Antelope Survey Update, Number 9: November 2004
Philipe Chardonnet and Bertrand Chardonnet
80 pages | illus, maps | IGF
Pbk | 2004 | #146750A |
£25.50
Duikers of Africa: Masters of the African Forest Floor
A Study of Duikers - People - Hunting and Bushmeat
Vivian J Wilson
This is the most in-depth monograph ever produced on this small African antelope. This
mammoth work is based on 12 years of fieldwork. ....
798 pages | Col photos, col & b/w illus,
figs, tabs, maps | Zimbi Books
Hbk | 2005 | 0620337737 | #151546A |
£125.00
Pursuing Giraffe
A 1950s Adventure
Anne I Dagg
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream
to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing ....
279 pages | illus | Wilfrid Laurier UP
Pbk | 2006 | 0889204632 | #160150A |
£15.99
Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe
Linking Practical and Scientific Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems
Edited by BC Forbes, M Bölter,
L Müller-Wille, J Hukkinen, F Müller and N Gunslay
The management of reindeer herds in northernmost Europe has been dramatically altered by
changes in the environment, largely the result of human activities. This volume ....
397 pages | 71 illus, 2 in colour, and 32
tables | Springer
Hbk | 2006 | 3540260870 | #154644A |
£104.00
Retracing the Aurochs
History, Morphology and Ecology of an Extinct Wild Ox
C Van Vuure
Fascinating book on the aurochs, including the quite unbelievable story of how the Heck
brothers bred `reconstituted' aurochs. ....
431 pages | Tabs, b/w & col photos, figs
| Pensoft
Hbk | 2005 | 9546422355 | #155477A |
£60.00
Mammals: Rodents
An Atlas of the Geographic Distribution of the Arvicoline
Rodents of the World (Rodentia: Muridae, Arvicolinae)
Georgy I
Shenbrot and Boris R Krasnov
Information on species recors are scattered in publications and museum catalogues, but only a
few taxa have merited enough attention for a compilation of the available data on ....
336 pages | Maps | Pensoft
Hbk | 2005 | 9546422436 | #155663A |
£75.00
Beavers in Britain's Past
Bryony Coles
Part ecology, part archaeology and part history, "Beavers in Britain's Past" explores the
evidence for Castor fiber, the European beaver from late in the last ice age ....
192 pages | illus | Oxbow
Pbk | 2006 | 1842172263 | #158938A |
£35.00
The Conservation of Red Squirrels, Sciurus vulgaris L.
Edited by John Gurnell and Peter Lurz
Papers from a 1997 meeting at the Zoological Society of London, organized by the People's
Trust for Endangered Species. ....
163 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | People's
Trust
Pbk | 1997 | 1855800144 | #082657A |
£9.95
Dormice
Pat Morris
Pat Morris has spent 20 years researching both species of dormouse; as Chief Nutter he has
organised two great nut hunts in order to find where hazel dormice are still ....
144 pages | 50 illus | Whittet
Hbk | 2004 | 1873580649 | #145892A |
£9.99
The Dormouse
Paul Bright and Pat Morris
New edition of this excellent
booklet on the dormouse, which revises and replaces the 1992 first
edition. ....
28 pages | Col photos,b/w illus,graphs |
Mammal
Society
Pbk | 2005 | 0906282535 | #152825A |
£3.50
The Dormouse Conservation Handbook
Paul Bright, Pat Morris and Tony Mitchell-Jones
This considerably expanded second edition of the Dormouse Conservation Handbook draws
together much information on the species that has been gathered since the first edition ....
73 pages | Figs, tabs | English Nature
Pbk | 2006 | 1857162196 | #160461A |
£5.50
Proceedings of the Water Vole Conference 16th October 1999
Edited by Valerie Keeble and Julia Chase Grey
Collection of papers from a conference organised by PTES in October 1999 addressing the
broader issues of water vole decline. Twelve papers are presented in total ranging from ....
62 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | People's
Trust
Pbk | 2000 | 1855800225 | #134339A |
£8.50
Rat
Jonathan Burt
Excellent cultural history of the rat, in the Reaktion 'Animal' series. ....
189 pages | 100 illustrations, 25 in
colour | Reaktion Books
Pbk | 2005 | 1861892241 | #152358A |
£12.95
Rats
A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Robert Sullivan
Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely
account of a year spent in a
garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Sullivan spends the year with a ....
256 pages | - | Granta
Pbk | 2006 | 1862078181 | #158744A |
£8.99
The Red Squirrel
Redressing the Wrong
Charles Dutton
Research shows that if current practices continue, the red squirrel will be extinct on mainland
Britain and Ireland within 20 years. So it is timely that Charles Dutton, who ....
