"Frogs, Toads, and Treefrogs: Everything about Selection, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Behavior" by Richard D.& Patricia P. Bartlett
Barron's Educational Series. A Complete Pet Owner’s Manual
Bаrrоn's | 1996 | ISBN: 0764136720 0812091566 9780812091564 9780764136726 | pages | PDF | 18 MB
This manual includes detailed instructions for maintaining a proper terrarium, taking preventative measures against parasites and disease, ensuring a healthful diet for your amphibians, profiles of popular species, and more. The book is filled with handsome color photos and instructive line illustrations
Heavily illustrated with color photos and instructive line art, the book presents information on housing, feeding, health care, the title animal's traits--and where applicable, on grooming, training, and breeding. The titles cover virtually all animals that are kept as pets, and include a wide selection of dog and cat breeds, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, small mammals, and even some insects and arachnids.
Contents Preface
Acknowledgments
Understanding Anurana
Call Uniqueness
Male Competition
Anuran Oddities
Amphibian Names
A (Tentative) Family Tree
What Is Happening to the Frogs?
Frog Watching and Photographing
HOW-TO: Photographing Frogs, Toads, and Treefrogs
Caging Techniques
Understanding Microenvironments
Indoor Caging
Outdoor Caging
Cage Furnishings
Terrarium Clfianliness
Lighting and Heating
HOW-TO: Watering Techniques
Diets
Mice
Health Hints and Medications
Proper Hygiene
Ailments
Breeding Suggestions
Reproductive Behavior
Development ol the Eogs
The Tadpoles
Cycling Your Frog. Toad, or Treetrog
lor Breeding
The Flat-tongued Frogs: Family Dlscoglossidae
The Fire-bellied Toads
Aquarium Favorites: FamHy Plpldae
The Tongueless Frogs
Burrowers: Family Pelobatidae
The Spadefoots
The Malayan Homed Frog
The Wonderful Hopping Mouths: Family Leptodactylidae
The Horned Frogs
Budgett’s Frog
The Chacoan Burrowing Frog
Care of Captive Ceratophrines
Backyard Favorites and Exotic Rarities: Family Bufonidae
The “Arboreaf Toads
The Ground-dwelling Toads
Neotropical Forestland Gems: Family Dendrobatidae
The Arrow-poison Frogs
Arboreal Favorites: Family Hylidae
Red-eyed Treefrogs
White's Treefrog
The White-lipped Treefrog
Other Treefrogs
Typical Frogs: Family Ranidae
The American Bullfrog
Pyxies
Other Typical Ranids
Madagascar's Magnificent Mantellas
Tomato Frogs and Others: Family
Microhvlidae
The Tomato Frogs
The Malayan Painted Frog
The Narrow-mouthed Toads and
Sheep Frogs 98
Useful Addresses and Literature
Glossary
Index
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