Life of marsupials (New ed)

With stunning insights, Life of Marsupials explores this unusual group of mammals, covering the extraordinary diversity of forms around the world, in Australia, New Guinea and the Americas.

The author's original text, Life of Marsupials, which was published in 1973, was the first student textbook on marsupials.

In this completely re-written edition, he brings a lifetime's experience and masterly insights into the lives of these fascinating mammals.

Despite separate evolution there are extraordinary similarities in which marsupials have solved the challenges of living in environments such as deserts, alpine snowfields and tropical rainforests.

However, this book also looks at their differences: how some can live on grass and others on leaves; and how some can glide, some can swim and others can hop with extraordinary efficiency.

With stunning colour photography of 39 species the book include topics such as: What makes a marsupial?Reproduction and development; Opossums of America: cousins from a distant time; Carnivorous marsupials: bright-eyed killers of the night; Bandicoots: fast-living opportunists; Pygmy possums and sugar gliders; Life in the trees: koala, greater glider and possums; Wombats: vegetarians of the underworld; Kangaroos: consummate herbivores; Marsupials and people; Written by a leading expert on marsupial biology, Life of Marsupials will be of keen interest to zoologists, mammalogists, wildlife researchers and natural historians.