Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156157 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

A useful but limited reference for beginners.
If you have just developed an interest in scorpions then this book may wet your appetite. It provides very basic guidance on keeping scorpions as "pets", i.e. environment, housing, feeding, etc. and some basic observations and anatomical information. Colour photographs are quite good. It identifies the more common varieties usually kept in captivity and includes some useful information on them. However, if you are looking for a particular species then this book may disappoint. A table of selected varieties of scorpion describing their attributes, including their relative risks, is fairly useful as a guide, ignoring the obvious (and potentially dangerously misleading) mistakes in the preceding paragraphs. This book is heavily slanted towards the American market and European readers may consequently be disappointed with it in general... A good starter reference but probably of little use to the experienced enthusiast.