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Breeding and rearing of snakes in zoos - trend and distribution analysis
PROSTÝ, Vojtěch
This thesis deals with the breeding of snakes from the families Boidae and Pythonidae in zoos around the world and focuses on the author's analysis of the success of their breeding and rearing. The thesis also gives a brief description of snakes as a whole group, the role of snakes on the planet, their evolutionary development, the protection of snakes and a description of the families Boidae and Pythonidae. Within the complexity of the problem, the thesis provides information on the history of zoos, the history of snake breeding in zoos and basic principles for the successful breeding of snakes. Last but not least, the thesis explains in more detail concepts such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Using the created graphs with comments, the thesis presents the acquired and processed data.
Using key of Pythons
PETRŮ, Vojtěch
Pythonidae (pythons) belongs to order Squamata (lizards and snakes) and suborder Serpentes (snakes). Pythonidae live in Africa, Asia, Australia and near islands. Today, they are very popular business article, because they have huge body and atractive colorful designs on theirs skin. For this reason was made this work. Purpose of this work is facilitate distinguish species of Pithonidae. It selectes 21 species, which corresponding with real trade in Czech Republic. For this species was made using key and independent text with Picture. In the and the key has been tested in practice in public and improper ambiguities were removed.

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