Lizard Care Books
Which lizard might be right for you? Find out with this overview by the Bartletts, two of herpetology's most respected figures. This is a great book for beginner-intermediate lizard keepers; illustrations and diagrams on how to actually set up the terrarium for the lizards.
This is a real find. Even if they have zero interest in reptiles, anyone who has curiousity and a sense of humor would enjoy this little book. The writing style is a combination of Dennis Miller's sarcasm, Bill Nye the Science Guy's mix of facts and fun, Monty Python's surrealism, and a pinch of David Sedaris's self-deprecation. A great airplane or lazy day read. Makes a great stocking stuffer gift for the readers on my list. Most amazing is this book's artful blend of solid information, interestingly presented and wacky fun. Great colorful graphics, too, including paintings by Hieronymous Bosch, Ed Mell, Maynard Dixon and others. Godzilla makes a couple appearances, as well. Lizard Social Behavior by Stanley F. Fox
This is an original, substantial, and long-needed contribution. The introduction places the subject in context and shows how lizards can provide unique information not readily available through study of other organisms. The book is logically organized, beginning with a focus on individual variation, moving to comparisons between populations, and finishing with species comparisons. Readers with a general interest in social behavior will be drawn to peruse other sections where they will find an abundance of additional interesting and informative material.
This book is a guide for owners of reptiles and amphibians who feed insects and other live foods to their pets. Advice is offered for selecting , ordering and raising your own supply of live invertebrate foods. More than a dozen species of live foods are discussed. The book includes instructions on keeping cultures of insects, and recipes & diets for insects.
The proper feeding of lizards is important to their survival in captivity. Diet is one aspect of lizard keeping that many new lizard owners know little about, and their pets suffer as a result. This book provides lizard owners with plenty of information on the diets of insect-eating lizards, including the right feeding techniques for making sure that their pets get the right nutrients.
If you are thinking of adding plants to your reptile or amphibians terrarium this book might be of interest to you!
Reptile and amphibian owners add a new dimension to their hobby when they design and build terraria that simulate the natural habitats of their companion animals. This book gives directions for a variety of terrarium options. You can build enclosures in spare rooms, glass tanks, greenhouses, outdoor pools, or virtually any other available space. With this book's help, you can also transform your terrarium into a scaled-down replica of desert, rain forest, semiaquatic, or woodland environment.
Here are detailed instructions for constructing both indoor and outdoor terrariums in different sizes to fit different needs. Books in the Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series present basic information for new or soon-to-be owners. Advice and instruction covers feeding, housing, health care, training, grooming, and much more. Texts emphasize pet care basics and are easy for all readers to understand. All books in this series are filled with high quality full-color photos and instructive line drawings. Reptile & Amphibian Parasites by Eric M. Rundquist
Loaded with good information and practical, sensible, easy-to-apply advice. Great for beginners, but even the pros can learn a lot from them.
An important manual for the reptile breeder. This manual takes the reptile owner beyond the simple task of care into the subject of why to prevent and how to treat parasites in our reptiles. The manual explains in simple terms the complexities of reptile parasites. It goes into the how-to of fecal floats, parasite identification and treatments. It takes the mystery out of the vet's back room. One of the shortest yet most useful chapters is "Hygiene and the Herpetoculturist". An important read for all reptile keepers and breeders.
Lizards of the World offers the general reader a complete introduction to these vestiges of the dinosaur era, which have been the subject of speculation and superstition for centuries and which continue to fascinate us with their remarkable diversity of form, color and behavior. The volume examines all facets of its subject in a clear, non-technical text fully illustrated with 50 color as well as 50 black and white photos. Agamid Lizards by Ulrich Manthey, Ulrich Mantley, Norbert Schuster
These graceful arboreal lizards are available in many species and subspecies. Here are specifics on their care and breeding. Books in this series give hobbyists basic information on reptiles' anatomy, life cycles, and traits, as well as specific instructions on care and breeding. There is expert information on selecting good specimens, determining sex, providing proper caging, nutritious feeding, and health care. All books are heavily illustrated with full-color photos. Anoles (Exotic Lizards) by W. P. Mara
Discussion of the general care of many species of anole, basilisks and water dragons. Excellent information regarding enclosures, cage building, and insect care and breeding.
Basic but detailed information about the care, diet, and health of green water dragons, sailfin lizards and basilisks.
