| Herpetology | 
 enlarge | Authors: F. H. Pough, Robin M. Andrews, John E. Cadle, Martha L. Crump, Alan H. Savitsky, Kentwood D. Wells
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Category: Book
Buy New: £40.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 430462
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 736
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0131008498
Dewey Decimal Number: 597.9
EAN: 9780131008496
ASIN: 0131008498
Publication Date: August 21, 2003
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 Herpetology November 3, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An interesting work by various authors. A single volume could never encompass all aspects of a particular field (in this case herpetology) but this book comes pretty close. Aimed more at budding and 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 and 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 October 22, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Despite some fairly serious errors and omissions, this book is the best academic treatment of the field of herpetology yet written. It is a multi-authored text which allows 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, and some flat-out contradictions. It does a fairly good of reviewing the literature in a number of sub-fields of herpetology, and 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.
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