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California Lizards and How to Find Them - (California Herping Guides) by Emily Taylor (Paperback)
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Highlights
- The author of California Snakes and How to Find Them invites budding reptile enthusiasts into a wonderland of lizards.
- About the Author: Emily Taylor is a professor of biological sciences at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where she conducts research on the physiology, ecology, and conservation biology of lizards and snakes.
- 208 Pages
- Nature, Animals
- Series Name: California Herping Guides
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About the Book
"An introductory guide to California lizards, featuring over 60 native and introduced species"--Book Synopsis
The author of California Snakes and How to Find Them invites budding reptile enthusiasts into a wonderland of lizards.
"This guide joyfully celebrates the beauty and quirkiness of our native lizards." --John Muir Laws
Lizards: they are cute, endearing, and mind-bogglingly diverse, and yet they are so easy to overlook among California's natural abundance. Start watching them, though, and a wonderland of lizard life appears. In California Lizards and How to Find Them, lizard lover Emily Taylor profiles over 60 native and introduced species, from California's iconic Western Fence Lizard to the adorable Desert Iguana to the chonky Ringed Wall Gecko. With her expert knowledge and joyous, laugh-out-loud writing, Taylor provides tips for finding, watching, and responsibly catching lizards. She offers absorbing insights on lizard evolution, and she explains the toll of invasive lizard species on California's ecosystems. Featuring more than 100 full-color photographs, and designed for easy use in everyday life, this is the ideal guide for budding reptile enthusiasts and longtime naturalists alike.
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Praise for California Lizards and How to Find Them:
"This guide joyfully celebrates the beauty and quirkiness of our native lizards. It makes you want to explore and watch these amazing creatures' wild behavior. It invites the naturalist to be both playful and rigorous. Learn where to go, how to explore, and delightful details to watch for." --John Muir Laws, author of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling
"Emily Taylor provides answers to any lizard questions you probably have ever had, doesn't use jargon so the content is easily understandable, and helps readers make informed decisions about whether to try and catch lizards or to leave them be. Even if you don't want to go looking for lizards, if you have a curiosity about the natural world this book belongs on your shelf." --Earyn McGee, herpetologist, science communicator, and creator of #FindThatLizard
Praise for California Snakes and How to Find Them by Emily Taylor (2024):
"I've loved snakes since childhood and am thrilled to now have this gorgeous book as my companion to finding snakes wherever a walk on the wild side takes me." --Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"For anyone who loves snakes, or who wants to love them, Emily Taylor's California Snakes and How to Find Them is packed with facts in reader- friendly prose by one of the world's leading snake biologists and conservationists. The utility and emotional impact of this book are further enhanced by some of the most evocative photographs of snakes I've ever seen, spanning technically perfect closeups of heads to stunning images of individuals in their species-typical habitats. California Snakes sets a new high bar for nature education, and I look forward to future volumes about other animal groups." --Harry W. Greene, author of Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature and Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art
"Emily Taylor's enthusiasm and love for snakes shine through every sentence of California Snakes and How to Find Them. Her engaging personal stories, authoritative information, and spectacular photographs will charm snake-lovers and future snake-lovers alike. See you in the field, armed with persistence, luck, and knowledge. Happy herping!" --Marty Crump, author of Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg: The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles
About the Author
Emily Taylor is a professor of biological sciences at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where she conducts research on the physiology, ecology, and conservation biology of lizards and snakes. Taylor is founder of the community science initiative Project RattleCam (rattlecam.org) and owner of Central Coast Snake Services (centralcoastsnakeservices.com). Her first book, California Snakes and How to Find Them, was published by Heyday in 2024. She lives in Atascadero with her husband, Steve, and their menagerie of rescue animals, including Pax the dog, Baby the boa constrictor, Aperol Spritz the bearded dragon, and rattlesnakes Buzz and Snakeholio. Follow her at @snakeymama.