Join our four ferret friends as they venture out into the countryside to meet their old buddies, the stoats! Milliford J. Stoat, William Weaselworth, and Efner Effingham give them a most courteous welcome, and Badger learns an important lesson. Enjoy the ferretry!

Publisher description

"A charming and informative anthology of nature through the year." -- cover, p. [4].

Presents an account of these predatory mammals from their characteristics, status and distribution to conservation and management.

Readers are invited to follow the intrepid documentarians, Purdy and Beech, on their hunt for the fearsome Frost Mare and to learn the secret of the stranger whose life little Melly saved in "Four Bronze Sisters."

This musical is constantly in demand for groups anxious to produce the better type of imaginative plays for young people. The play expresses perfectly the mood of the Grahame book, which is a combination of poetry, fantasy and exquisite comedy. The romance of early childhood is celebrated in this adaptation. Scripts includes full stage directions, notes on scenery, illustrations of sets, costume, property and lighting plots.

The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica). It lists 65 species, including native and exotic, wild and feral, living and extinct, residents, vagrants and failed introductions. It describes their history, biology and ecology, and brings together comprehensive and detailed information gathered from widely scattered or previously unpublished sources. The description of each species is arranged under standardised headings for easy reference. Because the only native land-breeding mammals in New Zealand are bats and seals, the great majority of the modern mammal fauna comprises introduced species, whose arrival has had profound effects both for themselves and for the native fauna and flora. The book details changes in numbers and distribution for the native species, and for the arrivals it summarises changes in habitat, diet, numbers and size in comparison with their ancestral stocks, and some of the problems they present to resource managers. For this third edition, the text and references have been completely updated and reorganised into Family chapters. The colour section includes 14 pages of artwork showing all the species described and their main variations, plus two pages of maps.