Mountain Mammals of the World: A Photographic Guide and a Global Compendium of Mountain Mammals | From one of India’s Foremost Conservationists (Hardcover)

There are several books available on the wildlife of different countries and continents, of animal and bird species, even of habitats and ecotypes such as the rainforests, wetlands and deserts. However, one does not find a comprehensive work on the larger mountain mammals of the world. In this book, M.K. Ranjitsinh, who has been one of the foremost conservationists and spearheaded several programmes for the protection of wildlife, brings alive the world of mammals with his insightful writing. With breathtaking photographs and maps to show the distribution of each species―their status, behaviour, ecology and other aspects, Mountain Mammals of the World is a mammoth compendium of fifty-eight species and a total of 119 mountain mammal taxa of the world, making it a def initive guide to understanding the most spectacular animals on earth, against the backdrop of some of the world’s most splendid scenery.