Sköldpaddor

Turtles in color

by dr. Hobart M. Smith
1967

completely illustrated with color Photographs

Contents

INTRODUCTION. THE RED-EARED TURTLE

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Habitat... Identification Sun Bathing. Feeding in Captivity. Molting Care in Captivity Feeding in the Wild. . Illness.. Fungus Growth and Longevity tinguishing the Sexes Dis- Mating and Nesting OTHER KINDS OF TURTLES. Soft-shelled Turtles... Painted Turtles Terrapins ... Box Turtles... Snapping Turtles ... Map Turtles... Musk and Mud Turtles... Tortoises... Other Turtles

THE AUTHOR

Dr. Hobart M. Smith, an outstanding authority on herpetology, took his advance study at the University of Kansas, where he received his Ph.D. in 1936. He is now professor of comparative anatomy and herpetology at the University of Illinois. Author of more than 450 books and articles, Dr. Smith has served as an officer of the Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and of the Herpeto- logists' League.

Cover photo by Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod.

1967 by T.F.H. Publications, Inc.

Published by T.F.H. Publications, Inc., T.F.H. Building, 245 Cornelison Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 07302. Distributed in the British Empire by T.F.H. Publications (London) Ltd., 13 Nutley Lane, Reigate, Surrey, England. In Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Com- pany Ltd., Clarwin House, 791 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto 10, Ontario, Canada. Printed in the U.S.A. by the lithograph process by T.F.H. Lithograph Corp., Jersey City, N. J. 07302.

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