Wild Mammals of North America
Title | Wild Mammals of North America PDF eBook |
Author | George A. Feldhamer |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 1250 |
Release | 2003-11-19 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780801874161 |
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Wild Mammals of North America
Title | Wild Mammals of North America PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph A. Chapman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1172 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Nature |
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General format for each chapter, which covers one mammalian species or species complex, contains distribution, description, physiology, reproduction, ecology, food habits, habitat, behaviour, mortality, age determination, management, economic status, current research and management needs and literature citations.
Mammals of North America
Title | Mammals of North America PDF eBook |
Author | Roland W. Kays |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2009-11-09 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1400833507 |
The best field guide to North American mammals 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 illustrates all 462 known mammal species in the United States and Canada—each in beautiful color and accurate detail. With a more up-to-date species list than any other guide, improved facing-page descriptions, easier-to-read distribution maps, updated common and scientific names, and track and scat illustrations, this slim, light, and easy-to-use volume is the must-have source for identifying North American mammals. Roland Kays and Don Wilson have scoured the technical literature to pull out the key differences between similar species, and illustrated these whenever possible, making the guide useful to amateur naturalists and professional zoologists alike. Casual animal watchers will appreciate the overview of mammal diversity and the tips on identifying animals they can spy in their binoculars, while scientists will appreciate the exacting detail needed to distinguish similar species, including illustrations of shrew teeth, bat toes, and whale dorsal fins. The best-illustrated and easiest-to-use field guide to North American mammals Beautiful and accurate color illustrations of all 462 mammals found in the United States and Canada—including 20 species recognized since 2002 112 color plates—including 13 new ones Key identification information—fully revised—on facing pages The most current taxonomy/species list Fully revised, easy-to-read range maps Illustrations of tracks, scat, and whale and dolphin dive sequences
Kaufman Field Guide to Mammals of North America
Title | Kaufman Field Guide to Mammals of North America PDF eBook |
Author | Nora Bowers |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2007-08 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780618951888 |
Featuring more than 1,200 color images, illustrations, and range maps, a compact reference identifies and describes every species of wild mammal found north of the Mexican border, furnishing information on key field marks for identification, characteristics, comparative colors, habitats, behavior, and more.
Behavior of North American Mammals
Title | Behavior of North American Mammals PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Elbroch |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Mammals |
ISBN | 9780618883455 |
A reference guide to the behavior of North American mammals.
Small Animals of North America Coloring Book
Title | Small Animals of North America Coloring Book PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth A. McClelland |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780486242170 |
Colorable illustrations of 46 common mammals: armadillo, badger, bobcat, kit fox, kangaroo rat, raccoon, pika, peccary, yellowbelly marmot, marten, ferret, weasel, mink, and many more. Full-color renderings appear on the cover, and captions offer scientific names, family classification, size, range, and more information.
Wild by Nature
Title | Wild by Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea L. Smalley |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2017-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1421422352 |
"Wild by Nature answers the question: how did indigenous animals shape the course of colonization in English America? The book argues that animals acted as obstacles to colonization because their wildness was at odds with Anglo-American legal assertions of possession. Animals and their pursuers transgressed the legal lines officials drew to demarcate colonizers' sovereignty and control over the landscape. Consequently, wild creatures became legal actors in the colonizing process--the subjects of statutes, the issues in court cases, and the parties to treaties--as authorities struggled to both contain and preserve the wildness that made those animals so valuable to English settler societies in North America in the first place. Only after wild creatures were brought under the state's legal ownership and control could the land be rationally organized and possessed. The book examines the colonization of American animals as a separate strand interwoven into a larger story of English colonizing in North America. As such, it proceeds along a different and longer timeline than other colonial histories, tracing a path through various wild animal frontiers from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake into the southern backcountry in the eighteenth century and across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth to end in the southern plains in the decades after the Civil War. Along the way, it maps out an argumentative arc that describes three manifestations of colonization as it variously applied to beavers, wolves, fish, deer, and bison. Wild by Nature engages broad questions about the environment, law, and society in early America"--