A Handbook of New Guinea's Marsupials and Monotremes

Have you ever seen a string bag decorated with jaw bones or bits of fur and wondered what animal they came from? Or seen animals offered for sale, live or dead, cooked or uncooked, in local markets and wondered what they were? This book may help you to identify local fauna that you may see when you travel around New Guinea and the islands of eastern Indonesia. Here are descriptions or all the native marsupial and monotreme animals with an account of their way of life together with suggestions for further reading and notes on their care in captivity.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Papua New Guinea Press
Published: 06/05/2011
ISBN: 9789980945129
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.34d