In honor of Superb Owl Sunday 2019, I can’t think of a more appropriate new book to bring to everyone’s attention than James Duncan’s lavishly illustrated “Owls of the World.”
Owls of the World
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Walker’s Mammals of the World
When the two volume sixth edition of Walker’s Mammals of the World was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999, its highly respected eponymous author, Ernest P. Walker, had been dead for thirty years. Now, nineteen years later, Ronald P. Nowak continues Walker’s legacy with the publication of this new, extensively updated volume.
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
It’s really only been not much more than a century since “great stinks” caused tremendous disruptions of daily life across major world cities. Lack of sufficient public sanitation, open sewers, abattoirs, and a host of other elements of those times would combine with seasonal weather patterns and other phenomena to produce a level of stench that could not only cause people to alter the activities, they could – and in some cases did – literally bring the activities of governments to a halt.
Mountain Lions of the Black Hills
I can’t say that reading Professor Jenks’ book will improve your Cougar or Not skills, but it will present you with a wealth of information regarding the dynamics of the diet, nutrition, diseases, behavior, genetics, prey base, and a number of other important topics pertaining to these much misunderstood and increasingly imperiled animals.