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Chelonian Answers
CNAH ANNOUNCEMENT
The Center for North American Herpetology
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.cnah.org
3 December 2009
TURTLES: THE ANIMAL ANSWER GUIDE
by Whit Gibbons and Judy Greene
A turtle book that answers the big questions. Questions you never thought of asking, like:
Why do so many turtles have yellow stripes on their neck?
Controversial questions (well at least among turtle people):
How smart are turtles?
Questions with interesting answers:
Old specimens of the Indian Brown Roofed turtle can actually be called Old Blue Eyes.
Then, there is the Tortoise and Hare Algorithm.
The book's authors even try to explain: What is the difference between turtles, tortoises and terrapins?
*****
2009
Johns Hopkins University Press
176 pages, 35 color photos, 64 halftones
Paperback, 7 x 11 inches
$24.95 plus $6.50 S&H for anywhere in the U.S.
(Overseas email us first at asalzberg@HerpDigest.org for a price quote)
TO ORDER
1) Send a check to Herpdigest/Allen Salzberg/67-87 Booth Street -5B/Forest Hills, NY 11375. Make the check out to Herpdigest.
2) By Paypal - our account is asalzberg@herpdigest.org
3) By credit card, send us your credit card number, the expiration date, CVS number (last three digits of the number in back of the card. (Amex the number is in front) billing and the shipping address to asalzberg@herpdigest.org. (Though I haven't heard of this happening, a credit card number stolen from an email, I'm told to prevent this send ccard number and other information divided into two emails.)
4) By phone, call us at 1-718-275-2190 Eastern Standard Time (NYC) - 7 days as week, 10 A.M.- 8 P.M. If we are not in, leave a message and we'll call back.
Allen Salzberg
Publisher/Editor of HerpDigest
www.herpdigest.org
*****
CNAH Note 1: An excellent turtle book by Whit and Judy, with much information about Diamondback Terrapins, Common Musk Turtles, Common Map Turtles, and many other taxa. Get a copy for the child with chelonian interests in your clade.
CNAH Note 2: from page 7 of the book . . . "Most authorities accept that the ancestors of birds and crocodilians were more closely related to one another than to snakes and lizards, and that turtles had a separate origin from any of these major groups. Some biologists even take a position that turtles and crocodilians should no longer be classified as reptiles." Amen.
J. Whitfield Gibbons & Judy Greene. Johns Hopkins University Press. 176pp.
ISBN . $24.95.
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