Product Description

This title looks at a variety of lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cheetahs, and pumas, describes their behavior, characteristics, and distribution, and looks at the forces threatening their extinction.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2729012 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From School Library Journal
YA-A broad, comprehensive overview of the world's wild felines. The first half of the book covers the animals' anatomy, way of life, and interaction with humans. The second half is a species-by-species look at the specific cats. A map and a description indicates where they can be found. The author's ecological concerns are evident throughout. The full-color photographs are detailed and intriguing and amount to perhaps a third of the book. Appendixes list conservationist groups and the taxonomy of the species and subspecies. The pages are almost of plate quality. A compact volume that contains a wealth of information for reports.
Claudia Moore, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
David Alderton is a noted writer on the living world. He is active internationally in conservation matters, especially CITES and its work on the protection of the world's threatened species.

Customer Reviews

Very readable and very detailed, a biologist's dream
Anything you might want to know about wild cats large or small is probably in this book. It does get a little technical occasionally, but you can't discuss things like how cats' eyes work without using a few tecnical terms. Both the writing and the photograpy are of the highest quality, and you will find interesting information and many quality shots of cats you didn't even know existed.

Future zoologist- to work with big cats
This book is wonderful! It is incredibly informative, but contrary to what one might assume about a reference book, it is not at all boring or monotonous. The information is presented along with great pictures and other interesting facts. I would suggest buying the hardcover edition, because this is a book that you will surely want to keep for a long time. I will be going to college this fall, and I am sure I will get a lot of use out of this.

An excellant guide to wild cats of the world
It was by David Alderton, he has written many other books, for example, Turtles and Tortoises of the world and Crocodiles and Alliggators of the world. This book lists and explanins every wild cat in the world. It explains every living wild cat in the world. I think it is an useful book on this subject. This book includes the history and evolution of the wild cats.You have to read and see what I mean.