Mammals

The Dusky-footed Wood Rat: A Record of Observations Made on the Hastings Natural History Reservation provides a detailed account of the dusky-footed wood rat, a rodent species studied extensively at the Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation...

The Dusky-footed Wood Rat: A Record of Observations Made on the Hastings Natural History Reservation provides a detailed account of the dusky-footed wood rat, a rodent species studied extensively at the Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780643096622Author Graeme CoulsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CSIRO PublishingPublisher CSIRO Publishing

This book is the comprehensive guide for ecologists undertaking site surveys for Eurasian otters. It describes how to carry out initial field-sign surveys, select sites for camera-trapping, deploy camera-traps and interpret data. The methods described...

Focusing on the internal workings of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the author explores the impact of political and economic imperatives on the production and interpretation of scientific research. Central to this work are the...

When people today hear "paleontology," they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dramatic demonstrations of the history of life focused on the developmental history of mammals. The Age of Mammals examines how...

A beautifully illustrated account of the evolutionary journey of mammals in Africa.For more than 80 million years, "Island Africa" was a vast, isolated landmass south of the ancient Tethys Sea. Despite this isolation, waves of pioneering mammals crossed...

In 1882 the Smithsonian Institution Arctic scientist, Lucien McShan Turner, traveled to the Ungava District that encompasses Northern Quebec and Labrador. There he spent 20 months as part of a mission to record meteorological data for an International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781422377475Author Edwin H. ColbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226183190Author Annalisa BertaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783759787538Author Helmut HemmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Bod - Books on DemandPublisher Bod - Books on DemandWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616465933Author Neil FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 718Imprint Coachwhip PublicationsPublisher Coachwhip PublicationsWeight(grams) 1034g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949501377Author Karl P N ShukerFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Anomalist BooksPublisher Anomalist BooksWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736606315Author Christine C HassFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Wild Mountain EchoesPublisher Wild Mountain EchoesWeight(grams) 152g

The appearance of the first volume of a projected series is the occasion for comment on scope, aims, and genesis of the work. The scope of Current Ornithology is all of the biology of birds. Ornithology, as a whole-organism science, is concerned with...

This volume details all British sites that have yielded fossil reptiles, describing in detail the fifty most important localities and providing an extensive bibliography of everything published on British Fossil reptiles since 1676.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905723249Author Richard FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint CFZ PressPublisher CFZ PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616460198Author Chad ArmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 686Imprint Coachwhip PublicationsPublisher Coachwhip PublicationsWeight(grams) 1161g

This book offers a comprehensive review of the biology of snakes, focusing on Italian species. The snakes of Italy belong to the two families Colubridae and Viperidae, and for each species the systematic classification and chorology including...

'Cannabinoids' is a broad term covering a group of natural products from Cannabis sativa, one of which locks on to specific receptors - protein molecules on the surface of cells - known as cannabinoid receptors. Over the past decades scientists have...

The originality of this volume is to reveal to the reader the fascination of some unfamiliar sensory organs that are sometimes ignored and often misunderstood. These receptors have only recently been identified and their functional specificity is in some...

Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in Indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632390295Author Roger CreedFormat HardbackImprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 499g

One of iconic Africa's Big Five, the African buffalo is the largest African bovine or antelope that occurs throughout most of sub-Sahara and in a wide range of ecosystems from savanna to rainforest. The African buffalo is also one of the most successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407771Author Frans de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The word armadillo is Spanish for "little armored one." This midsize mammal that looks like a walking tank is a source of fascination for many people but a mystery to almost all. Dating back at least eleven million years, the nocturnal, burrowing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789980945129Author James MenziesFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint University of Papua New Guinea PressPublisher University of Papua New Guinea...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681085555Author Edith Arenas-RiosFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626543997Author Bruce D PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986282107Author Theodore I GrandFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Brg ScientificPublisher Brg ScientificWeight(grams) 1061g

What One Pride Can Teach Us About Survival, Fear, and Family#1 New Release in Biology of Cats, Lions & TigersDiscover the true survival story of how K’wasi the lion cub overcame unimaginable odds, was saved and nurtured by his adopted mother and family,...

The grey wolf is one of the world's most polarizing and charismatic species. Respected, adored, or held in awe by many as an icon of wilderness, wolves have also sparked fear and hatred when they have come into conflict with human presence. Not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788177552058Author Frank FinnFormat HardbackPage Count 347Imprint Cosmo PublicationsPublisher Cosmo Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896445182Author Robert L. FriedheimFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint CCI PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 694g

Why does it benefit some male and female animals to live separately?Sexual segregation, wherein the sexes of a species live apart for long periods of time, has far-reaching consequences for the ecology, behavior, and conservation of hooved mammals, which...

In the geological blink of an eye, mammals moved from an obscure group of vertebrates into a class of planetary dominance. Why? J. David Archibald's provocative study identifies the fall of dinosaurs as the factor that allowed mammals to evolve into the...

The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the...

Marine Mammal Ecotoxicology: Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Population Health provides tactics on how to develop a comprehensive methodology for the study of existing threats to marine mammals. By presenting a conservation-biology approach and new and...

From 1984 through 1995 a small band of ecologists led by Pan Wenshi from Peking University conducted a study of wild giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. This project was the first Chinese-led conservation project in China and was...

In this first-ever landmark study of New Mexico's wild carnivores, Jean-Luc E. Cartron and Jennifer K. Frey have assembled a team of leading southwestern biologists to explore the animals and the major issues that shape their continued presence in the...