The updated edition, this is an excellent field guide to the mammals of Great Britain and Ireland beginning with an overview and history, biology and life cycle. Organised by Terrestrial Mammals like squirrels and dormice, beavers, hedgehogs and bats, wild cats and foxes, deer, pigs and wild boar, even reindeer and introduced ephemerals like the Siberian chipmunk, striped skunk and Asian short-clawed otter. In Marine Mammals there are seals, whales, dolphins, beluga and narwhal, the tusked males of which are unmistakable but there have been no confirmed sightings in Britain since 1949. For each entry there are details of length, height, blow, dive sequence, behaviour, weight, breathing behaviour, habitat, population and status, food and signs including tracks, droppings and nests and coloured distribution map. 126 mammal species recorded, 500 superb colour photos. Stunning colour photography in this heavyweight large softback, 328pp.
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