Presents a guide to owning and caring for a turtle as a pet, featuring profiles of different types of turtles, providing information about pet selection, supplies, feeding, and health, and including discussion of turtle history, anatomy, life cycle, and behavior.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
A turtle world -- Pet profiles -- Turtles through time -- Life cycle -- Picking your pet -- Tanks for turtles -- Turtle treats -- Shells and such -- Turtle polish -- Healthy and happy -- Turtle behavior -- Troubles and triumphs -- Pet puzzlers.