Their Blood Runs Cold: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians Book

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1
Chapter 1: Reptiles and Amphibians: The Field of Herpetology	5
Chapter 2: The Snakes: Once Upon a Bushmaster	19
Chapter 3: The Turtles: Turtles May Be Slow but They're 200
Million Years Ahead of Us	38
Chapter 4: The Crocodilians: How to Catch an Alligator in
One Uneasy Lesson	55
Chapter 5: The Lizards: When Blowguns and Nooses Have
Unusual Uses	73
Chapter 6: The Salamanders: Ohio State 7, Alabama 3,
Salamanders 0	84
Chapter 7: The Frogs and Toads: Who's Watching the Frogs?	96
Chapter 8: Techniques in Herpetology: To Catch a Cooter	105
Chapter 9: More Techniques: To Find a Mud Turtle	119
Chapter 10: The Future of Reptiles and Amphibians: Can We
Find a Hiding Place, Too?	134
Chapter 11: Teaching the Public: How to Hold an Audience with
a Snake	143
Selected References in Herpetology	147
Index	158