How to Hold Animals

How to Hold Animals is the irresistible guide to holding more than forty critters according to advice from wildlife specialists.

Learn from the experts—a pet shop owner, a veterinarian, a wildlife photographer, and a reptile handler—how to pick up and hold dozens of species of animals, great and small, furry, scaly, and feathery, including snails, chipmunks, chickens, chinchillas, stag beetles, lizards, hamsters, owls, grasshoppers, mice, and more. Chock full of fascinating facts, interviews with experts, and full-color photos on every page, How to Hold Animals will delight and inform animal lovers of all stripes.

Toshimitsu Matsuhashi is the former keeper at one of Japan’s largest aquariums, a professional animal photographer, and the author of How to Hold Animals.