| Mammals of Great Smoky Mountains Nat'l Park First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Linzey, Donald W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0939923483 ISBN-13: 9780939923489 Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2001 Annotation: This book brings together the most current information available about the mammals of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- a popular tourist destination that some have called the rooftop of eastern North America. Written in accessible language and illustrated throughout with color photographs, it is a work that both the casual reader and the serious student of zoology will appreciate. Home to large, readily visible mammals, such as black bears and white-tailed deer, as well as secretive, seldom-seen animals, such as shrews, moles, and mice, the park is one of the country's most fascinating wildlife havens. Donald W. Linzey describes the seventy species of mammals that now occur -- or have recently occurred in the park. Included for each animal is succinct information about its size, external appearance, behavior, numbers, habitat, and ecology. Also included are a checklist of the mammals and a list of the localities referred to in the text. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Mammals - Nature | Reference - Travel | Parks & Campgrounds |
| Dewey: 599.097 |
| LCCN: 94039382 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.02" W x 8.99" (0.66 lbs) 150 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The deer and the bear so popular with travelers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are but two of the plentiful mammals found in the varied habitats of this important national preserve. Alicia V. and Donald W. Linzey, husband-and-wife zoological team at the University of South Alabama, here combine their own experience and research in the Park with notes taken over a thirty-year period by naturalist Arthur Stupka to describe sixty-five species of present and former residents. Writing for laymen and biologists alike, the authors tell of distribution, habitat, food habits, predation, and reproductive habits of mammals ranging from the pigmy shrew to the conspicuous black bear. Among photographs accompanying this first book on the subject the reader will find mammals both common and rare. Donald W. Linzey, a wildlife biologist and ecologist, is professor of biology at Wytheville Community College in Wytheville, Virginia. He is an authority on the mammals of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its environs. |