NEW BOOKS

THE BOOK
Fully revised and updated, Filmer’s Spiders: an Identification Guide to Southern Africa features all 69 families of spider that occur in this region. A fresh layout, full-colour photographs throughout – many of them new – and diagrams of diagnostic features make this a quick and easy guide for use in the field. The spiders are grouped into web-living, ground-living and plant-living species to aid identification.

Each family is described in terms of the spiders’ lifestyle, habitat, size, behaviour and venom potential, and the best collecting methods are given in each case. For those species whose venom is potentially harmful to man, the effects and recommended treatment of bites are discussed. This handy format book will appeal to anybody wishing to gain insight into the daily lives of spiders.

 

 

                              

Perfect for Conservancies

About to be released into bookstores : A Complete Guide to the Frogs of Southern Africa by Louis du Preez & Vincent Carruthers.

This new book is perfect for conservancies.  The book is sold with a CD containing the calls of most frogs of Southern Africa. Beautiful large photographs assist in identification as do the "Key ID Points".

 
Go to   http://www.awn.co.za/forthcoming.php   to order  a copy of this book

The book is a major work with more than a thousand illustrations, completely updated nomenclature and a new approach to frog identification.

Call sonograms and a CD containing most southern African frog calls are included.   It covers all aspects of both frog and tadpole biology and behaviour; each frog and toad species (and their tadpole stage) is fully described, along with conservation status, calls, habitat and habits.

The importance of frogs
Amphibian population declines have troubled scientists in recent decades and the need to study and understand frogs is more important today than ever. Aquatic and terrestrial, predator and prey, with porous skins and shell-less eggs, frogs are critically sensitive indicators of the state of our environmental health. Their world-wide decline in numbers and diversity of species should be of considerable concern to everyone.

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