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THE BADGER (NMN 1)

by Ernest G. Neal

Published by Collins. 4th. 1975

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. 4th edition. New Naturalist Monograph. Green cloth boards. Beautifully written and illustrated. 29 black and white photos, 12 maps & diagrams, and colour photo frontis. 158 pages.

Boards clean. Browning and foxing to text block. Minor tape marks to endpapers. Name stamped in ink to lower edge of half-title page. Small closed tear (no loss) to top edge of half-title page. Frontis and title page affected by damp foxing. Tiny pinhole to title page. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is clean with minor scuff to lower front panel, publisher's laminate has been removed leaving glue marks to verso not visible to front. Overall, a presentable copy.

ISBN: 0002130289
Stock no. 1830803

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Contents

  • EDITOR'S PREFACE
  • AUTHOR'S PREFACE
  • The main problems, and the manner in which an attempt was made to solve them.
  • 1 THE BADGER AT HOME
  • 2 GENERAL FEATURES
  • 3 CLASSIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION
  • 4 GETTING TO KNOW THE ANIMALS
  • 5 THE FOOD OF BADGERS
  • 6 GENERAL BEHAVIOUR
  • 7 HIBERNATION
  • 8 THE MUSK-GLANDS AND THEIR USES
  • 9 REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE AND ASSOCIATED HABITS
  • 10 DEVELOPMENT
  • 11 THE ANNUAL CYCLE OF BEHAVIOUR
  • 12 BADGERTS SETS AND LIFE UNDERGROUND
  • 13 THE BADGER IN FOLK LORE AND FABLE
  • 14 PHOTOGRAPHING THE BADGER
  • 15 SUMMARY
  • APPENDIX 1 Summary of time spent by Author on observations on the badger; extract from diary
  • APPENDIX 2 Data in relation to times of emergence from sets
  • APPENDIX 3 Note on Allelomorphs
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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