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SE CSC Researcher, Mitch Eaton, Contributes to New Book on Crocodiles

March 10, 2015

Croc Book cover imageMitch Eaton, Research Ecologist with the SE Climate Science Center, is a contributor to a new book, Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians, a comprehensive review of current knowledge about the world’s largest and most famous living reptiles. It is richly illustrated with more than 500 colour photographs and black and white illustrations, this book will be a benchmark reference work for crocodylian biologists, herpetologists and vertebrate biologists for years to come.
Eaton helped to write part of the first chapter on recent taxonomic changes in the African crocodiles, and contributed about a dozen or so photographs from his research work in Congo and Gabon.

Alain Mougoula weighs a large male dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) captured in Loango National Park, Gabon, as part of Mitch Eaton's dissertation research on the ecology, phylogeography and population dynamics of this heavily hunted species.
Alain Mougoula weighs a large male dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) captured in Loango National Park, Gabon, as part of Mitch Eaton’s dissertation research on the ecology, phylogeography and population dynamics of this heavily hunted species.

Please visit Cornell University Press for more information about the book and purchasing details.