A practical guide to exotic pets
Title:
A practical guide to exotic pets
Author:
ISBN:
9781561383702
Publication Information:
Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Press, 1994.
Physical Description:
124 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
General Note:
"How to keep and enjoy a wide range of unusual pets"--cover.
Contents:
Contents: Keeping exotic pets -- Handling exotic pets -- Keeping invertebrates. Housing invertebrates -- Equipping the invertebrate cage -- Feeding invertebrates -- Stick insects -- Praying mantids -- Cockroaches -- Crickets and locusts -- Silkmoths -- Hawkmoths -- Butterflies -- Spiders -- Scorpions -- Millipedes and centipedes -- Hermit crabs and giant snails -- Keeping amphibians. Housing amphibians -- Feeding amphibians -- Aquatic newts and salamanders -- Terrestrial salamanders -- Toads -- Fire-bellied toads -- Tree frogs -- Bullfrogs -- Poison dart frogs and mantellas -- Aquarium frogs -- Keeping reptiles. Housing reptiles -- Feeding reptiles -- Ground geckos -- Climbing geckos -- Day geckos -- Iguanas -- Dragon lizards -- Chameleons -- Skinks -- Monitors and tegus.
Contents (cont.): Large boas and pythons -- Small boas and pythons -- Ratsnakes -- Kingsnakes -- Milksnakes -- Other North American snakes -- Garter snakes and water snakes -- Turtles -- Tortoises.
Summary:
This guide brings you face-to-face with more than 50 of the most commonly kept unusual animals, and explains how to care for them as household pets.
Added Title:
Exotic pets.
