Mark O’Shea MBE is professor of herpetology at the University of Wolverhampton. O’Shea hosted four seasons of O’Shea’s Big Adventure for Animal Planet/Discovery Channel and the UK’s Channel 4. He has conducted fieldwork on numerous tropical expeditions since 1983 and is a fellow of the Explorers’ Club of New York, the Royal Geographical Society, the Linnean Society of London, and the Royal Society of Biology. O’Shea has authored ten books, including The Book of Snakes, also published by the University of Chicago Press. In 2020 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours “for services to higher education, zoology, reptile conservation and snakebite research.” He lives in Shropshire, England, twenty miles from the birthplace of Charles Darwin. Tim Halliday (1945–2019) was one of the world’s foremost authorities on amphibians. He was formerly professor of biology at the Open University and was International Director of the IUCN Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force for thirteen years.

"A perfect resource for someone like me who wants an up-to-date, detailed, and engaging introduction to the natural history, taxonomy, and diversity of frogs. This, to me, provides a very accessible introduction that discusses the classification of frogs, their ecology, life history, reproduction, and current impacts on amphibian diversity (diseases and human-mediated effects). It also has expanded and updated new families from Africa and the Amazon and updated taxonomy. . . . As a professor who works with undergraduate researchers, many of whom have never held an amphibian before stumbling into my lab, this book will be our lab’s constant companion, sitting on my office table for students to explore the fascinating world of frogs."

• IntroductionWhat is a frog?Complex life cycleAn acoustic worldFrogs, toads & peoplePopulation declinesAmphibian diseasesDistribution & classificationWhy the number of frog species is increasingThe frogsAppendicesGlossaryResourcesA note on nomenclatureIndex of common namesIndex of scientific namesIndex of family namesAcknowledgments

Mark O’Shea MBE is professor of herpetology at the University of Wolverhampton. O’Shea hosted four seasons of O’Shea’s Big Adventure for Animal Planet/Discovery Channel and the UK’s Channel 4. He has conducted fieldwork on numerous tropical expeditions since 1983 and is a fellow of the Explorers’ Club of New York, the Royal Geographical Society, the Linnean Society of London, and the Royal Society of Biology. O’Shea has authored ten books, including The Book of Snakes, also published by the University of Chicago Press. In 2020 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours “for services to higher education, zoology, reptile conservation and snakebite research.” He lives in Shropshire, England, twenty miles from the birthplace of Charles Darwin. Tim Halliday (1945–2019) was one of the world’s foremost authorities on amphibians. He was formerly professor of biology at the Open University and was International Director of the IUCN Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force for thirteen years.

"A perfect resource for someone like me who wants an up-to-date, detailed, and engaging introduction to the natural history, taxonomy, and diversity of frogs. This, to me, provides a very accessible introduction that discusses the classification of frogs, their ecology, life history, reproduction, and current impacts on amphibian diversity (diseases and human-mediated effects). It also has expanded and updated new families from Africa and the Amazon and updated taxonomy. . . . As a professor who works with undergraduate researchers, many of whom have never held an amphibian before stumbling into my lab, this book will be our lab’s constant companion, sitting on my office table for students to explore the fascinating world of frogs."

• IntroductionWhat is a frog?Complex life cycleAn acoustic worldFrogs, toads & peoplePopulation declinesAmphibian diseasesDistribution & classificationWhy the number of frog species is increasingThe frogsAppendicesGlossaryResourcesA note on nomenclatureIndex of common namesIndex of scientific namesIndex of family namesAcknowledgments