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Iguanas : a guide to their biology and captive care / Fredric L. Frye and Wendy Townsend

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Author:
Frye, Fredric L  Search this
Townsend, Wendy  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 145 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1993
Contents:
General considerations -- Basic behavior of green iguanas -- Selecting an iguana -- Handling -- Restraint -- Housing -- Waste management -- Environmental temperature -- Humidity -- Cage litter materials -- Furnishing the cage -- Further considerations -- Feeding and nutrition -- Water requirements, dehydration, and gout -- Feeding and nutrition -- Loss of appetite/refusal to feed -- Forced feeding -- Hydroponic cultivation of grasses -- Bean, pea, lentil, and seed sprout culture -- High fiber diet for herbivorous reptiles -- Toxic plant poisoning -- Reproduction -- Disorders related to the alimentary system -- Nutritional disorders -- Metabolic bone disease -- Rickets -- Vitamin deficiencies and excesses -- Mineral deficiencies or imbalances -- Miscellaneous disorders -- Constipation and gastrointestinal blockages -- Vomiting -- Diarrhea -- Bloating (tympany) -- Disorders of blood sugar -- Coprophagy -- Miscellaneous infections and infectious diseases -- Parasites -- Endoparasites -- Ectoparasites -- Miscellaneous conditions -- Sexual aggression by iguanas toward their owners
(cont) Wendy's observations -- Epilogue -- International special interest iguana groups -- Directory of herpetological societies in the United States
Topic:
Iguanas as pets  Search this
Iguana (Genus)  Search this
Captive reptiles  Search this
Call number:
SF459.I38F78 1993X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_447831