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Pianka and Vitt, authors of Lizard Ecology (Princeton UP, 1994), provide the definitive reference on lizards, covering species evolution, diversity, ecology, and biology. Part One explores lizard lifestyles, answering such questions as why lizards are active when they are, why they behave as they do, how they avoid predators, why they eat what they eat, and how they reproduce and socialize. In Part Two, the authors cover the world's lizard species, including iguanians, chameleons, lizards that can run across water and limbless lizards, such as snakes. Part Three gives an unprecedented global view of evolutionary trends that have shaped present-day lizard communities and considers the impact of humans on their future.
`This book is the first to provide a comprehensive introduction to the diversity of lizards....The authors discuss the latest research findings in readily accessible terms and provide sweeping new hypotheses about lizard diversity that will generate much discussion and research....This book should reach a wide audience and will undoubtedly stimulate the interest of future biologists. I wish I had had it when I was a teenager!' William E. Cooper, Indiana University-Purdue University