Australia is the only country in the world where representatives of the three major mammal types (placentals, marsupials and monotremes) are found. The country's sustained isolation from the rest of the world has allowed a fascinating and highly specialised collection of mammals to populate the continent's hugely varied habitats. Among the country's 356 native species are some of the most distinctive and rare mammals on Earth. Unfortunately, 24 introduced species (including Homo sapiens) have also established themselves across a wide range of Australian habitats, much to the continued detriment of Australia's native species. Enhanced by beautiful photography, this Wild Australia Guide traces the history of Australia's mammalian evolution, profiles key species from the major orders, and includes up-to-date conservation information to help raise awareness about the kinds of threats our native mammals face.
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KARIN COX is an Australian author who writes in her “spare time” while being a fulltime mum to two precocious girls and a black cat with the improbable name of "Ping Pong." She is the author of more than 50 trade-published titles, including children’s and adult fiction, biographies and travel guides, and Australian natural and social history texts, several of which are award-winning. Being so busy hopping from one genre to another, she runs almost wholly on white wine and insomnia, which could account for the cray-cray, but probably doesn’t. Her poems and short stories have been published in anthologies worldwide, and her novels and anthologies GROWTH, CAGE LIFE, CROWS AND OTHER BEASTS, CRUXIM, CRECHE, CREED, DARK GUARDIANS and WHAT THE SEA WANTS are available from all good online distributors and bookstores. Titles in Karin’s bestselling DARK GUARDIANS trilogy have several times topped best-seller charts for gothic romance and dark fantasy. FACEBOOK: http://smarturl.it/KCfacebook (approx. (www.facebook.com/KarinCox.Author) TWITTER: http://smarturl.it/KCtwitter (https://twitter.com/Authorandeditor) WEBPAGE: http://smarturl.it/karin (www.karincox.com) PINTEREST: http://pinterest.com/authorandeditor/ iGoogle: https://plus.google.com/u/0/
