Wildlife: Mammals

Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers have spent much of the last decade in the company of the world-famous chimpanzees of Tanzania's Gombe National Park, get...

In 2005, when the first Beat about the bush was published, it was an instant success and everyone wanted more. Instead of simply reprinting the boo...

Over twenty species of mammals make use of the green spaces and the brick and timber habitats of our towns and cities-from bats and wood mice, to m...

A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discip...

Right across Britain, people are making remarkable claims - they are reporting large feral cats resembling panthers, pumas and lynx. Month after mo...

An utter delight - Jennifer Tetlow. In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with Britis...

Authoritative, lavishly illustrated, and beautifully designed, this photographic ID of British and Irish flora and fauna will captivate nature enth...

Elephants are a keystone species and have been a part of the magic of the thickly forested land of South Africa for millennia. This book focuses...

Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker''s...

The book is beautifully designed, and the contents are well organized and will be interesting to all.... An excellent text for a relevant course or...

In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as the most gigantic ape known to zoology. Described by European exp...

How old is the sloth? How do sloths have sex?How did a sloth save Dublin?The answers to these questions, and more, are found in this wonderfully en...

A comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to the fascinating natural history of the pig, from prehistory to the present At any given time, t...

At any given time there are around one billion pigs in the world; that''''s one for every seven of us. And where would we be without them? Prolific...

For seventeen years, Ian McAllister has lived on the rugged north coast of British Columbia, one of the last places on the planet where wolves live...

The Africa-wide Great Elephant Census of 2016 produced shocking findings: a decimated elephant population whose numbers were continuing to plummet....