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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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Entomology

Nature Underfoot Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us

Hainze John

ISBN: HB: 9780300242782, Yale University Press, April 2020
272 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Fruit flies, silverfish, dandelions, and crabgrass are the bane of many people and the target of numerous chemical and physical eradication efforts. In this compelling reassessment of the relationship between humans and the natural world, John Hainze...

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Ecology

Birds

Natural Encounters Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons

Beehler Bruce M., Anderton John C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300243482, Yale University Press, July 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 28 black&white illus.

In this "personal encyclopedia of nature's seasons", lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year?long journey through the seasons as he describes the...

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Birds

Narrow Edge A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey

Cramer Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300219692, ISBN: HB: 9780300185195, Yale University Press, June 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they...

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Mammals

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals A Field Guide

Emmons Louise H., Feer François

ISBN: PB: 9780226207216, University of Chicago Press, September 1997
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 colour plates, 9 halftones, 195 maps, 14 line drawings

"Neotropical Rainforest Mammals", the first color-illustrated field guide to these marvelously diverse and elusive creatures, has enjoyed tremendous success since its initial publication in 1990. Ecotourists and field researchers alike have applauded...

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Ecology

Neotropical Birds Ecology and Conservation

Stotz Douglas F., Fitzpatrick John W., Parker III Theodore A., Moskovits Debra K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226776309, ISBN: HB: 9780226776293, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
502 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 46 halftones, 51 line drawings, 64 tables

Four of the world's leading ornithologists and ardent conservationists have produced this unique synthesis of the ecological information on all 4,037 species of birds found from Mexico south to Tierra del Fuego. In tables that cover more than 300 pag...

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