Descriptions of 380 species include size, weight, color, markings, number of teeth, habitat, habits, and comparisons with similar species. Superb color illustrations and line drawings show 230 animals. Range maps as well as photos of skulls and drawings of animal tracks, dens, nests, and burrows round out the wealth of information given in "the best general guide to all of North America" (Peter Warshall, Whole Earth Review).
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William H. Burt is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: A Field Guide to Mammals
Richard Philip Grossenheider is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson First Guides to Mammals of North America.
Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world"s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson Field Guides® are credited with helping to set the stage for the environmental movement.
Richard Philip Grossenheider is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson First Guides to Mammals of North America.
Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world"s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson Field Guides® are credited with helping to set the stage for the environmental movement.
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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Field guide,
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Mammals: North America north of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides) (Paperback)
Peterson's field guide to mammals is one of my standard references as a mammology student. I constantly use the range maps,color identification plates, and animal descriptions. The book provides you with good identification characteristics indicated by arrows on the illustrations of each animal and a brief life history of every species north of the border. There are skull plates at the back of the book that are good for comparing different families but do not include every species and in some cases are poor positions to see defining attributes. The color plates for the most part have good illustrations but a few look hoaky like the Mountain Lion. Nevertheless, they all still provide good size comparisons and coloration of the animals. Consistant with other Peterson guides.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Mammals: North America north of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides) (Paperback)
This is a good guide to be used in conjunction with the Kays and Wilson guide (a much more recent and complete book). It has not been updated in quite some time, but the information should not be dismissed. It works, but should not be your only mammal field guide. You will be disappointed if it is.
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DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK (Get the new 4th edition instead!),
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Mammals: North America north of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides) (Paperback)
There's a new edition of this book (Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America: Fourth Edition (Peterson Field Guide Series)), and it's fantastic! This third edition, however, is terribly outdated and not at all worth buying anymore. Buy the 4th edition of the book, completely redone by Fiona Reid. The new one has new color plates, more complete and updated natural history info, and colored range maps interspersed within the species accounts, instead of at the back of the book. It's the book I require of my students in the Mammalogy lab I teach at a university.
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YOUNG are born premature in most kinds and complete their development in fur-lined pouch (marsupium) on belly of female. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other pocket mice, blunt tragus, tail membrane furred, broad front feet, destroys many insects, indistinct groove, spinelike hairs, tail bicolored, high mts, bicolored tail, overhanging snout, interfemoral membrane, tail crested, pocket mouse, tail swollen, display territorial behavior, other voles, tail bordered, freetail bat, ears blackish, external cheek pouches, dental formulae, similar species, kangaroo mouse, stripes indistinct Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Born April, Pacific Coast, Map Text, Born June, Little Brown, Atlantic Coast, Mountain Phenacomys, Far North, Hudson Bay, Mule Deer, Red Fox, Blacktail Jackrabbit, Deer Mouse, Eastern Cottontail, Red Squirrel, Snowshoe Hare, Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel, Black Bear, Boreal Redback Vole, Brush Mouse, Least Chipmunk, Longtail Vole, Old World, Pygmy Mouse, San Diego New!
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YOUNG are born premature in most kinds and complete their development in fur-lined pouch (marsupium) on belly of female. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other pocket mice, blunt tragus, tail membrane furred, broad front feet, destroys many insects, indistinct groove, spinelike hairs, tail bicolored, high mts, bicolored tail, overhanging snout, interfemoral membrane, tail crested, pocket mouse, tail swollen, display territorial behavior, other voles, tail bordered, freetail bat, ears blackish, external cheek pouches, dental formulae, similar species, kangaroo mouse, stripes indistinct Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Born April, Pacific Coast, Map Text, Born June, Little Brown, Atlantic Coast, Mountain Phenacomys, Far North, Hudson Bay, Mule Deer, Red Fox, Blacktail Jackrabbit, Deer Mouse, Eastern Cottontail, Red Squirrel, Snowshoe Hare, Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel, Black Bear, Boreal Redback Vole, Brush Mouse, Least Chipmunk, Longtail Vole, Old World, Pygmy Mouse, San Diego New!
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- The Red Fox by Stephen Harris on page 140, and page 141
- Rats and Mice (My Pet) by Honor Head on page 242, and page 243
- Mammals of the Great Lakes Region (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by William H. Burt in Back Matter
- A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe by Guy Mountfort in Front Matter
- Glacier National Park (Symbols of Freedom) by M.C. Hall in Back Matter
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