Tortoise and Turtle Books
Popular Tortoises. Newly Updated
Author: Philippe de Vosjoli Format: Soft cover, 8½ x 5½ inches, 70 pages ISBN: 1-882770-66-8 Tortoises are among the most endangered families of reptiles, and owning one should be considered a privilege. This book covers care and husbandry of the most popular and commonly imported tortoises. Selection, sexing, acclimation, housing design and landscaping, feeding and watering, hibernation, species, diseases and disorders, salmonella, hygiene and more.
£8.99
Pet Owner's Guide to the Tortoise AUTHOR: Simon J Girling ISBN: 1-86054-119-4 70 Colour photographs and Illustrations pp: 80: Hardback Size: 214mm x 142mm. Publication: February 2003 Britain's best-selling series of hardback books about pets.Written by experts, combining in-depth, up-to-date information with fabulous photography.All at a budget price, these books are an unbeatable package One of a series of books. Each title contains information on how to choose a healthy pet, choosing the right housing, establishing a regular routine of care, and advice on feeding and exercise. In addition, special attention is paid to health care and preventative treatments, while breeding from your pet is also discussed.
£6.99
The African Spurred Tortoise, Geochelone sulcata in Captivity. Russ Gurley ISBN: 1-885209-25-8 pp 80 2002. Despite their very large size as adults, these tortoises can inspire individual keepers and entire families. By keeping them properly, children and adults learn respect for a living animal and its needs.
£9.99
Hartmut Wilke Complete Pet Owner's Manual. This handsomely illustrated book presents a wealth of information on the purchase, housing, and general care of tortoises and box turtles. Books in the Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series present basic information about pets for new or soon-to-be owners, as well as detailed information for other animal hobbyists. Advice and instruction covers purchase, equipment, general care and maintenance, and much more. Texts emphasize the basics and are easy for all readers to understand, but most titles in this series also present facts that even experienced owners and hobbyists will find new and useful. All books in this series are filled with high quality full-color photos and instructive line drawings.
£9.99
Harmut Wilke Family Pet Series All books in the Family Pet Series offer sound basic information to individuals and families for whom pet ownership is a new experience. Each book presents information on selecting, purchasing, and caring for an animal. Special Children's Corner sidebars feature graphics and information especially written with children's pet interests in mind. All Family Pet books are profusely illustrated with full-color photos and artwork, and all are written in clear, non-technical language. This volume advises on care of turtles and tortoises, and tells how to distinguish one from the other. Freshwater tortoises have higher and more rounded shell shapes than pet freshwater turtles, and unlike turtles, they do not swim. This manual instructs on best places to obtain turtles and tortoises, what to feed them, how to set up a minipond, how to understand the animal's body language, and even how to breed them.
£8.99
Holger Vetter. 96 Pages 450 Colour photographs. English and German text. The first volume of the Terralog series, designed to cover all reptile and amphibian species and subspecies, shows for the first time all recognised, and even many yet undescribed, turtle and tortoise species or subspecies inhabiting Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Wherever possible not just a single specimen is shown in addition, sexual dimorphism, carapace and plastron patterns, pictures of mating, oviposition, hatching and, of course, typical habitats are presented. With each species you will find a description on symbols of its individual needs for captive husbandry. This Terralog debut volume with a total of 450 colour pictures provides a unique photographic reference for scientists, as well as hobbyists, and a fascinating synopsis of the beauty of turtles and tortoises.
£29.99
Turtles of the World Vol 2 North America The second volume in this superb series. As with volume 1 the photos in this guide are simply fantastic, all species of North American turtles and tortoises are covered. Unlike the first volume, each species also has a distribution map which are simply the best I have seen. This book will prove particularly useful to keepers of many of the new species of slider turtles appearing in the trade. Over 500 full colour photos, this book represents excellent value.
£29.99
