New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, WAS $32. Follow Bass on his far-flung adventure in southwest Africa on the trail of a fascinating and vulnerable species. Driven to the brink of extinction by poaching and war, human intervention and cutting-edge conservation has saved the black rhinos, for now. Against... More
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1996. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $44. Generally about the wildlife of India, with a strong emphasis on tigers. More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, maps. WAS $50. One of the first field guides dedicated to the carnivores of Central America. It describes the four families and the individual species that occur in the region. Hardcover out of print. This book is one of the... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings. WAS $60. Describes treeshrew habitat, diet, nesting habits, home range, activity patterns, social behaviour, and their unique parental care system. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, text illustrations, diagrams. WAS $90. Presents an overview of what we know about the natural history, biology, and ecology of whales in the broad context of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems. The volume encompasses multiple points of... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, line drawings. WAS $38. Answers intriguing questions about members of the deer family Cervidae. From the diminutive pudu of South America that weighs 7kg to male moose that weigh close to 900kg, Feldhamer and McShea explore... More
New York: Abrams, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. WAS $75. Here the famed primatologist explores the great ape (gorillas, chimpanzees - including bonobos - and orangutans) interpreting the latest research and describing relationships among the different species, all in the context of the mounting threat of extinction. Over 125 up-close... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1989. Quarto, two volumes, colour illustrations. WAS $163. These two volumes are divided into seven sections, each devoted to a major field of research on macropod biology. The sections are evolution, zoogeography and community ecology; diet, feeding and digestion; energy, water and temperature relations; reproductive biology;... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1997. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. WAS $50. A compilation of research papers from leading marine mammal scientists examining trends in marine mammal studies. 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
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
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs. WAS $50. Did you know that there are more than 90 species of rabbits, hares, and pikas, rabbits' little-known cousins? And that new species are still being found? Or that baby rabbits nurse from their mothers... 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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs, maps, graphs, tables. WAS $177. A great deal has been written about primates; however few volumes have focused on an entire community of sympatric monkeys at a single site. Drawing upon diverse sets of data, the... More
White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $30. Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years;... More
New York: Free Press, 2007. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, maps, remainder mark. WAS $35. One day, while observing elephants at a waterhole in Namibia, the author saw the matriarch suddenly turn, flatten her ears, and lift a leg off the ground. Several other females then turned to face... More
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2002. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. WAS $28. Traces the lives of gray whales during their migrations between Alaska and Mexico, from their summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea to winter birthing lagoons in Baja, examining their rich history including the conflict between... More
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $110. Taking an integrated approach to the biology of marine carnivores twenty-two prominent researchers compare marine mammals with one another and with terrestrial animals, providing a framework for fundamental biological and ecological concepts. They describe functional morphology, sensory systems, energetics... More
New York: Grove Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. WAS $25 This is the inspiring story of a woman who has dedicated her life to providing refuge for chimpanzees in Africa--and some of the chimps who have become part of her family along the way. More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2003. Octavo, paperback, WAS $25. For one thousand years, the Milu - an exotic species of deer with the neck of a camel, horns of a stag, feet of a cow, and tail of a donkey - existed only in the Chinese emperor' s private park... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations, maps. WAS $150. Conservation of mammals in the coniferous forests of western North America has shifted in recent years from species based strategies to community and ecosystem based strategies, resulting in an increase in the available information on mammalian... More