112 pages | Col photos, maps, figs |
European Squirrel Initiative
Pbk | 2004 | 0954757603 | #152084A |
£31.00
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Squirrels
The Animal Answer Guide
Richard W Thorington and Katie Ferrell
Did you know that a groundhog is really a type of squirrel? That squirrels control their body
temperature with their tails? That most squirrels have yellow-tinted eye lenses ....
183 pages | 38 color illustrations, 74
halftone, 4 line illustrations | Johns
Hopkins UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0801884020 | #160127A |
£30.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0801884039 | #160128A |
£16.50
The Water Vole
G Woodroffe
Concise guide to the largest of Britain's voles. ....
24 pages | Col photos, illus, maps |
Mammal Society
Pbk | 1996 | 0906282446 | #054340A |
£3.95
Water Vole Conservation Handbook
Rob Strachan and Tom Moorhouse
Water voles are small burrowing rodents, which are associated with all kinds of water bodies.
This handbook aims to improve the understanding and awareness of the ....
133 pages | Col and b/w photos, illus,
figs | Wild Cru
Pbk | 2006 | 095463764X | #157383A |
£37.00
Mammals: Rabbits, Pikas & Hares (Lagomorpha)
The Hare
Jill Mason
Presents a lively and readable account of the natural history of the hare, covering its behaviour
throughout the seasons, its breeding, its habitat, its survival techniques, ....
184 pages | Col illus | Merlin Unwin
Hbk | 2005 | 1873674813 | #150336A |
£20.00
Marine Mammals: General
Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
Edited by William Perrin, Bernd Wursig and JGM Thewissen
Comprehensive information is organised alphabetically on
all aspects of marine mammals,
including basic biology and anatomy, physiology, systematics, evolution, behaviour, ....
1414 pages | Col photos, b/w photos,
illus, figs | Academic Press
Hbk | 2002 | 0125513402 | #119790A |
£94.95
Fauna Sinica: Mammalia, Volume 9: Cetacea: Carnivora: Phocoidea
Sirenia
Zhou Kaiya
The Chinese marine mammals include representatives in three mammalian orders: Cetacea,
Carnivora and Sirenia. The cetacean fauna contains 9 of the world's 14 cetacean families ....
326 pages | Col plates, b/w illus |
Science Press
Hbk | 2004 | 7030134419 | #158151A |
£28.95
The Florida Manatee
Biology and Conservation
RL Reep and RK Bonde
Tells a tale of the mysterious manatee for professionals and interested lay people alike. This
work attempts to humanize the sometimes difficult-to-grasp characteristics ....
189 pages | 40 figs | Florida University
Presses
Hbk | 2006 | 081302949X | #160300A |
£26.50
Marine Mammal Populations and Ocean Noise
Determining When Noise Causes Biologically Significant Effects
National Research Council
A series of marine mammal strandings, lawsuits, legislative hearings and, most recently, a
report from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, have all drawn attention to the ....
126 pages | - | National Academies Press
Pbk | 2005 | 0309094496 | #157724A |
£21.95
Marine Mammals
Evolutionary Biology
Annalisa Berta, James L Sumich and Kit M Kovacs
New edition of this excellent textbook. ....
547 pages | B/w illus, figs | Academic
Press
Hbk | 2005 | 0120885522 | #155066A |
£43.99
Marine Mammals Ashore
A Field Guide for Strandings
JR Geraci and VJ Lounsbury
A practical manual on how to deal with strandings of marine mammals.
Chapters cover
everything from dealing with the media, to specimen and data collection, field ....
371 pages | Col & b/w illus | National
Aquarium Baltimore
Spiralbound | 2005 | 0977460908 |
#158705A |
£49.50
Marine Mammals of Svalbard
KM Kovacs, I Gjertz and C Lydersen
Svalbard has a diverse and abundant marine mammal community. This booklet and on-deck ID
sheet are intended to serve as field identification guides to these mammals. ....
64 pages | Col photos & illus | Norsk
Polarinstitutt
Hbk | 2004 | 8276662080 | #149257A |
£22.50
Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues
Edited by Nick Gales, Mark Hindell and Roger Kirkwood
68 leading scientists from 12 mainly southern hemisphere countries contribute to this
comprehensive review of human interaction with marine mammals, focusing in particular on ....
446 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs |
CSIRO
Hbk | 2003 | 0643069534 | #143326A |
£75.50
Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals
National Research Council
Sections on: Sources of sound in the ocean and long-term trends in ocean noise; Effects of
noise on marine mammals; Modeling and databases of noise in the marine environment; ....
192 pages | Figs, tabs | National
Academies Press
Pbk | 2003 | 0309085365 | #141208A |
£28.99
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