North American Box Turtles: A Natural History (Volume 6)

Animal Natural History Series #6

by C. Kenneth Dodd Jr.

Once a familiar backyard visitor in many parts of the United States and Mexico, the box turtle is losing the battle against extinction. In North American Box Turtles , C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr., has written the first book-length natural history of the twelve species and subspecies of this endangered animal. This volume includes comprehensive information on the species’ evolution, behavior, courtship and reproduction, habitat use, diet, population structure, systematics, and disease. Special features include color photos of all species, subspecies, and their habitats; a simple identification guide to both living and fossil species; and a summary of information on fossil Terrapene and Native uses of box turtles. End-of-chapter sections highlight future research directions, including the need for long-term monitoring and observation of box turtles within their natural habitat and conservation applications. A glossary and a bibliography of literature on box turtles accompany the text. All royalties from the sales of this volume will go to the Chelonian Research Foundation, a nonprofit foundation for the conservation of turtles.

Genres: Science, Biology

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

Reviews

[Larry Duncan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tech reading part of LLELA Box Turtle Project. A part of my work as a Texas Master Naturalist. Plus hundreds of Pages of papers submitted to scientific journals for peer review. This project as taken up most of my year.

[Patty · Rating 2 out of 5]

This goes on my shelf "not what I expected". Now I understand how kids feel when they don't have the vocabulary to understand what they're reading.