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Herpetology

By: F. H. Pough Robin M. Andrews John E. Cadle Martha L. Crump Alan H. Savitsky Kentwood D. Wells
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
ISBN: 0131008498
ISBN-13: 9780131008496
Released: 21 Aug 2003
RRP: £40.99
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Herpetology - By: , 03 Nov 2004
An interesting work by various authors. A single volume could never encompass alll aspects of a particular field (in this case herpetology) but this book comes pretty close. Aimed more at budding & practising biologists rather than the hobbyist, it still is of value to herpetoculturists as knowledge is always beneficial in understanding some of the machanics of how & why organisms do what they do. Anyone interested in herptiles will find this book to be a great source of information.
Best of what's available - By: , 22 Oct 1998
Despite some fairly serious errors & omissions, this book is the best academic treatment of the field of herpetology yet written. It is a multi-authored text which alllows people to write on what they know best, rather than making authors stretch well beyond their fields of expertise. This unfortunately means there's a lot of repetition between chapters, & some flat-out contradictions. It does a fairly good of reviewing the literature in a number of sub-fields of herpetology, & so provides more up-to-date reviews than you're likely to find in "Biology of the Reptilia". It is a good choice for a herpetology course for undergraduates--in fact I plan to use it for such a course in summer 1999. Amazing omissions: dinosaurs!! birds!! biogeography!! Notable inclusions: good chapters on foraging ecology, classification (too short), & thermoregulation.