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Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide
Uldis Roze
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Description for Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide
Paperback. Roze highlights the conservation issues that surround some porcupine species, such as the thin-spine porcupine of Brazil, which is so rare that it was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in the 1980s. Series: The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist. Num Pages: 240 pages, 92, 60 black & white halftones, 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 253 x 13. Weight in Grams: 506.
Could a porcupine make a good pet? Do they ever stick themselves or other porcupines with their quills? In this latest addition to the "Animal Answer Guide" series, we learn about these mysterious animals' "pincushion defense," along with the following facts: porcupines survive on a diet of leaves, bark, and fruit; quills are actually modified hairs; there are 26 species of porcupines (and counting); old world and new world porcupines have a common ancestor but evolved independently; and, new world males will gather to fight ferociously over a single female. "Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide" presents solid, current science in ... Read more
Could a porcupine make a good pet? Do they ever stick themselves or other porcupines with their quills? In this latest addition to the "Animal Answer Guide" series, we learn about these mysterious animals' "pincushion defense," along with the following facts: porcupines survive on a diet of leaves, bark, and fruit; quills are actually modified hairs; there are 26 species of porcupines (and counting); old world and new world porcupines have a common ancestor but evolved independently; and, new world males will gather to fight ferociously over a single female. "Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide" presents solid, current science in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421407364
SKU
V9781421407364
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Ref
99-1
About Uldis Roze
Uldis Roze is professor emeritus at Queens College in New York City. He is a contributor to Natural History magazine and is the author of The North American Porcupine.
Reviews for Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide
Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide presents solid, current, science of porcupine biology... A good general introduction into the biology of porcupines.
Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report Delightful.
Jason Bittel Slate A fine survey recommended for any serious natural history holding. Midwest Book Review Roze has produced a useful guide to a familiar but often not entirely understood mammal... This ... Read more
Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report Delightful.
Jason Bittel Slate A fine survey recommended for any serious natural history holding. Midwest Book Review Roze has produced a useful guide to a familiar but often not entirely understood mammal... This ... Read more