How To Keep Dinosaurs, Robert Mash
How To Keep Dinosaurs, Robert Mash
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How To Keep Dinosaurs
The perfect mix of humour and science

Author: Robert Mash

Narrator: Neil Gardner

Unabridged: 5 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2020


Synopsis

Perfect Christmas gift for any dinosaur enthusiast!

'Who could resist a handbook about potential pets that has a little symbol for "likes children" and a separate one for "likes children to eat"... wonderful' GUARDIAN

Hollywood and the popular press would have us believe that all dinosaurs are gigantic, hostile and untameable. In fact, there are many species that make charming and even useful companions:

Velociraptor - a splendid, loyal, fierce, friend

Deinonychus - will not eat dog food (dogs are another matter)

Tyrannosaurus - least suitable to keep; will need special licence

Ornithomimus - an appealing first dinosaur for the child anxious for her first ride

This book advises you which dinosaur is right for you and your home, from the city apartment dweller looking for a lap pet, to the country estate owner looking to tighten up on security.

HOW TO KEEP DINOSAURS is a bestselling guide, packed with the sort of information keen dinosaur keepers crave - from feeding and housing to curing common ailments, breeding and showing your animal. The author, a zoologist with extensive experience of dinosaurs, has provided a timely and much-needed source book for all those who keep dinosaurs and for the huge numbers who are contemplating getting one. It is as essential to every dinosaur keeper as a stout shovel and a tranquilliser rifle.

About Robert Mash

Robert Mash read Zoology at Oxford and researched Ethology at Oxford with Nobel Laureate Niko Tinbergen. He also worked as a programmer of teaching machines in Ruislip before moving to The British Medical Association as a researcher in the Department of Audio-Visual Communication. He was the head of biology at Clayesmore School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Evan on November 01, 2017

Hilarious and (tangentially) educational, with plenty of beautiful pictures.......more

Goodreads review by Samuel on November 24, 2018

If you love dinosaurs and imagine a world in which they were still alive and lived alongside humans, this book is for you. Presented as a serious guidebook in the vein of a pet or domesticated animal guide, How to Keep Dinosaurs details multiple different species and how they should be cared for. So......more

Goodreads review by Mizumi on November 17, 2011

[Review based on the Dutch edition] This is such a fun book to read and to browse through. It's simply what it says on the package: a book on how to keep dinosaurs, and it keeps up this idea of dinosaurs being alive and kept as pets or in the zoo the whole book, even in the final list of what dinosau......more

Goodreads review by Ross on January 02, 2008

A resource of inestimable value for anyone thinking about getting a pet dinosaur for themselves or their children. Clear, conscise language carefully explains the daily care and management of dinosaurs from the friendliest herbivore to the rowdiest of carnivores. Reader-friendly icons quickly alert......more

Goodreads review by Alex on June 12, 2007

I used this as fluff reading before bed. It straddles the line between amusing and factual... the information is laid out in such a way that you have to believe it's as true to life as we can be sure of, considering the extinct nature of dinosaurs, but the idea of keeping dinosaurs as pets, and the......more


Quotes

Who could resist a handbook about potential pets that has a little symbol for "likes children" and a separate one for "likes children to eat"... The pictures are wonderful and advice errs on the side of responsibility. The big carnivores, he says, are ideal for safari parks in the grounds of stately homes. Tyrannosaurus is "the ultimate animal for a zoo with dwindling attendances". But accidents will happen and "unfortunately mean fairly large scale death and destruction" GUARDIAN