BADGER (THE NEW NATURALIST)

TIMOTHY J. ROPER

ISBN 10: 0007320418 / ISBN 13: 9780007320417

Published by COLLINS, 2010

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Green Cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 225 x 155 mm approx. xii + 386 pp + 2 pp listing books in series. 232 figs. being colour photos. line figs and statistical tables/ graphs. First Edition 2010 of No 114 in series. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. As New/ Near Fine (Book- no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- negligible shelf rubbing to extremities, non price clipped - cover £50. No notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BADGER (THE NEW NATURALIST)
• Publisher: COLLINS
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007320418
• ISBN 13: 9780007320417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: ROBERT GILMOUR (COVER ARTWORK)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science and Natural History
  • Reference

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Synopsis

The badger is a large mammal, common but very rarely seen in Britain, which has become one of Britain's best-loved animals. It is a very social animal, living in large family groups and maintaining large territories. It is its nocturnal lifestyle that make it so difficult to see. This new volume in the New Naturalist series reveals the extraordinary complex life style that allows this secretive animal to live in even the most built-up areas of Britain. It also reveals the facts behind the current role of badgers in transmitting tuberculosis to cattle, a theory that has resulted in some of the most intense wildlife investigation in the past ten years.

About the Author

Prof Timothy J. Roper has been studying aspects of badger social and territorial behaviour for over twenty years. He has worked on projects in the UK (Sussex and Gloucestershire), Luxembourg and Belgium. He has been a Specialist Scientific Advisor to the House of Commons Agriculture Select Committee and contributed to a report by the Government Chief Scientific Advisor on bovine tuberculosis in badgers and cattle in 2007. Apart from trying to get his three young children interested in nature, music and books, his main avocations are food, wine, opera and American literature.