Since its first publication in 1964, Walker's Mammals of the World has become a favorite guide to the natural world for general readers and professionals alike. This new Walker's volume is a completely revised and updated compendium of information on five of the earliest clades to diverge from ancient mammal stock. Uniquely comprehensive in inimitable Walker's style, it incorporates a full account of every genus that lived in the past 5,000 years. Every named species of each genus is listed in systematic order and accompanied by detailed descriptions of past and present range.
This new edition includes
500+ full-color images throughout'a first for any Walker's volume!
citations to more than 2,200 new references
extensive bioconservation data, with discussion of every species in an IUCN Red List threatened category
This volume's thorough updates reflect 20 years of advances in our knowledge of taxonomy, ecology, behavior, life history, and conservation. Substantive changes to 100% of previously existing generic accounts, plus the addition of 17 entirely new generic accounts, double the information in the last edition on the 19 orders covered. The black-and-white illustrations of earlier editions have been replaced by over 500 new color images, including superb photos of live individuals and scientifically prepared paintings of extinct genera.
Remaining true to Ernest P. 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.""
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Class Mammalia 2. Monotremata 3. Didelphimorphia 4. Pacituberculata 5. Microbiotheria 6. Notoryctemorphia 7. Dasyuromorphia 8. Peramelemorphia 9. Diprotodontia 10. Afroscricida 11. Macroscelidea 12. Bibymalagasia 13. Tubulidentata 14. Hyracoidea 15. Proboscidea 16. Sirenia 17. Cingulata 18. Pilosa 19. Scandentia 20. Dermoptera World Distribution of Mammals World Distribution of Mammals World Distribution of Mammals
""The famous Walker's Mammals of the World has been updated... and what an update it is. Rather than the classical two volumes with black-and-white photographs (the last edition is from 1999 and thus almost 20 years old), there is now a single volume with colour photos covering monotremes, marsupials, afrotherians, xenarthrans and sundatherians (ie, Scan-dentia and Dermoptera).""
