Mammals of North America illustrates all 462 known mammal species in the United States and Canada--each in beautiful color and accurate detail. With a more up-to-date species list than any other guide, improved facing-page descriptions, easier-to-read distribution maps, updated common and scientific names, and track and scat illustrations, this slim, light, and easy-to-use volume is the must-have source for identifying North American mammals.

Table of Contents

• Artist's credits
• About the Author
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Species Plates
• PLATE 1 Opossum and Armadillo
• PLATE 2 Eastern Sorex
• PLATE 3 Northern Shrews
• PLATE 4 Aquatic Shrews and Skulls
• PLATE 5 Inland Sorex with Skulls
• PLATE 6 Coastal Sorex with Skulls
• PLATE 7 Other Shrews
• PLATE 8 Western Moles
• PLATE 9 Eastern Moles
• PLATE 10 Pikas
• PLATE 11 Western Cottontails
• PLATE 12 Pygmy Rabbits and Short-eared Cottontails
• PLATE 13 Eastern Cottontails
• PLATE 14 Northern Hares
• PLATE 15 Jackrabbits
• PLATE 16 Porcupine and Sewellel
• PLATE 17 Large Aquatic Rodents
• PLATE 18 Marmots
• PLATE 19 Eastern and Tropical Tree Squirrels
• PLATE 20 Western Tree Squirrels
• PLATE 21 Red and Flying Squirrels
• PLATE 22 Prairie Dogs
• PLATE 23 Large, Spotted Ground Squirrels
• PLATE 24 Bushy-tailed, Flecked Ground Squirrels
• PLATE 25 Thin-tailed, Unmarked Ground Squirrels
• PLATE 26 Small, Spotted Ground Squirrels
• PLATE 27 Stripy Ground Squirrels
• PLATE 28 Eastern and Rocky Mountain Chipmunks
• PLATE 29 Southwest Chipmunks
• PLATE 30 Southern California Chipmunks
• PLATE 31 Northwestern Coastal Chipmunks
• PLATE 32 Northwestern Inland Chipmunks
• PLATE 33 Northern Thomomys
• PLATE 34 Cratogeomys and Southern Thomomys
• PLATE 35 Geomys
• PLATE 36 Western Desert Perognathus
• PLATE 37 Great Plains Perognathus
• PLATE 38 Liomys and Spiny Chaetodipus
• PLATE 39 Smooth Chaetodipus
• PLATE 40 Kangaroo Mice and Small Four-toed Kangaroo Rats
• PLATE 41 Large Four-toed Kangaroo Rats
• PLATE 42 Mid-California Five-toed Kangaroo Rats
• PLATE 43 Southern California Five-toed Kangaroo Rats
• PLATE 44 Other Five-toed Kangaroo Rats
• PLATE 45 Jumping Mice
• PLATE 46 Eastern and Central Woodrats
• PLATE 47 Furry-tailed Woodrats
• PLATE 48 Woodrats and Rattus
• PLATE 49 Grasshopper Mice and Oryzomys
• PLATE 50 Central and Eastern Tiny Mice
• PLATE 51 House and Western Tiny Mice
• PLATE 52 Northern Deermice
• PLATE 53 Southeastern Peromyscus and Relatives
• PLATE 54 Far West Peromyscus
• PLATE 55 Peromyscus truei and boylii Groups
• PLATE 56 Sigmodon
• PLATE 57 Arborimus Voles
• PLATE 58 Red-backed Voles
• PLATE 59 Coastal Microtus
• PLATE 60 Other Western Voles
• PLATE 61 Northern Voles
• PLATE 62 Typical Voles
• PLATE 63 Eastern Voles and Bog Lemmings
• PLATE 64 Northern Lemmings
• PLATE 65 Ghost and Leaf-nosed Bats
• PLATE 66 Molossid Bats
• PLATE 67 Lasiurine Bats
• PLATE 68 Giant-eared Bats
• PLATE 69 Longer-eared Myotis
• PLATE 70 Western Myotis 1
• PLATE 71 Western Myotis 2
• PLATE 72 Eastern Myotis
• PLATE 73 Other Eastern Bats
• PLATE 76 Temperate Cats
• PLATE 76 Temperate Cats
• PLATE 77 Tropical Cats
• PLATE 78 Canis
• PLATE 79 Smaller Foxes
• PLATE 80 Larger Foxes
• PLATE 81 Bears
• PLATE 82 Procyonids
• PLATE 83 Aquatic Mustelids
• PLATE 84 Big Mustelids
• PLATE 85 Mustela
• PLATE 86 Spotted and Hog-nosed Skunks
• PLATE 87 Mephitis
• PLATE 88 Otariid Seals
• PLATE 89 Phocid Seals
• PLATE 90 Grayish Seals
• PLATE 91 Big Seals and Manatee
• PLATE 92 Antelopes and Pigs
• PLATE 93 Goats and Sheep
• PLATE 94 Bison and Nilgai
• PLATE 95 Arctic Ungulates
• PLATE 96 Elk and Moose
• PLATE 97 Native Deer
• PLATE 98 Exotic Ungulates
• PLATE 99 Large Whales without Dorsal Fins
• PLATE 100 Enormous Whales with Dorsal Fins
• PLATE 101 Large Whales with Dorsal Fins
• PLATE 102 Small White and Gray Whales
• PLATE 103 Black Dolphins
• PLATE 104 Unstriped, Beaked Dolphins
• PLATE 105 Striped, Beaked Dolphins
• PLATE 106 Striped, Blunt-nosed Dolphins and Porpoises
• PLATES 107 AND 108 Bow-riding Dolphins and Whales
• PLATE 109 Beaked Whales
• PLATE 110 Heads of Male Mesoplodon
• PLATES 111 and 112 Whale and Dolphin Dive Sequences (not to scale)
• PLATE 113 Carnivore Scats
• PLATE 114 Vegetarian Scats
• Glossary
• Appendix