Walker's vision, the text smoothly combines in-depth scholarship with a popular, readable style to preserve and enhance what the Washington Post called a "landmark of zoological literature."

Valuable guide for general readers and an important reference for professionals.

Ronald M. Nowak celebrates these fascinating mammals in Walker's Carnivores of the World. This comprehensive guide, featuring 225 illustrations, covers the world's eight terrestrial families of carnivores.

Recently extinct genera, such as the giant lemurs of Madagascar, are covered in full Text summaries present well-documented descriptions of the physical characteristics and living habits of primates in every part of the world.

This comprehensive reference work, now in its fifth edition, covers more than 1,100 genera of mammals, including one hundred that did not appear in previous editions, and lists more than 4,000 species.--From publisher description.

This comprehensive guide to the order is for experts and enthusiasts alike.

Authoritative and engaging, this volume from the Walker's Mammals series focuses on marsupials, pouched animals whose unusual method of reproduction—between egg laying and placental birth—places them in a unique category among mammals.