Naturalistic vivarium design is the growing trend in keeping amphibians and reptiles. Now you can create beautiful vivaria for a variety of desert reptiles including geckos, bearded dragons, cordylids, skinks, kingsnakes and various small boas and pythons. Simply follow the step-by-step method presented in this groundbreaking and highly acclaimed book. Make your vivarium a work of art! 64 pp. color.
Easy to follow captive care information and brilliant photography.
It is THE book on Bearded Dragons. Two of the world's greatest experts (De Vosjoli & Mailloux) came together to write the only credible, informative guide to the care and breeding of these interesting lizards. Packed with very helpful information and pictures. Covers every aspect of the care and husbandry of the Bearded Dragon.
Basic care, diet, and breeding information. Great photography as well!
Steve Grenard's book fills pretty much all the prior gaps in available information. The pictures are clear and interesting and his way of presenting the facts make this book an easy and enjoyable read for anyone who takes their Bearded Dragon seriously. This book is a very well-rounded presentation of the subject and together with Vosjoli/ Mailloux this book is a 'must have' for all BD owners or those thinking about acquiring one of these engaging animals.
These fascinating animals are difficult to keep in captivity and require specialized care. This book offers expert advice for hobbyists. Books in this series give hobbyists basic information on reptiles' anatomy, life cycles, and traits, as well as specific instructions on care and breeding. There is expert information on selecting good specimens, determining sex, providing proper caging, nutritious feeding, and health care. All books are heavily illustrated with full-color photos.
If you are a new chameleon hobbiest owner or are about to take that plunge into chameleon ownership, this is the ONLY book you will need. It covers feeding, caging, care specific to many different and exotic species, and basic medical information as well. The book is well written and covers topics thoroughly. The pictures are superb and the author's personal experience keeping chameleons and other herps is very reassuring and lends to her credibility.
What do chameleons eat? How long do they live? Do they really change color? How can you construct a good terrarium for them? These are just a few of the many questions answered in this heavily illustrated handbook. Titles in Barron's popular Pet Handbooks series instruct pet owners on health care, proper feeding and housing, and other facts important to owners and their pets. All books in this series have high quality, full-color photos, line drawings, and run to an average of approximately 140 pages.
Captive husbandry, including diet and habitat are described in detail within this book. Chameleons: Nature's Hidden Jewels by Petr Necas
Introduces chameleons in all their beauty and curiousness, and outlines the present state of knowledge of chameleons. Compiles published information and summarizes unpublished data from breeders, biologists, and veterinarians. Early chapters give general information on origin and distribution, biology, reproduction, and care of chameleons in terrariums. Species accounts offer recent captive husbandry information and tell how a particular genus is related to others. Includes a wealth of color photos of rare species and subspecies.
Basic information on a variety of different species.
Accompanied by more than 100 full-colour photos and drawings, Le Berre's discussion of the chameleon is divided into 14 sections, ranging from such topics as physiology and behaviour to the ideal terrarium, nutrition, and health and medical aspects.
Discusses the captive care and maintenance of geckos.
This book could be titled "The Who's Who of Day Geckos" You'll find many beautiful colour photos and superb husbandry information combined and written by one of the best. Housing, care, set-ups (including commercial), feeding, breeding, diseases and disorders, species accounts and more. 143 pp. Colour.
This book is a great visual and animal care guide for Leopard and Fat Tailed Geckos. If you are thinking of getting one of these animals, I highly recommend this book. All aspects of basic care are covered and the pictures are superb.
The perfect book for anyone interested in Leopard Geckos! Informative, easy to understand, photos ...
Due to the recent popularity of Leopard Geckos, The Leopard Gecko Manual is a must have for all readers who either have or are considering purchasing a leopard gecko. The Leopard Geckos has become popular simply because they are one of the hardiest of all lizard species, easy to keep, easy to breed and potentially long-lived. They are also convenient in size, neither too small to be appreciated and handled, nor so large that it presents risks or requires enclosures not readily integrated into ... The Gecko : An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet) by Audrey Pavia
The lizard craze is undeniable, and the small, friendly gecko is a big hit among pet owners. If you are interested in, or have a gecko, this book will give you all the information you need to keep this fascinating reptile in captivity. From light and heat requirements to nutrition and health care, this book covers everything your gecko will need.
Information, full colour pictures and specific information on many species, it basically tells you everything you need to know to raise healthy and happy geckos.
By Melissa Kaplan!!!! 384 pages of in depth iguana care information. So, you wanna iguana. Or you already have one. Now what? This fun and friendly guide gives you expert advice on selecting an iguana and taking care of your fascinating pet throughout its life. It provides valuable tips on diet, habitat, health, and other important iguana issues.
