This book, first published in 1993 and here reprinted with a new
foreword by the authors, is still the most comprehensive survey of
snake biology available in a single volume. Authoritative and
comprehensive in scope, this important book offers herpetologists,
biologists and others interested in the study of snakes a broad
survey of snake ecology and behavior, as well as extensive coverage
of the literature in bibliographic form. Featuring contributions by
leading experts, this definitive reference identifies current areas
of research in snake biology. It reports on exciting developments
in population genetics, neurobiology, functional morphology,
behavioral ecology, evolution, thermoregulation, foraging ecology,
sexual dimorphism and conservation strategies. "I strongly
recommend this book to anyone conducting or planning to conduct
research on snakes. It is certainly a must for any graduate student
designing a laboratory or field study on snakes." The Quarterly
Review of Biology "Anyone planning to study snake biology will
benefit from this book." Southwestern Herpetologists Society Dr.
Richard A. Seigel became interested in herpetology while an
undergraduate at Rutgers University, where he received his B.A. in
Zoology and Physiology in 1977. He continued his work with
amphibians and reptiles while getting his M.S. in Biological
Sciences from the University of Central Florida in 1979 and his
Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1984. He is currently Full
Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at
Towson University in Maryland. Dr. Siegel's primary research
interests are in the population ecology and conservation biology of
amphibians and reptiles. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed
papers and has co-authored or edited four texts on the ecology and
biology of snakes. From 1993-2000, he was the Editor-in-Chief of
Journal of Herpetology, the largest international publication in
its field. Joseph T. Collins has written more than 200 articles on
reptiles, amphibians, and fishes throughout North America and
twenty-three books, including: Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and
Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America Third Edition (with
Roger Conant), Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas Third Edition(with
photographs by Suzanne L. Collins), Natural Kansas, An Illustrated
Guide to Endangered or Threatened Species in Kansas, (with Suzanne
L. Collins, Jerry Horak, Dan Mulhern, William H. Busby, Craig C.
Freeman, and Gary Wallace), A Key to Amphibians and Reptiles of the
Continental United States and Canada(with Robert Powell and Errol
D. Hooper, Jr.). In 1978, Collins served as president of the
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (which he
co-founded in 1967), the leading international professional society
in that field, as president of the Kansas Association of Biology
Teachers (1980-1981) and as president of the Kansas Herpetological
Society. He was a distinguished delegate to the First World
Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury, England in 1989, and was
made a Distinguished Life Member of the Kansas Herpetological
Society in 1998. Joseph T. Collins is Adjunct Herpetologist for the
Kansas Biological Survey, Herpetologist Emeritus for the Natural
History Museum at The University of Kansas, Adjunct Curator of
Herpetology for the Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort
Hays State University, and Director of The Center for North
American Herpetology (a non-profit foundation).
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