Find out all about the amazing animals you need to know but never get to see, from the numbat to the zorilla, and everything in between.

Detailed articles cover the history, anatomy, feeding habits, social structure, reproduction, territory, and current status of ninety-five mammals around the world.

Profiles more unfamiliar animals, including the dingiso, the tamandua, and the yellow-throated marten.

Explains the common traits shared by the approximately 5,000 species of mammals living today, and how animals as seemingly unalike as human beings and kangaroos could be related.

Text and photographs present the anatomy, behavior, habitats, and other aspects of wild and domestic cats.

Pull back the curtain on the wide, wide world of mammals! Organized by animal-science reference topics such as anatomy, life cycle, and methods of defense, Mammals lets young readers and browsers discover these hairy animals through full-color photos and concise, factual text.

One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, GORILLAS IN THE MIST is the riveting account of Dian Fossey's thirteen years in a remote African rain forest with the greatest of the great apes. Fossey's extraordinary efforts to ensure the future of the rain forest and its remaining mountain gorillas are captured in her own words and in candid photographs of this fascinating endangered species. As only she could,...

"One night a scientist discovered something surprising in his own backyard : a flying squirrel that glowed bright pink! Follow along on an investigation into flying squirrels -- and other mammals -- that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light"--

How do whales make their hearing better? What do lemurs do to make a point during an argument? Find out in this funny and fast-paced nonfiction picture book about mammal adaptations you've never heard of! In Stink Fights, Earwax, and Other Marvelous Mammal Adaptations, children ages 5 to 8 learn about how bizarre life science can really be through compelling, humorous narrative and science-minded observations.