Library Journal09/15/2014
This clear and concise guide offers sections on creatures of the African jungles, plains, and waterways; Asian forests; warm oceans; North America; and the Poles. Within those sections the material is laid out animal by animal, with information on the communication habits of, for example, the gorilla, lion, African elephant, plains zebra, black rhinoceros, giraffe, ostrich, Nile crocodile, giant panda, peacock, bottlenose dolphin, gray wolf, bald eagle, polar bear, and Adélie penguin. The book opens with a discussion of zoos, for Benyus (A Field Guide to Wildlife; Northwoods Wildlife) is a proponent of well-managed and carefully thought-out facilities as a means of animal preservation while the fragile earth is slowly yet carefully brought back from the brink of ruin.
