How to Hold Animals
Published on 3. November 2020
128 pages
978-1-9821-5593-3 (ISBN)
Description
How to Hold Animals is the irresistible guide to holding more than forty critters according to advice from wildlife specialists.
Learn from the experts?a pet shop owner, a veterinarian, a wildlife photographer, and a reptile handler?how to pick up and hold dozens of species of animals, great and small, furry, scaly, and feathery, including snails, chipmunks, chickens, chinchillas, stag beetles, lizards, hamsters, owls, grasshoppers, mice, and more. Chock full of fascinating facts, interviews with experts, and full-color photos on every page, How to Hold Animals will delight and inform animal lovers of all stripes.
Learn from the experts?a pet shop owner, a veterinarian, a wildlife photographer, and a reptile handler?how to pick up and hold dozens of species of animals, great and small, furry, scaly, and feathery, including snails, chipmunks, chickens, chinchillas, stag beetles, lizards, hamsters, owls, grasshoppers, mice, and more. Chock full of fascinating facts, interviews with experts, and full-color photos on every page, How to Hold Animals will delight and inform animal lovers of all stripes.
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Toshimitsu Matsuhashi
How to Hold Animals
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11/2020
Scribner Book Company
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Introduction
- How to Use This Book
- Animal Photographer Toshimitsu Matsuhashi Holds Them Like This!
- Creatures Around You
- Grasshoppers and Crickets
- Praying Mantises
- Dragonflies
- Butterflies
- Crayfish
- Crabs
- Snails and Slugs
- Frogs and Toads
- Lizards
- Snakes
- A Word from the Expert: Before You Pick Up Any Creature You Come Across in the Great Outdoors.
- Peace of Mind in a Bag
- Pet Shop Owner Takahiro Goto Holds Them Like This!
- Insects, Arachnids, and Unusual Pets
- Scorpions
- Tarantulas
- Large Stag Beetles
- Cockroaches and Millipedes
- Long-tailed Chinchillas
- Chipmunks
- Sugar Gliders
- Hamsters
- Fancy Mice
- Chickens
- A Word from the Expert: How to Get a Rhinoceros Beetle Off Your Hand
- A Simple Way to get an Angry Stag Beetle Out of Its Plastic Box
- Veterinarian Kenichi Tamukai Holds Them Like This!
- Pet Mammals and Birds
- Dogs
- Cats
- Ferrets
- Rabbits
- Parakeets
- Sunda Scops Owls
- Prairie Dogs
- Hedgehogs
- A Word from the Expert: Trimming Claws
- My Specialty: Hold Spirit
- Reptile Shop Owner Kazuhisa Yamada Holds Them Like This!
- Reptiles
- Monitor Lizards
- Medium-sized Lizards
- Common Leopard Geckos
- Tokay Geckos
- Medium-sized Nonvenomous Snakes
- Slowworms
- Snake-necked Turtles
- Softshell Turtles
- A Word from the Expert: The Most Dangerous Field Trip
- Afterword
- About the Author
- Where the Experts Work: Shops, Animal Hospitals, Zoos
- An Index of Creatures Appearing in This Book
- Copyright
