VPI Publications
This Publications section of VPI.com is where we place articles relevant to the care and husbandry of snakes, a place where our readers can find solid and current information and answers to questions and problems that are encountered in the day-to-day maintenance of snakes.
We also will post a series of article on the care and maintenance of a variety of species of snakes. We will try to place some articles here that regard snakes about which
We welcome our readers to submit articles that they have written, as well. Please send articles to the Dave the editor and webmaster at vpi@beecreek.net.
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Recent VPI Publications
- The Precautionary Principle and Pythons (34.52 KB PDF)
David G. Barker and Tracy M. Barker
The Occasional Papers of Vida Preciosa International, no. 2. (2010) An explanation of why S373 is not appropriate or justified.
- A Review: Giant Constrictors: Reed, R. and G. Rodda. 2010. (290.66 KB PDF)
David G. Barker and Tracy M. Barker
Posted in advance with permission from the Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society.
- The Reptile Nation and the Importance of USARK (23.95 KB PDF)
David G. Barker and Tracy M. Barker
Text from the article printed in December 2009 issue of Reptiles.
- On Burmese Pythons in the Everglades (revised) (1021.81 KB PDF)
David G. Barker and Tracy M. Barker
Questions posed and answered about Burmese pythons in south Florida
- Review: Reducing the Risks of the Wildlife Trade (231.31 KB PDF)
David G. Barker and Tracy M. Barker
A review of an articlepublished in Science 324:94-95 by Smith, Behrens, Schoegel, Marano, Burgiel, and Daszak (2009).
- TJB Written Testimony regarding HR-669 (1.19 MB PDF)
April 23, 2009, Tracy M. Barker
Regarding the Anti-Animal proposal, HR-669
- DGB Testimony to HR-669 Subcommittee (43.74 KB PDF)
April 23, 2009, David G. Barker
Entered into the record of the meeting 4/23/09
- The Maintenance and Reproduction of the Dwarf Python of Angola and Namibia (2.62 MB PDF)
January 01, 1995, Dave and Tracy Barker
Scanned from the original, published in The Vivarium 7(1)
- Will they come in out of the cold? Observations of large constrictors in cool and cold conditions (495.32 KB PDF)
June 26, 2008, Dave Barker
Published in the Bulletin of the Chicago Herp Society
- Review: An Ecological Risk Assessment of Nonnative Boas and Pythons as Potentially Invasive Species in the US (295.91 KB PDF)
review
- Dave Barker's response to the USF&W Notice of Inquiry (83.84 KB PDF)
Dave Barker
Dave's response
- Tracy Barker's Response to the USF&W Notice of Inquiry (25.53 KB PDF)
Tracy Barker
Tracy's response
- An Open Letter to Dr Snow Regarding the Origins of the Pythons in Everglades National Park (75.56 KB PDF)
On the origin of Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park
- The Distribution of the Burmese Python, Python molurus bivittatus (1.55 MB PDF)
March 26, 2008
A map, explanation, and biblography on the distribution of the Burmese python
- Comments on a Flawed Herpetological Paper and an Improper and Damaging News Release from a Government Agency (257.46 KB PDF)
Comments on the analysis of Rodda, Jarnevich and Reed that indicates the climate of the southern third of the United States is suitable for Burmese pythons, and the USGS news release.
