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Mammals of the Southwest Mountains and Mesas
George Olin and Edward Bierly
The desert Southwest hides its mammals in sky-island mountains and desert islands of green. George Olin explains its life zones and the way peaks act as wildlife reservoirs above the arid mesas, introducing the animals that live there. Readable, well-illustrated natural history of a dramatic land. Explore the creatures of canyon, mesa, and mountain.
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61 chapters
- 1MAMMALS of the southwest MOUNTAINS and MESAS
- 2ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 3CONTENTS
- 4Notes
- 5INTRODUCTION
- 6Geographic Limitations
- 7Westward Ho
- 8Mountains as Wildlife Reservoirs
- 9Desert “Islands”
- 10Life Zones
- 11Man and Wilderness
- 12Classification of Animals
- 13HOOFED ANIMALS Artiodactyla (even-toed hoofed animals)
- 14Bighorn (mountain sheep) Ovis canadensis (Latin: a sheep from Canada)
- 15Pronghorn (antelope) Antilocapra americana (Latin: antelope and goat, American)
- 16Bison (buffalo) Bison bison (Teutonic name given to this animal)
- 17Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus (Greek: odous, tooth and koilus, hollow. Greek: hemionus, mule)
- 18White-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus (Greek: odous, tooth and koilus, hollow. Latin: of Virginia)
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