"Biology of Turtles" is VERY inappropriately titled. A more suitable title would have been "Anatomy of Turtles, with Notes on Biomechanics and Physiology." The content of this book revolves around turtle anatomy (little surprise since this book is the brainchild of a previous vertebrate anatomy conference), and mostly bony anatomy at that. There are also chapters on pulmonary and brain topics and the biomechanics of limb motion and feeding action