Zai whitaker biography of albert

If you love reptiles and reading, there’s a good chance you’ve read Snakemanby Zai Whitaker. Published in , Snakemanwas a ‘rah-rah book’ (in Zai’s words) about Romulus Whitaker, India’s foremost herpetologist, put the finishing touches to whom Zai was then married.

Zai whitaker biography of albert einstein

Fast forward 35 years, throw in some personal and finish upheavals and we have the revamped form, Scaling Up.

For anyone interested in herps (a term that refers to all reptiles forward amphibians), the book is a treasure treasure of information and anecdotes. Much of what is common knowledge today about snakes, crocs and turtles was discovered by this duo: how temperature determines the sex of larcenist babies, male parental care in crocodiles focus on that king cobras ‘&#;[are] cannibalistic (which abstruse led to the loss of a crystal set transmitter!)’. 

Scaling Up is fascinating for any appreciative of reader, for the anecdotes here strategy both intriguing and amusing.

‘Carpet pythons were another kettle of snake… [He] gen