San Diego: Academic Press, (2013. third edition), Quarto, laminated boards, black and white photographs, illustrations, maps. The long-awaited revision of the standard student text on primate evolution. Offers full coverage of newly discovered fossils and the latest taxonomy. Features over 200 new illustrations, tables and revised evolutionary trees. For many..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Deer appear in religion and mythology, on coats of arms, in fine art, and in literature ranging from The Yearling to Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia. In this book, veterinarian and deer farmer John Fletcher brings..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2003. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. This book brings together contributions from 68 leading scientists from 12 countries to provide an up-to-date review on the way we manage our interactions with whales, dolphins, seals and dugongs. The book examines how we have fared conserving the world's marine mammal..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white photographs, illustrations, line drawings. In this comprehensively illustrated, up-to-date textbook, primate anatomist Daniel L. Gebo provides straightforward explanations of primate anatomy that move logically through the body plan and across species. Including only what is essential in relation..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2014]. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Originally published in 1986. The contributors to this volume have accomplished a breakthrough in our ability to collect data on ocean-dwelling mammals. In the first large-scale comparison of fur seals, they have employed quantitative methods and a special instrument..... More
Canada: 2000. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Through an engaging text and amazing full-colour photography this book explores the intelligence, vulnerability, and charisma of this fascinating family. The most complex creatures in the animal kingdom, great apes communicate through an extensive system of hoots and calls; empathize with and console..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photogaphs and illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Only coming to prominence in the mid-nineteenth century when English, French and American scientists encountered the animal for the first time, the gorilla's physical resemblance to humans immediately struck a chord, marking the..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, The Western world has had an enduring love affair with dolphins since the early 1960s, with fanciful claims of their 'healing powers' and 'super intelligence'. Myths and pseudoscience abound on the subject. Justin Gregg weighs up the claims made about dolphin intelligence and..... More
Vercelli: White Star, 2011. Quarto, dustwrapper, color photographs. A volume of photographs that invites you to discover cetaceans, this book provides a surprisingly intense portrait of dolphin and whale life, and a fascinating journey through images. The texts, which are scientifically rigorous but still pleasant to read, are accompanied by..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne Books, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this book Lou Grossfeldt writes about her love of and work with primates. One of Australia's leading experts on primate husbandry and care, Lou has spent more than two decades working to help save our primate family from extinction, and today..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs. Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia, regularly utilizing the edges of secondary forest and inhabiting numerous anthropogenic environments, including temple grounds, cities and farmlands. Yet despite..... More
Glebe: Pascal Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. This user friendly guide provides essential information on over 260 mammal species commonly found in Australia. This guide teams full colour photographs and biological information with the natural history of the animal's environment, habitat and evolution. Also..... More
London: A & C Black, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Garry Hamilton tells the fascinating story of the Arctic fox, from its evolutionary beginnings to its current life in the far north: mating and raising a family, hunting and scavenging, its relationship with the Polar bear and other arctic inhabitants..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings. Gorilla society is arranged according to the different and sometimes conflicting evolutionary goals of the sexes. This title introduces theories explaining primate societies; describes gorilla life history, ecology, and social systems; and explores both sexes' evolutionary..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations, graphs. Along with the chimpanzee, the bonobo is one of our two closest living relatives. Their relatively narrow geographic range (south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo) combined with the political instability of..... More
London: Evans Mitchell Books, 2009. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Gorillas, once considered ferocious beasts, are now regarded to be gentle giants. Only discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, the mountain gorilla has ever since been subject to considerable observation by field biologists and later by wildlife photographers and writers. Only in..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This accessible guide to the forty-seven species of bats found in the United States and Canada captures and explains the amazing diversity of these marvels of evolution. This book provides an overview of bat classification, biology, feeding behavior, habitats..... More
Cambridge: Fauna & Flora International, 2004. Quarto, paperback, maps. This is an excellent FFI publication on a population of Asian elephants that is highly endangered, but does not receive the attention that it deserves. The scope of this review is to bring together all the information currently known about elephants..... More
Munich: Bucher Verlag, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book offers an exciting expedition to the Bandhagarh Tiger Reserve in the heart of India. The authors show you the elusive tigers of India as few people have ever seen them. The most powerful predatory cat in the world rules the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees..... More
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1996. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Covers the distribution, habitat, feeding habits, stages of appearance, reproduction cycle, behaviour and conservation. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2011. Octavo, paperback, maps. Among the 42% of mammals classified as rodents, only 10% of them are significant agricultural pests. However, those 10% have 3 major impacts – they cause major pre-harvest losses to most stages of growing crops, cause post-harvest losses to stored grain and vegetables..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. BRAND NEW The story of a man's obsession with whales, which takes the author on a personal, historical and biographical journey, from his childhood to his fascination with Moby Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed..... More
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. In this comprehensive study, now available for the first time in paperback, Hoffmeister briefly characterizes the climate, soils, and vegetation of Illinois, particularly as they affect mammals. In addition to detailing mammals known to be..... More
Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Publications, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, map. A bestseller when first published in 1982, this title portrays a vivid picture of life and death on the African savannah through the story of a pride of lions in Kenya's world-famous Masai Mara game reserve. The story is..... More