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KEEPING AND BREEDING
FRESHWATER TURTLES
by RUSS GURLEY,
Director of the TURTLE and TORTOISE PRESERVATION GROUP
After two, long attentive
years, Russ Gurley, Director of the Turtle and Tortoise Preservation
Group, is proud to announce the publication of Keeping and Breeding
Freshwater Turtles. This large format work features over 200 pages
of creative turtle keeping and tips on keeping and breeding the
world's freshwater turtles. Prominently featured in this work
are Indoor and Outdoor Enclosure design, Quarantine and Health,
Feeding, Breeding, Incubation, Care of Hatchlings, and much more.
Exciting Individual Species Accounts round out this valuable new
book. This final section of Keeping and Breeding Freshwater Turtles
features color photos, care and breeding tips, and the most current
information relating to almost every species of freshwater turtle
in the world.
"Through the work
of private individuals and international organizations such as
TRAFFIC, Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, and
many others, concerned turtle keepers have gotten the gruesome
news . . . The world's turtles are disappearing at an alarming
rate."
Russ Gurley
Keeping and Breeding Freshwater Turtles
INTRODUCTION
"The Loch Ness
Monster does exist. It is very much alive and living in Lake Hoan
Kiem in Hanoi."
Peter Pritchard, Ph.D.
October 6, 2002
* From Soft-shelled Turtles in the Individual Species Accounts
of Keeping and Breeding Freshwater Turtles
"Some academics,
big-heads, and other self-proclaimed turtle experts have reported
in recent literature that captive breeding by private hobbyists
is not the answer to saving the world's turtles. They are of course
wrong."
Russ Gurley
Keeping and Breeding Freshwater Turtles
Chapter TEN: Breeding
The keeping of freshwater
turtles continues to be one of the fastest growing and most energized
branches of herpetoculture, the keeping and breeding of reptiles
and amphibians. In Keeping and Breeding Freshwater Turtles, Russ
Gurley of the Turtle and Tortoise Preservation Group is excited
to present information and ideas that can help keepers to enhance
their work, to help them provide more interesting and appropriate
environments for their turtles, and to get a glimpse into the
lives of some of the most fascinating species of turtles on Earth.
This book, being called
the new "turtle encyclopedia" by many, is destined to
be a classic for the turtle community.
ISBN 0-9638130-3-X
301 pages 309+ full-color
photos
$45.00 + $3.50 s/h
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