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
Berkeley: University of California Press, (2004. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, text illustrations, maps. From river otters and minks to bobcats, pikas, and flying squirrels, California boasts a diverse and intriguing fauna. But many of these animals can be secretive, shy, and nocturnal and observing them in the wild..... More
Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2003. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Provides the first systematic attempt to understand relationships among primate life histories, ecology and social behaviour. Topics covered include how primate life histories interact with rates of evolution, predator pressure and diverse social structures; how the slow maturation of primates affects the..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, this book opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Kelsey's colourful first-person account, drawing from..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Aimed at younger readers, this book tells the story of a Bornean elephant named Itin. Primarily told through the eyes of Itin and his family, this book looks at the history of elephants in Borneo, their endangered status and the..... More
Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2013. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This title is a magnificently illustrated celebration of one of the most iconic, beloved, and mysterious animals in the world. The result of five years of meticulous research and stunning photography this book is a delightful volume that follows in the..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Covers the 38 most familiar breeds of pigs in Europe and North America. The breed profiles are written in engaging text that covers the history of each breed, its main characteristics and information about how to look after them. Each breed..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Provides the snapshot of South American fauna. With 252 photographs, this work presents descriptions of each of the mammal families found on the South American continent; and reveals the diversity of these incredible animals. It includes details about the "third..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, maps. Foreward by Harry W. Greene. More
Fairbanks: University of Alaska, Press, 2009. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. From the Polar bear and the Gray wolf to the Walrus and the River otter, there are 116 species of mammals in Alaska. This book serves as a comprehensive guide the mammals that occur or..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. As recently as 11,000 years ago mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2004. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A history of man and the tiger, published to coincide with the release of "Two Brothers", the film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, the acclaimed director of "The Bear" and "Seven Years in Tibet"., Jean-Jacques Annaud's latest film is the story of two..... More
Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1999. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. The aim of this book is to probide some ideas and useful ways forward for those who are facing the challenge of integrating woodland and deer management in lowland England. More
Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. This book takes readers on a wild ride to save one of the world's rarest animals from a band of Chinese billionaires. Many people think wild tigers are on the road to recovery, but they are in greater danger than..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs. line drawings. In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate societies", the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new..... More
[London]: JNCC, (2004. third edition). Quarto, paperback, illustrations. Particularly useful for bat workers in Europe, with information on survey methods, trapping and banding bats, etc. More