num_pages: 374
description: Oftentimes when we glimpse an animal in the wild we have no idea what weve seen. We want to know and field guides are an ideal aid for identification. But when we want to know more about the lives of these animalstheir natural histories their place in the larger ecological community and where to look for them in the futurewe can turn to Behavior of North American Mammals . This exciting addition to the Peterson Reference Guide series is highly readable and full of fascinating facts. For example when an opossum plays dead it isn't opossums actually do enter a catatonic deathlike state. Armadillos sequester air in their guts blow up to twice their normal volume and paddle across the water. And beavers stockpile food for winter by catching it in beneath a raft of branches which gets frozen in place and keeps them well supplied until spring. A guide not to identifying mammals but to understanding what they do Behavior of North American Mammals provides detailed information on more than 70 species of mammals and includes illuminating and attractive photographs and drawings. Comprehensive authoritative and accessible the book includes information on daily and seasonal activity food and foraging home range and habitat communication courtship and mating development and dispersal of young interactions with their own species and interactions with other species. 
language: English
title: Peterson Reference Guide To The Behavior Of North American Mammals
publisher: Mariner Books