Wildlife Demonstrations, Emergency Consultancy &
Wildlife Management, Photography, Wildlife Books & Giftware
Through our achievements as authors, educators and wildlife demonstrators we share the knowledge we have accumulated through a life-long learning experience and a passion for reptiles, while through our photos we hope to convey the beauty and diversity our lenses capture of our surrounding flora and fauna.
Our Publications
Forthcoming Publications in 2024
A Field Guide to the Snakes of Australia
A fully comprehensive field guide to the species and subspecies of snakes in Australia: file snakes, pythons, colubrids, natracines, elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids and blindsnakes.
The introduction covers snakes in the environment, snake-bite prevention and first aid, habitats, glossary and identification diagrams.
Each species is illustrated with photographs, some species have multiple images, showing variation among each species. There is an introduction to each family and genus and dichotomous keys to each family, genus species and subspecies for identification.
The species descriptions include the common English name, the current scientific name and how to pronounce it, a distribution map, and details of etymology, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level and the IUCN Red List Category.
There is also a species checklist, a venom toxicity table and guidance on what to do if you encounter a stranded sea snake or if you find a snake at your home.
A Naturalist's Guide to the Dangerous Creatures of Australia
This revised, easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 species of dangerous creature most commonly seen in Australia is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from Australia’s top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers the geography and climate of Australia, types of habitat, and details of orders and families. Also included is an all-important checklist of all of the dangerous creatures of Australia encompassing, for each species, its common and scientific name, and its global IUCN status as at 2023
Extremely exciting news for us - we have had our latest book selected to be added to the Princeton Field Guide series.
Pictured is the USA only version of the forthcoming Field Guide to the Snakes of Australia being released in late September. At this time the Princeton Field Guide is set to be released in February 2025.
Previously, the only Australian herp book released this way was the first edition to the complete reptiles of Australia by Steve Wilson and Gerry Swan in 2003.
Whilst on a working holiday in Germany for the release of Australasian Elapids, we were presented with a fantastic business prospect, and we jumped at the opportunity. We have teamed up with the team at Chimaira and are their Australian distributors. We thought expanding the range of books we already carried was the next natural step, so we started an online bookshop, focusing on terrarium animals such as reptiles, amphibians and spiders.
Explore out our selection of natural history books in our online shop -
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Owning the online bookshop has presented us with some incredible opportunities (and I don't just mean Scott's growing shelves!) We wanted to share with our customers the awe-inspiring people we have met along the way over the years and the knowledge they have accumulated in their chosen fields, and also chat with like-minded people we haven't had the opportunity to meet yet. The only way we could think of doing this was with a podcast. Called Cold-blooded Contributions, it is all about the amazing people in our field who have creatively made a positive impact on us all - be it artistically, authoring books or papers, podcasts or YouTube channels or advancing us in husbandry.
All podcasts will be also be available in blog form for those that aren't into podcasts or prefer to read content over listening to it. Please bear with me, this is a much bigger task than I anticipated, so it is taking a bit longer than I would like. To read the podcasts, jump over to our blog.
Scott and Tyese Eipper have had extensive experience with these challenging snakes — finding them, catching them, keeping them in captivity and breeding them. Add to this knowledge their outstanding photographic skills and we have here a comprehensive, authoritative, and beautifully illustrated volume that provides all the critical information needed for the successful maintenance.
Dr. Hal Cogger
Huge shout to Scott Eipper and Tie Eipper for these amazing books that were wrapped with love and several layers of packing. Would have to be the best wrapped books I've ever received and I highly recommend buying from them! - Peter Birch
This book is a benchmark for all forthcoming books, not only on venomous snakes, but snakes in general. The width and depth of information presented is unrivaled. The combination of first-hand knowledge on the ecology, result of long time studies in the nature, and keeping and breeding is outstanding.
Andreas S. Brahm
