Mark O'Shea, Tim Halliday

Gebundenes Buch

The Book of Frogs

A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World, Second Edition

Beschreibung

An up-to-date, beautifully illustrated, and beloved guide to six hundred of the world's most fascinating frogs. With almost nine thousand known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and behaviors. A single gram of the toxin produced by the skin of the Golden Poison Frog can kill one hundred thousand people. Male Darwin's Frogs carry their tadpoles in their vocal sacs for sixty days before coughing them out into the world. And the Wood Frogs of North America freeze every winter, reanimating in the spring. The Book of Frogs documents the diversity and magnificence of all these anurans and many more. Readers meet six hundred of nature's most fascinating frogs, with each entry including a distribution map, illustrations, species identification, natural history, and conservation status. Color photos show the frogs at their actual size--from Papua New Guinea's diminutive Paedophryne amauensis, smaller than a coin, to Cameroon's colossal Goliath Frog, heavier than some dogs. Written by experts Mark O'Shea and Tim Halliday and containing updated information on one hundred species and nearly twenty new entries, this revised edition will enthrall both veteran researchers and amateur herpetologists. As frogs increasingly make headlines for their troubling worldwide decline, The Book of Frogs brings readers face to face with six hundred astonishingly unique and irreplaceable species that display a diverse array of adaptations to habitats that are ever changing.

Autor

Mark O'Shea MBE is a herpetologist, zoologist, author, lecturer, and television presenter. He is professor of herpetology at the University of Wolverhampton and he previously spent thirty-three years as curator of reptiles at West Midland Safari Park. He has made ten expeditions to Papua New Guinea since 1986 and between 2009 and 2014 was coleader of a team based out of Victor Valley College, California, conducting the first herpetofaunal survey of Timor-Leste. O'Shea has hosted television documentaries focused on reptiles for the Discovery Channel, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, including four seasons as host of the Animal Planet/Discovery Channel show O'Shea's Big Adventure. He has participated as herpetologist on numerous tropical expeditions for the Royal Geographical Society, Oxford University, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Melbourne, University of Adelaide, Operation Raleigh, Raleigh Executive, and Discovery Expeditions. He is a fellow of the Explorers' Club of New York, Royal Geographical Society, Linnean Society of London, and Royal Society of Biology. O'Shea is the author of ten books, including A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea, which he is currently completely revising. In 2018 he was honored when an Asian pipesnake was named Cylindrophis osheai. He has coauthored twelve new snake species descriptions, two of which are included in the second edition of The Book of Snakes. In 2020 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours "for services to higher education, zoology, reptile conservation and snakebite research". He lives in Shropshire, England, twenty miles from the birthplace of Charles Darwin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780226844268
• ISBN-10: 0226844269
• Artikelnr.: 73540935