Beautiful looking habitat; it reminds me a lot of the northern parts of Okinawa. I never had much luck roadcruising the snakes in pristine forests, but the edge habitats were quite productive. That steep terrain makes field herping the mountains quite difficult, and purely dangerous in some cases.
Great idea on a book. Actually, I was going to suggest to you (and Don for Korea) that perhaps a good start would be a simple website on the snakes of Taiwan.
You could get a free webspace, I use yahoo geocities, but there are plenty of others. With even a free account, you could probably put up a pic or two, at say 640 x 480, for all snake species native to Taiwan, and add all the text you want for each species account.
I don't know if you've tried to make a free webpage or not, but after a couple of hours, you'll get the hang of it. If you have the pics and general info at hand, it wouldn't take you long to pump out a very decent account on the snakes of Taiwan. If you titled it "The Snakes of Taiwan," it would pop up at the top of the list for the same search on google.
When I'm in a position to do so, I want to make a basic natural history website (English version) on the herps of Japan. There's some good literature about, but internet-wise, I'd like to put more information out there for the general, English speaking public.

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