Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Small octavo, softcover. Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any animals appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1999. sixth edition). Quarto, photographs, very good set in dustwrappers. One of the classics of mammalian literature, constantly upgraded and always value for money. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2007. reprint]. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, other illustrations. Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in the offspring of others, cooperative breeding poses a challenge to a Darwinian..... More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2010. Octavo, laminated boards, figures. Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and sometimes bizarre mammals evolved on islands, such as pig-sized elephants and hippos, giant rats and gorilla-sized lemurs..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two--in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings..... More