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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100618883452

ISBN-139780618883455

eBay Product ID (ePID)99387916

Product Key Features

Book TitlePeterson Reference Guide to the Behavior of North American Mammals

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAnimals / Mammals, Birdwatching Guides, Animals / Birds

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenreNature

AuthorMark Elbroch, Kurt Rinehart

Book SeriesPeterson Reference Guides

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight42.5 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-016052

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal599.15097

Table Of ContentContents How to Use This Book4 SPECIES ACCOUNTS15 Order Didelphimorphia Family Didelphidae Virginia Opossum16 Order Sirenia Family Trichechidae West Indian Manatee20 Order Cingulata Family Dasypodidae Nine-banded Armadillo25 Order Lagomorpha Family Ochotonidae American Pika31 Family Leporidae Eastern Cottontail and Allies36 Order Soricomorpha Family Soricidae Northern Short-tailed Shrew, with Notes on Water Shrew and Allies43 Family Talpidae Star-nosed Mole and Allies49 Order Chiroptera Family Molossidae Mexican Free-tailed Bat and Allies 53 Order Carnivora Family Felidae Bobcat and Canada Lynx60 Cougar68 Family Canidae Coyote76 Wolf85 Common Gray Fox, with Notes on Kit and Swift Foxes94 Arctic Fox100 Red Fox105 Family Ursidae American Black Bear112 Brown Bear121 Polar Bear129 Family Odobenidae Walrus136 Family Phocidae Northern Elephant Seal141 Family Mustelidae Sea Otter146 North American River Otter152 Wolverine158 Fisher and American Marten163 Weasels and Black-footed Ferret170 American Mink177 American Badger182 Family Mephitidae Striped Skunk, with Notes on Spotted Skunks187 Family Procyonidae Raccoon193 Order Artiodactyla Family Tayassuidae Collared Peccary198 Family Cervidae Moose203 White-tailed Deer and Mule Deer210 Elk222 Family Antilocapridae Pronghorn231 Family Bovidae American Bison237 Mountain Goat244 Bighorn Sheep250 Order Rodentia Family Aplodontiidae Mountain Beaver256 Family Sciuridae Eastern Gray Squirrel, Eastern Fox Squirrel, and Allies260 Red Squirrel and Douglas's Squirrel, with Notes on Flying Squirrels266 Black-tailed Prairie Dog275 Yellow-bellied Marmot and Woodchuck281 Uinta Ground Squirrel and Allies291 Eastern Chipmunk and Allies298 Family Castoridae American Beaver304 Family Heteromyidae Desert Kangaroo Rat and Allies310 Family Cricetidae Meadow Vole and Allies316 Common Muskrat321 Woodrats328 North American Deermouse, with Notes on California Deermouse335 Family Erethizontidae North American Porcupine342 Acknowledgments352 Glossary354 Selected Bibliography357 Index371

SynopsisOftentimes when we glimpse an animal in the wild, we have no idea what we've seen. We want to know, and field guides are an ideal aid for identification. But when we want to know more about the lives of these animals--their natural histories, their place in the larger ecological community, and where to look for them in the future--we can turn to Behavior of North American Mammals . This exciting addition to the Peterson Reference Guide series is highly readable and full of fascinating facts. For example, when an opossum plays dead, it isn't pretending: opossums actually do enter a catatonic deathlike state. Armadillos sequester air in their guts, blow up to twice their normal volume, and paddle across the water. And beavers stockpile food for winter by catching it in beneath a raft of branches, which gets frozen in place and keeps them well supplied until spring. A guide not to identifying mammals, but to understanding what they do, Behavior of North American Mammals provides detailed information on more than 70 species of mammals and includes illuminating and attractive photographs and drawings. Comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, the book includes information on daily and seasonal activity, food and foraging, home range and habitat, communication, courtship and mating, development and dispersal of young, interactions with their own species, and interactions with other species.

LC Classification NumberQL739.3.E43 2011