Snakes and Other Reptiles of Borneo

Description

- Compact, easy-to-use format: the ideal pocket-sized travelling companion. - Covers over 180 species of snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles of Borneo. - Authoritative text by an experienced field herpetologist describes key features for identification, plus natural history notes for each species. - One or more stunning colour photographs for each species, showing diagnostic features. - Includes chapters on searching for reptiles and surviving snake bites.

Indraneil Das studied at the Universities of Calcutta and Oxford, receiving a doctoral degree in zoology from the latter institution in 1991. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University, and a Research Fellow at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. At present, he is Associate Professor at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and Editor of the herpetological journal, Hamadryad. Indraneil Das is author of a number of other titles including books on the turtles of India, of Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, a work on the biogeography of the reptiles of southern Asia, and one on ethnoherpetology.