The animal kingdom
Subtitle: the strange and wonderful ways of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects; a new and authentic natural history of the wildlife of the world
By: [by] George G. Goodwin [and others]  Frederick Drimmer, editor-in-chief.
Contributors: Goodwin, George Gilbert.; Drimmer, Frederick.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2062
Subjects: Zoology; Animal behavior
Description: The Animal Kingdom is an epochal work in the field of natural history. Written by seven eminent naturalists on the staffs of the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Zoological Society, it has been four years in preparation, and comprises over two thousand pages and six hunded thousand words of authentic and interesting information about the wildlife of the world. It is far and away the most complete, authoritative, and up-to-date natural history in the English language today. The Animal Kindom will supply you with the knowledge you need if you are to understand the animals that share the world in which you live. Based on the most recent research and investigation, this great work explains simply and colorfully the intimate lives of wild animals, both common and exotic, of all lands--not only the mammals, but the birds, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, insects and other invertebrates. The writers tell you how you can recognize each important animal, where it lives, its habits, courtship, family life, how it raises its young, how it combats enemies and gets its food, and a wealth of other fascinating information--in short, the animal's natural history.
Notes: Issued in case.
Table of contents: title: v.1. Mammals.; title: v.2. Mammals. Birds. Amphibians and reptiles.; title: v.3. Fishes. Insects and other invertebrates.