Porcupines - The Animal Answer Guide

Uldis Roze is professor emeritus at Queens College in New York City. He is a contributor to Natural History magazine and is the author of The North American Porcupine.

About the author

Uldis Roze is professor emeritus at Queens College in New York City. He is a contributor to Natural History magazine and is the author of The North American Porcupine.

Summary

Roze highlights the conservation issues that surround some porcupine species, such as the thin-spine porcupine of Brazil, which is so rare that it was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in the 1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Uldis Roze, Uldis (Professor Emeritus Roze, Roze Uldis
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9781421407357
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0735-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist; Animal Answer Guides (Hardcove; The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist; Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; NATURE / Animals / Mammals, Wildlife: mammals, Wildlife: mammals: general interest, Erethizon;Hystrix;Coendou;Chaetomys;quills