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Mammals

Nature's Mirror How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species

Andrei Mary Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780226730318, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world. Witne...

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Birds

Vulture The Private Life of an Unloved Bird

Fallon Katie

ISBN: PB: 9781684580330, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known a...

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Phyllostomid Bats A Unique Mammalian Radiation

Fleming Theodore H., Davalos Liliana M., Mello Marco A. R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226696126, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
512 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 9 colour plates, 46 halftones

With more than two hundred species distributed across most of mainland Mexico, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean Sea, the Phyllostomidae bat family (American leaf-nosed bats) is one of the world's most diverse mammalian families...

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Manual of the Mammalia An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"

Kelt Douglas A., Patton James L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226533001, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings

The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals". Inte...

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Sea Life

Ecology

All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Finley Carmel

ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...

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Why Study Biology by the Sea?

Matlin Karl S., Maienschein Jane, Ankeny Rachel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226672939, ISBN: HB: 9780226672762, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 6 line drawings

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at the...

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Alaska Codfish Chronicle A History of the Pacific Cod Fishery in Alaska

Mackovjak James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233898, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
557 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones

Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast...

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Thinking Like a Parrot Perspectives from the Wild

Bond Alan, Diamond Judy

ISBN: HB: 9780226248783, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line drawings

People form enduring emotional bonds with other animal species, such as dogs, cats, and horses. For the most part, these are domesticated animals, with one notable exception: Many people form close and supportive relationships with parrots, even thou...

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Dogs

How Dogs Work

Coppinger Raymond, Feinstein Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226637761, ISBN: HB: 9780226128139, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend", but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Copping...

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Mammals

Allowed to Grow Old Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries

Leshko Isa

ISBN: HB: 9780226391373, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 48 colour plates

There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet – a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usu...

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