Book
Otters : ecology, behaviour, and conservation
Record details
- ISBN: 9780198565871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0198565879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xii, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
print - Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Reprinted 2007 (with corrections)"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Otter ecology and its background -- 2. Thirteen otters of the world : some natural history -- 3. Evolutionary relationships, questions and methods of otter ecology -- 4. Habitats -- 5. Groups and loners : social organization -- 6. Scent marking and interactions : social behaviour -- 7. Diet -- 8. Resources : about fish and other prey -- 9. Otters fishing : hunting behaviour and strategies -- 10. Thermo-insulation : a limiting factor -- 11. Populations, recruitment and competition -- 12. Survival and mortality -- 13. Syntheses : challenges to otter survival -- 14. Otters, people and conservation. |
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| Subject: | Otters |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | QL 737 .C25 K785 2007 | 30536570 | General Collection | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Otters : Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation
Studied animal behaviour under Prof. Niko Tinbergen (FRS, Nobel Laureate) at Oxford. Co-founder of the Serengeti Research Institute, Tanzania, where he carried out research over seven years, before returning to Oxford, and later to the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Banchory, Scotland. After becoming Senior Principal Research Officer, he retired as emeritus in 1997. Awarded the scientific medal of the Zoological Society of London and the scientific medal of the British Mammal Society, he obtained a DSc from the University of Aberdeen and was made Honorary Professor, University of Aberdeen in 1998. He has carried out research projects on mammals and birds on all continents, published 6 previous books and some 120 scientific papers. He has studied otters in the field for over 20 years, and published about 40 papers and one previous book on the ecology of otters.
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