Herp and find out what’s new in Corallus this season at his facility and also talk a little bit about some of his cages and equipment!

Rico is one of the premiere breeders in this country for treeboas and green tree pythons. Check out this great interview!

For more info visit www.SignalHerp.com

In my second Podcast installment, you’ll hear an impromptu interview with Mike Heinrich the “Boaking of Chicago” and I’ll also discuss some general aspects of proper treeboa feeding and digestion as well as what to look for when your snake is sick. Do you know your crap?

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