This definitive visual guide takes a unique look at what it means to be a human being. From evolution and biology to society, culture, and the future aspects of human life, this book examines the qualities that all humans share and profiles more than 250 peoples who inhabit the world.
This authoritative volume starts with a clear introduction to the animal world, followed by a superbly illustrated survey of world habitats. The main part of the book, a comprehensive catalog, profiles more than 2,000 individual species. Photographs. Young Adult.
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date field guide to the mammals of North America. Written by two leading authorities, no other reference covers all resident species north of Mexico, mammals large and small. With full-color illustrations for every one of the 442 species, "Mammals of North America" shows the user how to identify any mammal ...
Wilson and Reeder's "Mammal Species of the World" is the classic reference book on the taxonomic classification and distribution of the more than 5400 species of mammals that exist today. The third edition includes detailed information on nomenclature and, for the first time, common names. Each concise entry covers type locality, distribution, ...
This text updates the threat to many of the world's plant and animal species outlined in the earlier volume "Biodiversity", and provides a ten-year progress report on this new and vitally important area of biological science.
Long the subject of myth and superstition, bats have been among the most misunderstood of mammals due to their nocturnal habits, capacity for flight, and strange appearance. Seeking to dispel the myths associated with these remarkable creatures, "Bats in Question" covers all aspects of bat biology in a practical question-and-answer format. 134 ...
Mercedes S. Foster, series editor. This series will detail standard field methods for qualitative and quantitative sampling of biological diversity in several major groups of plants and animals. A comprehensive manual for designing and implementing inventories of mammalian species, this volume establishes essential standards for a key aspect of ...
Common Names of Mammals of the World offers a comprehensive, useful reference not only for mammalogists but also for wildlife managers, conservation biologists, environmental law enforcement agencies, zoologists, and others interested in the world's mammals.
Seeking to dispel the myths associated with these remarkable creatures and arguing far their key role in a balanced ecosystem, Bats in Question covers all aspects of bat biology in a practical question-and-answer format. Describing where bats live, how they use echolocation to navigate, and even why they hang upside down, the book also gives the ...
Mercedes S. Foster, series editor. This series will detail standard field methods for qualitative and quantitative sampling of biological diversity in several major groups of plants and animals. A comprehensive manual for designing and implementing inventories of mammalian species, this volume establishes essential standards for a key aspect of ...
A landmark reference to one of the world's most complex and most studied tropical ecosystems, this study documents the general floristics, flora, and fauna of the Manu Biosphere Reserve in southeastern Peru.
This volume summarizes the only intensive, long-term study conducted on the local distribution, abundance, and natural history of the common fruit bat.
Artie, an impressionable young pig, and Merlin, a bat, explore the world of mammals and the meaning of friendship. Through gentle humor and engaging dialogue, topics such as hibernation, camouflage, echolocation, scientific and common names, predation, and mammalian defense mechanisms are introduced and explained simply but accurately. Artie ...
The best-selling field guide that 'sets new standards' ("New Scientist") and 'makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States...and Canada obsolete' ("Journal of Mammalogy"), is now even better. Covering 20 species recognized since 2002 and including 13 new color plates, this fully revised edition of "Mammals of North America" ...
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