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Mammals of British Columbia
Identify and learn about 125 terrestrial and marine mammals of British Columbia with this colorful field guide. Detailed physical descriptions of the mammals accompany fascinating life-history information. Tracks and up-to-date range maps are included.
296 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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June 13, 2023
I picked this book up after Tena and I watched a TV show with a moose in it. One of us asked, “Do female moose have antlers?” and neither knew the answer (only males have antlers).
This book is fun to read. It gives good descriptions of the animals themselves, their ranges, habitat, food sources, dens and denning, and reproduction, accompanied by maps, colored drawings, and photographs. It also helps you distinguish similar species from one another. The authors include many bits of trivia as well, e.g., an individual Little Brown Bat can consume 900 insects per hour during its nighttime forays.
There are 125 mammals in British Columbia, comprising ¾ of the species found in Canada, and 24 of B.C.’s mammals are found nowhere else in Canada. B.C. is a large place – 920,000 square kilometers – with plenty of forests, rivers, lakes, mountains, plains, and even a small pocket desert for critters to roam around in.
I’ve seen many mammals in my suburban community of Coquitlam, and many more while driving around our province. This will be a good book to keep in the glove compartment while we’re out and about.
You can get some of this information on the internet, but you wouldn’t get all of this, in this detail, in any one site. Similar good books include Hatler, Nagordsen & Beal (2008) Carnivores of British Columbia, and Canning & Canning (2013) The New B.C. Roadside Naturalist: A Guide to Nature along B.C. Highways.
This book is fun to read. It gives good descriptions of the animals themselves, their ranges, habitat, food sources, dens and denning, and reproduction, accompanied by maps, colored drawings, and photographs. It also helps you distinguish similar species from one another. The authors include many bits of trivia as well, e.g., an individual Little Brown Bat can consume 900 insects per hour during its nighttime forays.
There are 125 mammals in British Columbia, comprising ¾ of the species found in Canada, and 24 of B.C.’s mammals are found nowhere else in Canada. B.C. is a large place – 920,000 square kilometers – with plenty of forests, rivers, lakes, mountains, plains, and even a small pocket desert for critters to roam around in.
I’ve seen many mammals in my suburban community of Coquitlam, and many more while driving around our province. This will be a good book to keep in the glove compartment while we’re out and about.
You can get some of this information on the internet, but you wouldn’t get all of this, in this detail, in any one site. Similar good books include Hatler, Nagordsen & Beal (2008) Carnivores of British Columbia, and Canning & Canning (2013) The New B.C. Roadside Naturalist: A Guide to Nature along B.C. Highways.
July 12, 2024
Great illustrations, very informative. I will need to find an updated version if I can; the one I read is from 2001, and some info is out of date.
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