Lions are the only social cat. They hunt together, raise cubs together, and defend territories together against neighbors and strangers. Lions also rest atop their ecological pyramid, with profound impacts on competitors and prey alike, but their future is far from assured. Craig Packer interweaves his discoveries from more than 40 years of research—including a substantial body of new findings—to provide an unforgettable portrait of the African lion.
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’
- It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera
Authors: TIE EIPPER AND SCOTT EIPPER
With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent’s species and subspecies—from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.
It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera. It also covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category.
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