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Reptiles and Amphibians 12/11/2016 REPTILES AND REPTILES AMPHIBIANS SNAKES, LIZARDS AND CHELONIANS COMMON SNAKES SNAKES BOA CONSTRICTOR SUNGLOW BOA CONSTRICTOR RED TAILED BOA CONSTRICTOR COMMON SNAKES COMMON SNAKES BOA CONSTRICTOR BURMESE PYTHON EMERALD TREE BOA CONSTRICTOR ALBINO BURMESE PYTHON STRIPED BURMESE PYTHON 1 12/11/2016 COMMON SNAKES COMMON SNAKES MILK SNAKE MILK SNAKE HONDURAN MILK SNAKE EASTERN MILK SNAKE PUEBLAN MILK SNAKE COMMON SNAKES COMMON SNAKES KING SNAKE KING SNAKE GRAY BANDED KINGSNAKE CALIFORNIA KINGSNAKE ARIZONA KINGSNAKE COMMON SNAKES COMMON SNAKES CORN SNAKE GARTER SNAKE ALBINO CORNSNAKE EASTERN GARTER SNAKE COMMON GARTER SNAKE COMMON CORN SNAKE 2 12/11/2016 COMMON SNAKES SNAKES ANACONDA • ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY • DIET, NUTRITION, HUSBANDRY • COMMON DISEASES, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT GREEN ANACONDA YELLOW ANACONDA ANATOMY AND ORIGIN PHYSIOLOGY •WILD CAUGHT •CAPTIVE BRED • THE EYES ARE MOST NOTICEABLE WITH A SHED SKIN • THE BECOME OPAQUE OR BLUE IN COLOR • OUTER LAYER SKIN • SHOULD NOT BE HANDLED OR • MOSTLY KERATIN OR DEAD MATERIAL • INCAPABLE OF EXPANDING WITH GROWTH FED DURING A SHED BECAUSE • SECRETES LUBRICATE UNDER OUTERMOST THEIR SENSES ARE DULLED LAYER TO HELP WITH SHED • INNER LAYER • SHED IN ONE PIECE • ABNORMAL IF THEY DO NOT • SHEDDING 3 12/11/2016 JAW JAW • LOOSELY • LOWER JAW IS NOT FUSED CONNECTED CRANIAL WHICH ALLOWS FOR EXTRA FLEX BONES TO SWALLOW LARGER PREY • MANDIBLE NOT • MANDIBLE LACKS MANDIBULAR FUSED SYMPHYSIS AND HAS AN • INTRAMANDIBULAR INTRAMANDIBULAR HINGE HINGE (QUADRATE BONE) JAW LOCOMOTION • 4 DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOCOMOTION • CONCERTINA: • BUNCHING AND LENGTHENING • CONCERTINA IS USEFUL FOR CLIMBING • SERPENTINE: • LATERAL UNDULATION • SERPENTINE IS THE MOST COMMON AND THE FASTEST. • MUSCLES CONTRACT AND PRODUCE A SERIES OF WAVES LOCOMOTION LOCOMOTION • SIDEWINDING: • CATERPILLAR: • MOVING LOOP OF BODY OFF THE • VERTICAL UNDULATION GROUND • CATERPILLAR USED IN LARGE BODIES • SIDEWINDING IS COMMON IN SNAKES WHERE SCALES GRIP THE DESERT SPECIES TO KEEP THEM GROUND TO HELP WITH MOVEMENT FROM SLIPPING IN LOOSE SAND • USEFUL FOR ANY SNAKE IN SMALL • LIFT A LOOP OF THE BODY CLEAR SPACES LIKE BURROWS OFF THE GROUND AS IT MOVES SIDEWAYS 4 12/11/2016 CARDIOVASCULAR CARDIOVASCULAR • LOCATION AND ANATOMY • THE RENAL PORTAL SYSTEM IS LIKE A • WE KNOW ARTERIES CARRY BLOOD DEPENDANT ON SPECIES SUB-UNIT. AWAY FROM THE HEART AND THE VEINS CARRY BLOOD TO THE HEART • A SECONDARY ROUTE THAT MOVES BLOOD THROUGH THE BACK HALF OF A • BLOOD MOVES FROM THE AORTA TO THE REPTILES BODY MOVING THE BLOOD • 1/3 OF THE WAY DOWN THE KIDNEYS WHICH BRANCHES INTO THROUGH THE KIDNEYS BEFORE IT BODY SMALLER CAPILLARIES EXCHANGING CIRCULATES TO THE HEART OXYGEN AND FILTERING WASTE PRODUCTS • RENAL PORTAL SYSTEM CARDIOVASCULAR RESPIRATORY • BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THE • RIGHT LUNG KIDNEY AND IT’S FUNCTION MEDICATIONS • FUNCTIONING NEED TO BE GIVEN IN THE FRONT ½ TO 2/3 OF THE BODY. • ½ THE LENGTH OF THE BODY • BIRDS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS AND FISH • LEFT LUNG • NONFUNCTIONING • MUCH SMALLER DIGESTIVE EYES • CLOACA • EYES • FUSED TO FORM A TRANSPARENT • COMMON COLLECTING CHAMBER OF SPECTACLE