This lightweight and portable guide covers the 150 reptiles and 80
amphibians you are most likely to encounter across the five
countries of East Africa--Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and
Burundi. Encompassing a wealth of landscapes rare in tropical
Africa, from deserts to rain forests to snow-capped mountains, this
vast region is home to such famous national parks and game reserves
as the Serengeti and the Selous in Tanzania and the Tsavo and the
Maro in Kenya. Here you will find a corresponding wealth of
secretive yet often unwittingly conspicuous tortoises, lizards,
crocodiles, snakes, and frogs. Reptiles and Amphibians of East
Africa offers concise and accessible, identification-oriented text,
color photographs, and color distribution maps for each
species.
Distilled and adapted in part from the highly acclaimed A Field
Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa by the same authors, this new
guide is pocket-size, easy to use, and affordably priced. Reptiles
and Amphibians of East Africa is an indispensable resource for any
ecotourist, anyone on safari, and even the casual visitor to the
region, all of whom will see many of these species without even
hunting for them.
This is a good book to have if you like reptiles and amphibians and there is a trip to East Africa in your future. Wildlife Activist
Stephen Spawls, Kim Howell, and Robert C. Drewes are the coauthors, with James Ashe, of "A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa" (Princeton). Stephen Spawls is the author of checklists to both the snakes and lizards of Kenya. Kim Howell, Professor of Zoology and Marine Biology at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is a coauthor of a checklist to the reptiles and amphibians of Tanzania. Robert C. Drewes is Curator and Chairman of the Department of Herpetology of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
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From the contents: - Acknowledgements - Introduction - How to use this book - East African reptiles and amphibians and their zoogeography - Observing and collecting reptiles and amphibians - Conservation - Safety and reptiles - Identifying reptiles - Identifying amphibians - About the authors - Tortoises, Turtles and Terrapins - Lizards and Worm Lizards - Crocodiles - Snakes - Frogs and Toads- Caecilians - Glossary - Institutions involved with East African herpetology - Photo credits - Index
