Mammals category: 741 books

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller. As seen on Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm. Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nine children and husband Clive. And, as readers of her previous bestsellers will know, every day at Ravenseat brings surprises. In Adventures...

Very few of the 2.5 million people who visit Yellowstone National Park and who are awed by America's only continuously wild and genetically pure bison herd, are aware that over the past decade, state and federal agencies have engaged in the wanton slaughter of 3,500 of these magnificent animals, solely...

Go on a journey across the fascinating sub-continent of India with this book from the Foto­grafeneditionen series. A total of 16 photographers travelled to the Ranthambore, Kaziranga, Gir, Kanha and Bandhavgarh National Parks in various trips. They returned with vibrant and colourful pictures of Bengal...

From its origins in the swamps of Southeast Asia to its role in the medieval Black Death to its unshakeable niche in modern urban centers, the rat has incredible evolutionary advantages. Combining biology with history, and social commentary with firsthand experience, Rat dispels the myths and exposes...

A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth...

COME ON A GREAT ADVENTURE WITH GERRY THE GIRAFFE! A true-to-life story about the tallest animal on land. Discover where they live, what they eat, and how they survive. Jan Latta is the author and photographer of True to Life Books. To create the books she follows animals every day,...

This high-interest, low-vocabulary photostory is suitable for adult basic education (ABE) and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students who are beginning readers. Did you know that grey seals can stay under water for 20 minutes? And that the mother seals leave their young only two or three weeks...

Since its first publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this second revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-date bat facts, including a wealth of new information on bat house design and current threats to bat survival.

Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradley's Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer her...

This is an outstanding treatise on one of America’s most widely hunted and most important big-game animals. Although thousands of sportsmen take to the field each year in quest of trophies, the perpetuation of elk hunting in America depends entirely upon proper management of the herds. Whether management...

Beavers can and do dramatically change the landscape. The beaver is a keystone species—their skills as foresters and engineers create and maintain ponds and wetlands that increase biodiversity, purify water, and prevent large-scale flooding. Biologists have long studied their daily and seasonal...

COME ON A GREAT ADVENTURE WITH MIA THE MEERKAT! A true-to-life story about a family of meerkats. Discover where they live, how they hunt, what they eat, and how they survive. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jan Latta is the author and photographer of True to Life Books. To create the books she...

COME ON A GREAT ADVENTURE WITH LENA THE LION! A true-to-life story about a pride of lions. Discover where they live, how they hunt, what they eat, and how they survive. Jan Latta is the author and photographer of True to Life Books. To create the books she follows animals every...

A feel-good memoir about a man and his hedgehog Massimo Vacchetta, an Italian veterinarian specializing in large animals, is recently divorced and feeling heartbroken and depressed—until the day that someone brings an orphaned baby hedgehog into his clinic. As the tiny hedgehog cries and...