Primates of West Africa: pocket identification guide.
Washington DC: Conservation International, 2010. colour illustrations, maps. This book covers the primates of West Africa to the north and west of the Sanaga River in Cameroon. More
Washington DC: Conservation International, 2010. colour illustrations, maps. This book covers the primates of West Africa to the north and west of the Sanaga River in Cameroon. More
New York: Firefly Books, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Rhinoceroses are being slaughtered throughout their ranges. The Vietnamese one-horned rhinoceros is extinct, the western black rhino is now believed to be extinct, and the northern white rhinoceros, the largest of them all, survives - only precariously - in captivity..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. From flat-topped acacia trees to great migrations of wildebeest across an edgeless expanse of grass, the Serengeti is one of the world's most renowned ecosystems. And at the apex of this incredible landscape prowls its seemingly indomitable ruler..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums, to sloths and sakis. This biological..... More
Johannesburg: Penguin Books, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. The elephants of the Knysna forest in South Africa have long been the subject of mystery and conjecture. Over the years they have taken on an almost mythical quality, with many doubting whether they existed at all. In 1994 the local..... More
London: Phoenix, 1999. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This remarkable memoir of scientific discovery begins at the Washington Park Zoo in Portland, Oregon, where Katy Payne's revolutionary work in the field of elephant communication began. It was there that she first discovered the idea that elephants use infrasonic sounds -- sounds below..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Features photographs by award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann. Introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their astonishing discoveries. This title explores the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics of ivory... More
Jacksonville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, map. Provides the first in-depth history of the attempts to provide legal protection for the manatee. Along the way, Pittman takes a close look at the major and minor players in the dispute, from Jacques-Yves Cousteau to Jeb..... More
London: Evans Mitchell Books, 2010. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Today the Tiger is an endangered species (the estimated total population as few as 2,500) and confined to small parts of Asia. Due in part to poaching and in part to loss of natural habitat, but all the responsibility of man..... More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. Reveals aspects of Manatee biology, their relation to the environment, and the biopolitics that result from the intersection of science and wildlife management. Looks at such topics as the microorganisms that cause manatee die-offs during red tide blooms..... More
London: A & C Black, 2002. Octavo, paperback, more than 320 colour illustrations, 418 colour photographs, maps. This field guide describes in detail all 120 species of the world's whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions, sirenians (sea cows and dugongs), sea otters, and the Polar Bear. More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. A comprehensive, colourfully illustrated and concise overview. Starts with an review of myths and legends and current human attitudes. Follows with an up to date scientific assessment of dophin evolution, behaviour, ecology, morphology, reproduciton, genetics, conservation and management..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. These stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. These stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. For the past thirty years the mountain gorillas of Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda have been the subject of many studies focusing on their behaviour and ecology. More
London: A & C Black, 2007. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. Takes us through the year of the Polar bear. Through summer and sunsets, spring and snow, the author shows us a glimpse of the beautiful harsh world and the magnificent animals that inhabit it. More
Rickmansworth: Evans Mitchell Books, 2007. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book tells of the evolution, social customs, complex lifestyles and natural habitats of man's closest relatives. A visual celebration of these great creatures, the book contains over 100 full colour photographs. The authors also concern themselves with the human..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs. Primate tourism is a growing occurrence, with increasing pressure coming from the private sector, governments, and conservation agencies. At the same time, some primate sites are working to exclude or severely restrict tourism because of problems that have..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations, maps. Science entwines with emotion as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas. Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, chronicling the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps, line drawings. Based on three years of study in the Serengeti National Park, George B. Schaller's book describes the vast impact of the Lion and other predators on the great herds of Wildebeest, Zebra, and Gazelle for..... More
College Station: Texas A & M UP, (1999. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. More
London: Natural History Museum, 2014. Quarto, oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs, map. Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers have spent much of the last decade in the company of the world-famous chimpanzees of Tanzania's Gombe National Park, getting to know their characters and learning about the intricacies of their lives. Tales..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, diagrams. Constantine Slobodchikoff and colleagues synthesize the results of their long-running study of Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), one of the keystone species of the short-grass prairie ecosystem. They set their research in the context of the biology..... More
Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, line drawings. Also know as Hector's dolphin, this species is confined to New Zealand waters. The authors' intensive study covers distribution, behaviour, biology, reproduction and communication, using photography as their principal research tool. Over 100 individual dolphins have been..... More
Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. In this book Bruce L. Smith takes readers on a journey to find one of the most elusive species of hoofed mammals in North America. The American mountain goat is confined to the remote and rugged mountains of the western..... More