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Title: The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives by Mauricio Anton, Alan Turner, F. Clark Howell ISBN: 0-231-10229-1 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (17 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a "Light Read" but GREAT insight into paleontology
Comment: My 12 year old son, who is fascinated by the large cats, saw this book in a bookstore and wanted it. I waited for a year or so before I bought it because it IS college level reading. We thoroughly enjoyed it. There are great drawings of fossil skeletons & extant animal skeletons. Once you have waded past the first 2 chapters and their latin terms are familiar, the rest was terrific. The authors do a fine job of telling the reader what a scholar is looking for in understanding an organism's capabilities and how to see in a living mammal the same capabilities expressed. The bio-mechanics are explained non-mathematically. The extinct species are discussed in terms of their relationship to the probable biosphere in which they lived. The book could use some more graphics to illustrate the "family-tree" of the large cats and where & when they lived in terms of geography, likely environment, & timeline. This material is in the text and in some graphics, but because we all have been sensitized by the great graphics in "National Geographic" & on TV we expect them to be in all books. I am an engineer and found this a fascinating journey into another arena of scholarship, without it being overwhelming.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Most Excellent Read
Comment: I have long been interested about large cat (especially jaguars), and have often wondered about their evolution and early relatives. However, I had searched through every library in my county with no success. When I found this book, it was like a godsend. With superb illustrations and an excess of information, this has potential to be the definitive resource on prehistoric cats. Every big cat enthusiast should buy this book. This has become one of my second bibles.
Rating: 5
Summary: a must read
Comment: This is an outstanding book, hands down the best book of its kind I've seen. The text is very well organized and readable, both for the layperson and those with science backgrounds. It goes into enough detail to be comprehensive, yet in such a way as to make the material easily understandable and enjoyably read.
The illustrations are what really makes this book stand out above the crowd: they are always well drawn and detailed and pretty to look at, both functional and artistic. It really brings the subject matter to life, sort of like if you were able to examine the museum collection yourself, and then go on a prehistoric safari. If you have any more than a passing interest in cat biology, natural history, or paleontology, this book is a definite must have.
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Title: Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi Agusti, Mauricio Anton ISBN: 0231116403 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $41.50 |
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Title: Ice Age Mammals of North America by Ian Lange, illustrator Dorothy S. Norton ISBN: 0878424032 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Wild Cats of the World by Melvin E. Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist ISBN: 0226779998 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Prehistoric America: A Journey Through the Ice Age and Beyond by Miles Barton, Ian Gray, Adam White, Nigel Bean, Stephen Dunleavy ISBN: 0300098197 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Natural History of the Wild Cats by Andrew Kitchener ISBN: 0801484987 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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