The Mammals of Australia

By Steve Van Dyck and Ronald Strahan

Hard cover with dust jacket. 887 pages. approx. 267mm X 195mm. 3rd Edition (2008). APN / ISBN 9781877069253.
RRP $125.00

The Big Book of Mammals

The Mammals of Australia provides an account of every species of native mammal known to have existed in Australia since European settlement. 389 species in total. Beautifully illustrated with full-colour photographs, each species account includes a detailed description of the animal and its behaviour, a distribution map and a fact box that gives size, identification features, synonyms and alternative common names, subspecies, conservation status, and abundance.

The third edition of this historic publication includes an additional 91 species accounts -- including, for the first time, all the whales and dolphins that occur in Australian territorial waters -- along with more than 200 new photographs. All species accounts from the previous edition have been revised and updated where necessary, and all maps have been individually updated by species authors, then reviewed by a panel of experts to most accurately reflect current distributions.

The book has been written by more than 240 authors from many years of intensive research; all acknowledged experts who have worked in the field with the species they describe.