Wildlife: Mammals

The heart-warming story of how a tiny hedgehog helped one man find hope. 'Could you look after it for a couple of days? . . .' So...

  A magical book for Christmas, written in perfect, heartfelt rhyme by Julia Donaldson, bestselling creator of Zog and Superwor...

'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successfu...

'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors . . . In thi...

Bison once ranged across the Great Plains of North America in vast herds - early eighteenth century explorers described them as 'innumerable' - and...

The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatu...

The Bears of Grand Teton is the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, and their interactions with people in Grand Teton National...

Maurice Hornocker is recognized worldwide as the first scientist to unravel the secrets of America's most enigmatic predator—the mountain lion. A s...

A wonderfully illustrated guide to the natural history of the world’s batsBats are the second-largest order of mammals and inhabit almost every cor...

From the Alaskan wilderness to the Florida Keys, Stan Tekiela has spent 30 years in pursuit of deer, elk and moose in order to study and to photogr...

An account of the arduous journey the Arctic caribou undertake to give birth to their young.

Although rarely seen in the wild, the otter is admired for its playful character and graceful aquatic agility, which were established in the popula...

The bears of the world—from the polar bears of the Arctic to the Andean bear of South America—are among the most studied and loved of all wild crea...

How did a random batch of chimpanzees come to populate a small island in Tanzania where apes had never lived before? Combining information gathered...

While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior in which the matriarch lifted her foot a...

In The Bear Doesn’t Know, Paul Schullery—honored naturalist, storyteller, and former Yellowstone ranger—has given us a bear-lover’s book of wonders...

When a farmer on Exmoor found a frightened and badly injured red deer calf hanging by the leg from a barbed wire fence, he knew there was only one ...

The first-person accounts in Taken by Bear in Glacier National Park provide a you-are-there perspective on human and grizzly bear encounters since ...

Offers insights into the social and cultural implications of humans’ relationships with rats and the natural world.   Apart from the occasional pe...

Praise for the first edition: "Rarely does one encounter scientific writing that is at the same time authoritative, full of well-documented data, a...

A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt is the first comprehensive field guide to every mammal species recorded in contemporary Egypt, from gazelle t...

‘Through this extraordinary selection of photographs and accompanying text,we follow elephants on their journey from Ancient Rome to Coney Island a...

From the massive moose to the miniscule mole, 68 species of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan mammals are described in vivid detail by mammalogist ...

Professional naturalist, wildlife photographer and author Stan Tekiela explores some of North America's most desolate areas, pursuing smart, powerf...

The best-selling field guide that "sets new standards" (New Scientist) and "makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States...and Can...

Masked bandits of the night, raiders of farm crops and rubbish bins, raccoons are notorious for their indifference to human property and propriety,...

The contributors to this volume have accomplished a breakthrough in our ability to collect data on ocean-dwelling mammals. In the first large-scale...

Practical and portable, this is the ultimate field guide to the world's cetaceans. This outstanding new field guide to whales, dolphins and porpoi...

Wolves: A Falcon Field Guide presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible information on this most feared yet misunderstood predator....

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 pur...

Falcon Field Guides are full-color, visually appealing, easily packable guides for identifying animals and learning about nature.

Out of Siberia, across the narrow Bering Strait, from Alaska down into central North America, following ever widening pockets in the glaciers, came...