The best book on green iguanas to come along in years. Information on diet, housing, and health, wonderful insights into iguana psychology and iguana-human interaction. The definitive work on management, care and personality traits of green iguanas in captivity. If you own a green iguana or if you are thinking of getting one, you should buy this book. Biology, Husbandry, and Medicine of the Green Iguana by Elliott R. Jacobson
Available MARCH 1st, 2003
Basic information about the care of the Green Iguana. Outdated nutritional information.
Up-to-date reptile information and ownership instruction. The Iguana covers everything from selecting an ectotherm and understanding its environmental needs to discussions on behaviour and a glossary of relevant terminology. Iguana Iguana : Guide for Successful Captive Care by Fredric L. Frye
A new and expanded edition, devoted exclusively to the green iguana, based on the author's previous publication, Iguanas: A Guide to their Biology and Captive Care. Includes b&w; illustrations and 24 pages of colour plates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
With the possible exception of the vampire bat, no North American animal has been the source of more superstitions, the subject of as many legends, or the object of more exaggerated claims than the Gila monster (HELODERMA SUSPECTUM). Not only is the Gila monster America's largest and only poisonous lizard, it is our slowest moving saurian, the only reptile having an armored hide, and the only lizard with a forked tongue like a snake's.
A solid, scholarly natural history of all venomous reptiles north of Mexico (20 snakes and the Gila monster). Covers external morphology, venomology, and conservation with an identification key, range maps, and photos (including 55 good color plates). Likely to remain the standard reference for the next 20 years.
Terrarium keepers can depend on this manual to tell them everything they need to know about the care and maintenance of Nile Monitor lizards. Books in the Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series present basic information about pets for new or soon-to-be owners. Advice and instruction covers feeding, housing, health care, training, grooming, protection against hazards, and more. Texts emphasize pet care basics and are easy for all readers to understand, but most titles also present facts that even experienced pet owners and breeders will find new and useful. All books in this series are filled with high quality full-color photos and instructive line art. Length averages between 64 and 104 pages.
Retired Australian researchers in agriculture protection (King) and wildlife ecology (Green) offer a non-technical account of the fascinating lizards from down under that include the famous Komodo dragon. Updating their 1993 , published by the University of New South Wales Press in its Australian Natural History Series, they reveal new findings such as that one of the lizards can count and that another swims in the ocean when not searching for food. The also add a chapter on parasites of the varanids and a section on foraging strategy. Line drawings and 21 color plates illustrate the treatment.
Beautifully illustrated, highly respected text. This book has a great deal on biology and life in the wild. The primary focus is monitor lizards, but it does a complete over view of all giant lizards (3 feet or larger).
Details include the first successful U. S. breeding of the Komodo dragon, eye-opening insights on the hardships of travel to the few islands housing the Komodo dragon.
More than twenty years have passed since Walter Auffenberg's monumental The behavioral ecology of the Komodo Monitor. In the intervening years the populations of Komodo dragons--native only to a handful of islands in southeast Indonesia--have dwindled, sparking intensive conservation efforts. During the last two decades new information about these formidable predators has emerged, and the most important findings are clearly presented here.
Some good color photos. The book is reasonably informative, but like most amateur books and magazine articles, glosses over some of the important issues like problems encountered keeping Uromastyx and doesn't make much use of what is already published about these lizards in the literature. Additionally, there are some incorrectly labeled photos.
In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behaviour, and life histories. Lizards, which are valued for their amenability to field experiments, have been the subject of reciprocal transplant experiments and of manipulations of resource availability, habitat structure, population density, and entire sections of food webs.
Pianka (zoology, U. of Texas, Austin) recounts more than 30 years of adventures in reptile studies in remote desert wilderness areas of North America, Africa, and Australia. Full of lizard and natural history lore on the bush fire succession cycle, habits and culture of the Australian Aborigines, and the interaction of humans with the landscape. Includes colour and b&w photos. |
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Lizard
Care from A to Z by Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia P. Bartlett (Contributor)
Loco for
Lizards by Jim Cherry, James Cherry
Eat This
Bug : A Guide to Invertebrate Live Foods for Reptiles and Amphibians by Lynn
Davis 
Feeding Insect
Eating Lizards by Zoffer, David Zoffer
The Guide to Plants for
the Reptile Terrarium by Jerry G. Walls, Maleta M. Walls 
Terrarium and Cage Construction and Care by Richard D.
Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Fredric L. Frye 
The Terrarium:
With Full-Color Photographs (Complete Pet Owner's Manual) by Harald Jes, Johann
Brandstetter 
Understanding Reptile Parasites : A Basic Manual for Herpetoculturists &
Veterinarians by Roger Klingenberg 
Lizards of the World by Chris Mattison
Anoles by Richard D.
Bartlett, Patricia Pope Bartlett
Anoles, Basilisks and
Water Dragons : A Complete Pet Care Manual (More Complete Pet Owner's Manuals)
by Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia P. Bartlett (Contributor) 
Green Water Dragons,
Sailfin Lizards and Basilisks (General Care and Maintenance of Series) by
Philippe De Vosjoli
Design and
Maintenance of Desert Vivaria by Philippe De Vosjoli, Kevin Anderson
(Illustrator)
Bearded and
Frilled Dragons by David Zoffer, Tom Mazarlik, Tom Mazorlik
Bearded
Dragons: Facts & Advice on Care and Breeding by Richard D. Bartlett,
Patricia Pope Bartlett
General
Care and Maintenance of Bearded Dragons (The Herpetocultural Library Series) by
Philippe De Vosjoli, Robert Mailloux (Contributor), Philippe De Vosjoli
Bearded
Dragon by Tom Mazorlig
The Bearded
Dragon : An Owners Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (An Owner's Guide to a Happy
Healthy Pet) by Steve Grenard, Bill Love
Blue-Tongued
Skinks by Jerry G. Walls
Jackson's
Chameleons by Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia Pope Bartlett
Chameleons: Their Care
and Breeding by Linda J. Davison
The Chameleon Handbook by Jacques Leberre, Francois Le
Berre
Essential Care of
Chameleons by Philippe De Vosjoli
Chameleons
: Everything About Selection, Care, Nutrition, Diseases, Breeding, and
Behaviour (Barron's Pet Owner's Manuals) by Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia P.
Bartlett (Contributor), Tom Kerr (Illustrator) 
The New Chameleons Handbook : Everything About Selection,
Care, Diet, Disease, Reproduction, and Behaviour (Barron's Pet Owner's Manuals)
by Francois Le Berre 
Geckos: Everything about
Selection, Care, Nutrition, Diseases, Breeding, and Behavior by Richard D.
Bartlett, Patricia Pope Bartlett
Day Geckos by
Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia Pope Bartlett
The General
Care and Maintenance of Day Geckos (General Care Maintenance of Series) by Sean
McKeown, Philippe de Vosjoli (Editor) 
Leopard and
Fat-Tailed Geckos by Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia Pope Bartlett
Leopard
Geckos by Hunziker, Ray Hunziker 
The Leopard Gecko Manual (Herpetocultural
Library) by Philippe De Vosjoli, Brian Viets, Ron Tremper, Roger. Klingenberg
DMV
General
Care and Maintenance of Tokay Geckos and Related Species (The Herpetocultural
Library) by Sean McKeown, Jim Zaworski (Contributor) 
Iguanas for Dummies 
Green Iguana; The
Ultimate Owner's Manual by James W., III Hatfield 
The Green Iguana Manual by Philippe De Vosjoli 
The Iguana : An Owner's Guide to a Happy
Healthy Pet by Karen Rosenthal 
Gila
Monster: Facts and Folklore of America's Aztec Lizard 
Venomous Reptiles of
North America by Carl H. Ernst
Nile
Monitors: Everything about History, Care, Nutrition, Handling, and Behavior by
Robert M. Faust, Rob Faust
Monitors:
The Biology of Varanid Lizards by Dennis King, Brian Green, Frank Knight, Keith
Newgrain, Jo Eberhard
The General Care and Maintenance of Popular Monitors and Tegus (The
Herpetocultural Library Series) by Michael Balsai 
Gray's
Monitor Lizard by Walter Auffenberg
Living Dragons : A Natural History of the World's Monitor Lizards by
Rodney Steel 
Giant
Lizards by Robert George Sprackland 
Komodo,
the Living Dragon : The Living Dragon by Richard L. Lutz, Dick Lutz, Judy Marie
Lutz 
Komodo Dragons: Biology
and Conservation by James B. Murphy
Swifts and Spiny Lizards
by Ray Hunziker
Uromastyx and
Butterfly Agamids by Jerry G. Walls
Lizard
Ecology : Historical and Experimental Perspectives 
The Lizard
Man Speaks