This international bestseller that changed the way we look at wolves “opens new horizons in understanding animal nature and intelligence” (Newsday).
In 1948, Farley Mowat landed in the far north of Manitoba, Canada, a young biologist sent to investigate the region’s dwindling population of caribou. Many people thought that the caribous’ conspicuous decline had been caused by the tundra’s most notorious...

Presents an overview of mammals, including their history, various kinds, physical characteristics, behavior, and endangered and extinct species.

"An encyclopedia of mammals--including profiles and explanation of what mammals are--for early readers"--

Studies mammals, why they have fur, how they use their senses, how they move, what they eat, how they care for their babies, and other related topics.

Presents general information about mammals, looking at how much mammals can differ, what they have in common, where they can be found, how they reproduce, and how humans are among the most successful mammal species.

Thoroughly Revised and updated, Mammals of Colorado, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference on the 9 orders and 128 species of Colorado's recent native fauna, detailing each species' description, habitat, distribution, population ecology, diet and foraging, predators and parasites, behavior, reproduction and development, and population status. An introductory Chapter on Colorado's environments, a discussion of the development of the fauna over...