The Life Of Mammals

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: BBC Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 320 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Published in conjunction with a ten-part television series that will air on the Discovery Channel, The Life of Mammals brings us nose-to-nose with mammals in all of their beauty and immense variety. Renowned naturalist, writer, and filmmaker David Attenborough treks across every continent and kind of terrain to introduce us to such unusual and evolutionarily successful creatures as the Patagonian opossum, the Canadian pygmy shrew, the Alpine marmot, and the Malaysian sun bear. We meet slow-moving, algae-covered sloths. We enter a pack of African wild dogs, seeing how their division of labor enables them to provide protection and food to pups, mothers, and old dogs. We learn about the navigation systems of bats and find out why Borneos colugo is a superior glider to a flying squirrel. Along the way, Attenborough considers how evolution has shaped mammalian habits, leading herbivorous sea cows to take to the water and humans to commence agriculture.Containing more than 200 color photographs, this is a book that will gratify anyone intrigued by the natural world and the animals that inhabit it.

ISBN: 9780563534235