Mammals of New Guinea

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Comstock/Cornell, 1995 - Nature - 568 pages
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Stepping into the New Guinea rainforest is like entering a time machine, according to Tim Flannery. There, animals unknown anywhere else except as fossils continue to flourish within scarcely disturbed ecological communities. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Flannery presents the most complete information available about the natural history and systematics of New Guinea's unique mammals. For this revised edition, the author has expanded and completely revised his acclaimed handbook on the natural history and systematics of New Guinea's unique mammals.

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Contents

Introduction
13
Geology
16
Vegetation
26
Copyright

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Mammals of New Guinea
Tim Fridtjof Flannery
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About the author (1995)

TIM FLANNERY has written many award-winning books, including The Weather Makers, which reached #1 in Canada, An Explorer's Notebook, Now or Never and Here on Earth. He is the National Geographic Society's Australasian representative and a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. In January 2007, he was named Australian of the Year and in 2011, he became Australia's first climate commissioner. Visit him online at theweathermakers.org.

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TitleMammals of New Guinea
A Comstock Bk
Jossey-Bass Education
AuthorTim Fridtjof Flannery
Edition2, illustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherComstock/Cornell, 1995
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedAug 7, 2009
ISBN0801431492, 9780801431494
Length568 pages
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