Washoe County Library System

Provides detailed information on the physical characteristics, evolution, various species, behavior, habitat, life cycle, and interaction with humans of falcons, some of the world's fastest birds.

Describes the physical characteristics, hunting and feeding behavior, habitat, life cycle, methods of communication, and endangered status of alligators.

For once, operations at the enormous zoo/theme park appear to be running smoothly and Teddy Fitzroy is finally able to give detective work a rest. But then a local lion is accused of killing a famous dog, and the dog's owner goes on a crusade to have the cat hunted. But it looks like the lion might have been framed, and a renegade animal activist wants help to prove it. Soon, Teddy finds himself wrapped up in the middle of his most bizarre, hilarious,...

Discusses what gray wolves are, why they are endangered, what their current status is, and what is being done to help them. Includes Internet links to Web sites related to gray wolves.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and endangered status of hawks and falcons.

Noting that island ecosystems have always suffered high rates of extinction and that human activity increasingly carves the landscape into island-like fragments, David Quammen examines the conditions in many island ecosystems around the world.

Describes the life of Lonesome George, the last living Pinta Island giant tortoise, from his search for food on the Galapagos island to his days at the Charles Darwin Research Station, where scientists are encouraging him to mate.

High in the sky, a peregrine falcon joins her mate for some swooping and diving before returning to her nest to guard her eggs. The couple doesn't know it yet, but they will lose most of these eggs--the first clutch to a volunteer scaling the cliff, and the next to the harmful effects of DDT. Told against the backdrop of scientists' efforts to understand the raptors' decline in the wild, this illustrated nonfiction book tells the story of several...