America's Neighborhood Bats: Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them - Softcover

Tuttle, Merlin D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292712804 ISBN 13: 9780292712805

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2005

Synopsis

Since its first publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this second revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-date bat facts, including a wealth of new information on bat house design and current threats to bat survival.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Since its publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-date bat facts, including a wealth of new information on attracting bats and building bat houses and a revamped key to the identification of common North American species. The easy-to-understand text, clear illustrations, and spectacular color photographs make this the perfect bat book for the general reader, as well as an invaluable resource for professionals who field questions from the public. Those who provide advice at health and animal control departments, museums, zoos, and nature centers will find it especially useful.

About the Author:

MERLIN D. TUTTLE, an internationally recognized authority who has devoted his life to studying bats and to educating the public about them, is President and Founder of Bat Conservation International in Austin, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0292712804
• ISBN 13: 9780292712805
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 112