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

$37.50 + $3.50 s/h
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