Encyclopedia of North American Mammals: An Essential Guide to Mammals of North America

by Amy-Jane Beer, Pat Morris

Lets young readers take a journey through swamps, ocean shores, and rocky hillsides without leaving home, vividly describing and illustrating the different mammals that can be found throughout the continent.

Genres: Animals

288 pages, Hardcover

First published August 19, 2004

About the author

Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist and writer. She has written more than 30 books about science and natural history including Cool Nature and The A-Z of Wildlife Watching. She has also edited a number of wildlife publications including Animals, Animals, Animals and Wildlife World magazine.
The natural sciences have been a lifelong fascination for her, and her childhood enthusiasm was formalised at Royal Holloway University of London, where she graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Biology, then spent years squinting down a microscope and fretting over the welfare of a tank full of sea urchin larvae to earn a PhD.

Reviews

[Autumn Kearney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Encyclopedia of North American mammals. This book contains the following information: Bobcat -- Lynx -- Puma -- Gray wolf -- Coyote -- Red fox -- Swift fox -- Arctic fox -- Polart bear -- American black bear -- Brown/grizzly bear -- Common raccoon -- Least weasel -- Stoat -- American marten -- American mink -- Wolverine -- North American river otter -- Sea otter -- American badger -- Striped skunk -- Northern fur seal -- California sea lion -- Walrus -- Northern elephant seal -- Harbor seal -- Harp seal -- West Indian manatee -- Killer whale/orca -- Common dolphin -- Bottlenose dolphin -- Harbor porpoise -- Beluga -- Narwhal -- Sperm whale -- Northern bottlenose whale -- Gray whale -- Blue whale -- Humpback whale -- Minke whale -- Mustang -- Collared peccary -- Moose -- Reindeer/caribou -- Elk -- Mule deer -- American bison -- American bighorn sheep -- Muskox -- Mountain goat -- Pronghorn -- Ord's kangaroo rat -- Northern pocket gopher -- American beaver -- Gray squirrel -- Eastern chipmunk -- Woodchuck -- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel -- Black-tailed prairie dog -- Southern flying squirrel -- House mouse -- Brown rat -- Deer mouse -- Desert wood rat -- Southern red-backed vole -- Muskrat -- North americanporcupine -- Snowshoe hare -- Black-tailed jackrabbit -- Arctic hare -- Eastern cottontail -- American pika -- American short-tailed shrew -- American water shrew -- Star-nosed mole -- Nine-banded armadillo -- Mexican free-tailed bat -- Little brown bat -- Virginia opossum -- Glossary -- Further reading/web sites -- Index

It’s so difficult for me to choose a favorite. They are all so precious.