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London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. WAS $25. Reaktion Animal Series. The flamingo is possibly the most easily recognized bird in the world. But it is not a single species - there are six different species of flamingos, each differing in size and colour. Caitlin R. Kight presents..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. WAS $82.50. Despite strong public interest in marine mammals and the incredible popularity of whale watching, particularly in the North Atlantic, many marine mammal populations remain little known. This fully illustrated book is a comprehensive and attractive guide..... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, maps. WAS $19. In Australia only 0.5% of the original area of lowland grasslands remains in even semi-natural condition. More
Melbourne FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2001. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. WAS $60. This popular handbook for the captive husbandry and breeding of tarantulas, originally published in the German language, is now available in English. The taxonomy has been updated by the author. The text is in two sections. The..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent and influential scientist. Jointly with Konrad Lorenz, he laid the foundation for a new science, the biological..... More
Frankfurt: Ikan- Unterwasserarchiv, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This book includes thousands of photographs of selected groups of marine invertebrates. The primary aim is to assist people who have a keen interest in the small animals they encounter in the sea other than fishes. Presented here are the species..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, distribution maps. WAS $50. This full-colour field guide complements a similar book on the economically important sharks and rays of Indonesia. It is the result of a collaborative project between the governments of the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, (2009. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations by Lindsay Marshall, text illustrations, maps. WAS $120. The second edition of this classic book on the cartilaginous fishes in Australia. This edition covers 323 species of sharks, rays and chimaerids, including species descriptions, full-colour illustrations, line illustrations and distribution..... More
London: The Natural History Press, 2006. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, line drawings. WAS $40. This book explores the fates of whales and dolphins and how they became intertwined with human history. The story begins over 1000 years ago when hunters first took up harpoons and went to sea in search..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Guana, in the British Virgin Islands, is home to a remarkably diverse assortment of animal and plant life: mangroves, flamingos, iguanas, frogs, birds, snakes, spiders, tortoises, grasshoppers, and bats, to name but a few. What is so..... More
Sydney: Surrey Beatty, 1991. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. WAS $85. A collection of papers on Koala biology and management. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Octavo, paperback, photographs (one colour), maps, diagrams. University of California Publications in Zoology, Volume 132. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Small quarto, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. WAS $120. The book is divided into four parts: Evolutionary history of the Giant Panda; Studies of Giant Panda biology; Pandas and their habitats; and Giant Panda conservation. It combines the latest findings from the..... More
2005. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations. WAS $25. The story of the discovery, naming and campaign to use the Gogo fish as WA's fossil emblem. Although scientific in content, this book is focused towards a young audience. More
New York: Counterpoint, 2004. Octavo, dustwrapper, remainder mark. WAS $45. Original in approach and incisive in its questions, "Beluga Days" explores how conservation laws, management policies and human behaviours have affected the shrinking beluga population. Lord encounters an ongoing debate wrestling with the immediate need to protect the whales... More
Sydney: Royal Zoological of NSW, 1994. Quarto, paperback, illustrations. WAS $50. This first ever book on the future of the fauna of western New South Wales presents the information, ideas and outlook of people highly experienced in researching and managing the fauna and of the area. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, (2004. second edition). Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. WAS $60. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. An all new, fully revised and outstanding series of papers on current issues in the conservation of forest fauna. The book contains..... More
Sydney: Royal Zoological of NSW, 2007. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations, maps. WAS $75. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. In an era when the decline in biodiversity is widely presented as an extinction crisis, there exists the converse problem of overabundance both of native..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. WAS $61. In the wilds of which one continent do Canadian beavers, white-tailed deer, raccoons, American mink, Algerian hedgehogs, Egyptian slit-faced bats, Chinese water deer, golden jackals, red-necked wallabies, and Barbary apes scamper or flutter about? Europe. This..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, (2009. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. WAS $40. With twenty per cent of the earth's species facing extinction by 2030, this striking atlas brings up to date the data on those that have been lost already, those that are threatened, and those that..... More
London: T & A D Poyser, 1994. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations. This is the first book devoted to the subject of the 140 National Nature Reserves of England. Peter Marren, who until 1992 was employed by English Nature and its predecessor the Nature Conservancy Council, was given access..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2010. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. WAS $85. A richly-illustrated cultural guide to Britain's insect life, seen through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists and naturalists - from the great Tudor naturalist, Thomas Muffet (father of Little Miss Muffet) to Irvine Welsh's talking tapeworm in..... More
Stillwater: Voyager Press, 2003. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $30. Although an excellent general introduction to our favorite marine mammals, we must admit that we were even more enthralled with the magnificent wildlife photography featured in this book. In addition to facts on some 85 species, including right and..... More
London: Poyser, 1998. Octavo, one colour plate, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $100. The nuthatches are common and widespread birds throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but only poorly studied until quite recently. Erik Matthysen's extensive studies, started in 1982, have done much to illuminate the ecology of the Eurasian..... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1988. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. WAS $56. This volume contains the proceedings of a WWF Australia sponsored workshop on the conservation of Australia's wetlands held in 1986. This workshop provided the first national overview of the status of wetlands in Australia and their conservation requirements... More