Badger (The New Naturalist Library)

Roper, Timothy J.

ISBN 10: 0007320418 / ISBN 13: 9780007320417

Published by Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Badger (The New Naturalist Library)
• Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007320418
• ISBN 13: 9780007320417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 16.51W x 22.86H x 3.18D centimeters 16.51 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 3.18 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1021 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History

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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.