The Bronx Zoo Book of Wild Animals - A Guide to Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians of the World.

New York Zoological Society und Golden Press, New York.

304 pages including index. Author's foreword says "this book aims at answering qauestions about wild animals that are likely to come up in ordinary reading, conversation and wondering -- and in the Zoo. Indeed it started out to be a Guide to the animals in N.Y.'s great Bronx Zoo." Discusses more than 2100 mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Table of contents provides a guide to all the creatures according to their categories -- flesh eaters, mans' relatives, odd-toed hoofed mammals, and so forth. Many full page color plates; illustrations are found on almost every page. Author was curator of publications for the New York Zoological Society. 

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