Desert Lizards

by Gray, Randall L.; McCarron, Dan; Tytle, Tim

• ISBN13: 9781575241609
• ISBN10: 1575241609
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Krieger Pub Co

Author Biography

Randall Gray is a wildlife biologist and has undergraduate and MA degrees in biology from California State University, Sacramento, and has completed additional graduate work in wildlife ecology and environmental policy at the University of Arizona. He has been keeping lizards for 40 years, and during the last 6 years has focused his attention on the captive propagation of spinytailed lizards and chuckawallas. Dan McCarron holds two undergraduate degrees in natural resource conservation and biology and an MS in biology. Since 1983, he has focused his herpetocultural interests on the keeping and propagation of several desert lizard species Tim Tytle is a medical doctor and professor at the University of Oklahoma and also has an MS in zoology from California State University, Los Angeles. He maintains a large collection of geckos and is the author of many articles on husbandry and maintenance of geckos

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Deserts	1	(8)
Desert Ecosystems	1	(3)
Desert Lizards	4	(5)
Simulating Desert Environments in Captivity	9	(16)
Introduction	9	(1)
Indoor Cages	9	(3)
Substrates	12	(1)
Cage Landscaping	13	(1)
Temperature and Lighting	14	(4)
Water	18	(1)
Outdoor Cages	18	(4)
Social Behavior	22	(3)
Feeding Desert Lizards	25	(6)
Introduction	25	(1)
Insect Food	25	(1)
Increasing the Nutritive Value of Insect Food	26	(1)
Feeding Omnivorous Lizards	27	(1)
Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation	28	(3)
Captive Propagation	31	(10)
Sexing	31	(5)
Hibernation	36	(1)
Nesting Sites	37	(1)
Egg Incubation	38	(3)
Spiny-tailed Lizards	41	(24)
Introduction	41	(1)
Taxonomy and Natural History	42	(14)
Care in Captivity	56	(2)
Reproduction	58	(7)
Chuckawallas	65	(12)
Introduction	65	(1)
Taxonomy and Natural History	66	(7)
Care in Captivity	73	(1)
Reproduction	74	(3)
Desert Iguanas	77	(4)
Introduction	77	(1)
Taxonomy and Natural History	77	(1)
Care in Captivity	78	(2)
Reproduction	80	(1)
Horned Lizards	81	(10)
Introduction	81	(1)
Taxonomy and Natural History	82	(4)
Care in Captivity	86	(3)
Reproduction	89	(2)
Collared Lizards	91	(14)
Dan McCarron
Introduction	91	(1)
Taxonomy and Natural History	92	(3)
Care in Captivity	95	(5)
Reproduction	100	(5)
Geckos	105	(14)
Tim Tytle
Introduction	105	(1)
Taxonomy and Natural History	105	(4)
Care in Captivity	109	(7)
Reproduction	116	(3)
Literature Cited	119	(4)
Index	123	(6)
The Authors	129