Bearded Dragon: Your Happy Healthy Pet (Your Happy Healthy Pet, 97) - Hardcover

Grenard, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470165111 ISBN 13: 9780470165119

Publisher: Wiley, 2007

Synopsis

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

Bearded dragons are increasingly popular; they may soon overtake the green iguana as the most popular reptile in the U.S. With their unique appearance, docile nature, and minimal care requirements, beardies make a great introduction to reptile keeping. With colorful photos, charts, and tables, this guide covers the basics, including:

• The beardie's background and the various breeds of bearded dragons
• Choosing your bearded dragon
• Setting up and maintaining your beardie's home, complete with a basking area and lighting
• Feeding and caring for your bearded dragon

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Grenard is an avid herpetologist with more than forty years of experience with amphibians and reptiles; he published a paper on the reproduction of the Marsupial Frog in 1958. In the summer of 2000, he published a controversial and widely debated review in Natural History Magazine on the possibility of American rattlesnake venoms evolving new properties. He is the author of several Howell Book House titles, including: Your Happy Healthy Pet: Frogs and Toads, An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet: Lizard and Amphibians: Their Care and Keeping. He is also the author of a number of scholarly medical and herpetological books, including Medical Herpetology and Handbook of Alligators and Crocodiles, and is the author of Introduction to Respiratory Care, a best-selling text review of respiratory therapy. Steve is a board-certified respiratory therapist and polysomnographer and is the clinical coordinator of the Institute of Sleep Medicine at Staten Island University Hospital in Staten Island, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470165111
• ISBN 13: 9780470165119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128