Komodo Dragons: Biology and Conservation (Zoo and Aquarium Biology and Conservation Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588340732 ISBN 13: 9781588340733

Publisher: Smithsonian Books, 2002

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

James B. Murphy retired as curator of herpetology at the Dallas Zoo, where he worked for thirty years, and is currently a research associate at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Claudio Ciofi is a research associate at Yale University. Colomba de la Panouse is the zoological director at Parc Zoologique de Thoiry in France. Trooper Walsh recently retired from his position as a biologist in the Department of Herpetology at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.

Synopsis:

Participants in the November 1998 Thoiry Komodo Dragon Symposium, held in France, and contributors invited to flesh out the coverage, examine the largest living lizard, native only to a few small islands in eastern Indonesia. They are threatened at home by human activities, and have not thrived or reproduced well in zoos elsewhere, though they rema

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1588340732
• ISBN 13: 9781588340733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Murphy James, Ciofi Claudio