DIGESTIVE AND GENITOURINARY TRACTS • VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION DUE TO STRIATED MUSCLE • YELLOW ARROWS ARE POINTING TO THE LABIAL PITS WHERE THE HEAT SENSING ORGANS ARE • SPECTACLE IS OPAQUE OR BLUE • SHEDS WHEN ANIMAL SHEDS 5 12/11/2016 JACOBSON’S EXING ORGAN S • VOMERONASAL SENSE • CONNECTED TO ORAL CAVITY • DETECT NON-AERIAL, • PROBE TO DETERMINE IF NONVOLATILE PARTICULATE MALES OR FEMALE ODORS PICKED UP BY CHEMO-RECEPTORS ON FORKED TONGUE SEXING SEXING • POPPING OF HEMIPENE IN • SPURS IN MALE BOAS AND MALES PYTHONS HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & REPRODUCTION NUTRITION OVIPAROUS VIVIPAROUS • 5 QUESTIONS TO ASK • SIZE OF SNAKE • TERRESTRIAL OR ARBOREAL • SECURITY • PROPER VENTILATION • DOES IT ALLOW FOR PROPER CLEANING/DISINFECTION 6 12/11/2016 HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION NUTRITION • CAGE • SUBSTRATE • ARBOREAL OR TERRESTRIAL • ASTROTURF OR NEWSPAPER • AVOID CEDAR, PINE AND GRAVEL HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION NUTRITION • HEAT • WATER • REPTILES ARE ECTOTHERMS • HIDE BOXES • POTZ (PREFERRED OPTIMAL TEMPERATURE ZONE) • HEAT LIGHTS OR UNDER THE TANK HEATER (UTH) • NO HEAT ROCKS • 12:12 CYCLE HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION NUTRITION • DIET • DIET • MADE TO DIGEST WHOLE PREY • FREQUENCY DEPENDS ON SNAKE • THEY CAST OUT OR DEFECATE • REASONS FOR NOT EATING MATERIAL NOT DIGESTED SUCH AS • TOO COLD FUR • NOT HUNGRY • COMPANIES NOW BREED SPECIFICALLY FOR FOOD ITEM • ABOUT TO SHED • OFFER PREY THAT IS NO BIGGER • SICK THAN THE BIGGEST PART OF THE SNAKES BODY • PREKILLED IS IDEAL 7 12/11/2016 COMMON LIZARDS LIZARDS IGUANA COMMON LIZARDS COMMON LIZARDS BEARDED DRAGON GECKO COASTAL BEARDED DRAGON LEOPARD GECKO TOKAY GECKO CENTRAL BEARDED DRAGON COMMON LIZARDS COMMON LIZARDS ANOLE ANOLE BROWN ANOLE BLUE ANOLE GREEN ANOLE 8 12/11/2016 COMMON LIZARDS COMMON LIZARDS CHAMELEONS CHAMELEONS JACKSON’S CHAMELEON VEILED CHAMELEON COMMON CHAMELEON COMMON LIZARDS COMMON LIZARDS MONITOR • CHAMELEONS • KNOWN FOR THEIR TONGUE GREEN TREE MONITOR SAVANNAH MONITOR COMMON LIZARDS COMMON LIZARDS MONITOR SKINK RIDGE TAIL MONITOR SOUTH EASTERN 5-LINED BLUE TONGUE SKINK 9 12/11/2016 COMMON LIZARDS LIZARDS SKINK • 3800 SPECIES • HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR • MOST MEDICAL ISSUES ARISE FROM IMPROPER HUSBANDRY ISSUES FIRE SKINK LIZARD ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY SCALES • KEELED/UN-KEELED • IMPERMEABLE SCALES TEETH • ECDYSIS • TEETH • ACRODONT • SHEDDING • ATTACHED TO SURFACE • EFFECTING FACTORS • NO SOCKETS • AGE • NOT REPLACED WHEN LOST • GROWTH RATE • PLEURODONT • TEMPERATURE • ATTACHED TO LINGUAL SURFACE • HUMIDITY • NO SOCKET • REPLACED WHEN LOST • NUTRITION 10 12/11/2016 TAIL CARDIOVASCULAR • TAIL AUTOTOMY • CARDIOVASCULAR • LOSS OR RELEASE OF TAIL • 3 CHAMBER HEART • REGENERATES TAIL • USUALLY SMALLER AND DARKER • LARGE VENTRAL ABDOMINAL IN COLOR AND TAIL VEIN • RENAL-PORTAL SYSTEM RESPIRATORY DIGESTION • RESPIRATORY • TONGUES • NO DIAPHRAGM • CARNIVOROUS • HERBIVOROUS • COMMON COELOMIC CAVITY RATHER THAN SEPARATE THORACIC AND ABDOMINAL CAVITIES • CLOACA • SAME AS SNAKES • BREATHE BY RIB EXPANSION BY CONTRACTION OF INTERCOSTAL MUSCLES • LIVER AND GALL BLADDER ARE CRANIAL TO THE STOMACH EYES SEXING • MOVABLE EYELIDS AND EWLAP NICTITATING MEMBRANE • D • MALE • MUSCLES IN IRIS ARE • ATTRACT FEMALES STRIATED AND UNDER CONSCIOUS CONTROL • PROTECTION • PARIETAL EYE OR THIRD EYE- DORSAL HEAD 11 12/11/2016 SEXING SEXING HEMIPENE BULGE(S) THE MALE (LEFT) CLEARLY SHOWS THE HEMIPENAL BULGES, WHICH CAUSES AN INDENTATION IN THE CENTER OF THE TAIL. FEMALES (RIGHT) WILL HAVE A SLIGHT PROTRUSION DUE TO THE LACK OF HEMIPENES. SEXING HUSBANDRY • FEMORAL PORES ON • KNOW NATURAL HISTORY MALES • NATIVE HABITAT AND MICROHABITAT • ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY • DIET • BEHAVIOR HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION • CAGING • SUBSTRATE • ARBOREAL • NEWSPAPER • TERRESTRIAL • INDOOR/OUTDOOR CARPET 12 12/11/2016 HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION • HEAT • LIGHTING • REPTILES ARE ECTOTHERMS • MOST REPTILES REQUIRE • POTZ (PREFERRED OPTIMAL ULTRAVIOLET ( UV-B) FOR TEMPERATURE ZONE) VITAMIN D3 SYNTHESIS AND • HEAT LIGHTS OR UNDER THE TANK SUBSEQUENT CALCIUM HEATER (UTH) ABSORPTION FROM THE GI TRACT • NO HEAT ROCKS • 12:12 CYCLE • BASKING AREA HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION • LAST 6 MONTHS • WATER • UVB BULB MAY STILL WORK BUT • HUMIDITY GRADIENT THE UVB COMPONENT IS • VAPORIZERS, ELECTRONIC EXHAUSTED. REPLACE EVERY MISTERS, HAND MISTING FALL/WINTER/SPRING • GIVE WATER IN FORM THEY • PUT THEM IN OUTSIDE WOULD DRINK- DRIP OR DISH ENCLOSURES FOR A COUPLE HOURS A WEEK IN SUMMER • SOAK IS GOOD HERE IN UTAH DUE MONTHS TO LACK OF HUMIDITY HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION • HIDE BOXES • NEED TO LOOK AT NATIVE DIET • LIGHT AND HEAT GREATLY EFFECT NUTRITIONAL HEALTH SO PROPER HUSBANDRY IS ALSO FACTOR 13 12/11/2016 HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION CHELONIANS • OMNIVORE • HERBIVORES • PLANT PROTEIN AND CA:P RATIO • INSECTIVORES • NOT WILD INSECTS • CARNIVORES • LIVE VERTEBRATES SLIDERS AND PAINTERS BOX TURTLES EASTERN BOX TURTLE ORNATE BOX TURTLE RED –EARED SLIDER PAINTED TURTLE TORTOISES SULCOTAS THEY GROW FROM HATCHLING SIZE (2-3 THE AFRICAN SULCATA OR AFRICAN INCHES) VERY QUICKLY, REACHING 6-10 BURMESE STAR TORTOISE AFRICAN SPUR SIDE SPURRED TORTOISE CAN GROW VERY INCHES (15-25 CM) WITHIN THE FIRST FEW LARGE, WEIGHING 80-110 POUNDS. YEARS OF THEIR LIVES. 14 12/11/2016 HINGEBACKS ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY BELL’S HINGEBACK TORTOISE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY CARAPACE TOP OF SHELL SHELL • NU – NUCHAL (THE BACK OR NAPE OF THE NECK) CARAPACE (TOP OF THE SHELL) • VE- VERTEBRAL PLASTRON (BOTTOM OF THE) SHELL • CO - COSTAL • MA - MARGINAL SCUTES (THE KERATINIZED EPITHELIUM THAT COVERS AND PROTECTS THE BONE) • SU - SUPRACAUDAL 15 12/11/2016 PLASTRON (BOTTOM SHELL) CARDIOVASCULAR, RESPIRATORY AND ORAL • GU - GULAR • CARDIOVASCULAR HREE CHAMBERED HEART • (THE UPPER PART OF THE THROAT OR • T GULLET OR FORWARD PART OF THE NECK) • RESPIRATORY UNGS ATTACHED TO • HU - HUMERAL • L CARAPACE • PE - PECTORAL • ORAL • AB - ABDOMINAL • BEAK SIMILAR TO A BIRD • FE - FEMORAL • AN - ANAL • RENAL PORTAL SYSTEM SEXING SEXING • FEMALES • PLASTRON NOT CONCAVE • SHORTER TAIL • TOP OF SHELL MAY BE SMOOTHER NEAR THE REAR END • MALES • CONCAVE PLASTRON • LONGER TAIL HOUSING, HUSBANDRY & NUTRITION • AQUATIC NEEDS • CAGE • FILTERED WATER TANK AS WELLAS DRY BASKING AREA • CAREFUL
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