A season-by-season look at North America's most thrilling predator species.

For use in schools and libraries only. Introduces and identifies fourteen North American land predators, including bears, skunks, and weasels, and offers recommendations for tracking them.

The wildlife of North America is fierce. Birds, snakes, and wild cats—some of the most frightening animals on Earth— dominate different climates in different parts of the continent. Just how scary are they? Find out in this informative, colorful new book!

The wildlife of North America is fierce. Birds, snakes, and wild cats—some of the most frightening animals on Earth— dominate different climates in different parts of the continent. Just how scary are they? Find out in this informative, colorful new book!

Shows and describes the characteristics of cougars, bobcats, lynx, wolves, coyotes, foxes, bears, wolverines, martens, minks, weasels, ferrets, otters, badgers, skunks, and raccoons

The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation." -Wall Street Journal Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands-down. Coyote America is the illuminating five-million-year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epics of our time.

Introduces and identifies fourteen North American land predators, including bears, skunks, and weasels, and offers recommendations for tracking them.

Carnivores provide innumerable ecological benefits and play a unique role in preserving and maintaining ecosystem services and function, but at the same time they can create serious problems for human populations. A key question for conservation biologists and wildlife managers is how to manage the world's carnivore populations to conserve this important natural resource while mitigating harmful impacts on humans. In People and Predators, leading scientists and researchers offer case studies of human-carnivore conflicts in a variety of landscapes, including rural, urban, and political. The book covers a diverse range of taxa, geographic regions, and conflict scenarios, with each chapter dealing with a specific facet of human-carnivore interactions and offering practical, concrete approaches to resolving the conflict under consideration. Chapters provide background on particular problems and describe how challenges have been met or what research or tools are still needed to resolve the conflicts. People and Predators will helps readers to better understand issues of carnivore conservation in the 21st century, and provides practical tools for resolving many of the problems that stand between us and a future in which carnivores fulfill their historic ecological roles.

"Long and sympathetic watching, radio tracking, chemical analysis are all part of this naturalist's ingenious and peaceable arsenal of inquiry into the lives of porcupines."--Scientific American