March 25, 2025

A wonderfully illustrated guide to the natural history of the world’s bats

• Includes a wealth of stunning color photos across 288 pages

• Features dozens of representative species profiles that demonstrate the remarkable diversity and adaptability of the only mammals on Earth capable of powered flight

• Covers key topics such as anatomy, echolocation, diet, thermoregulation, mating, diseases, and immunity

• Discusses human relationships with bats and future conservation challenges

2023

• Tackles the difficult challenge of uncovering the pathogenic cause, epidemiological mechanics, and broader historical impacts of an extremely deadly third-century ancient Roman pandemic.

• Through precise historical and scientific problem-solving, analysis, and modeling, the authors piece together a portrait of an ancient plague that is consistent with both the surviving ancient evidence and the latest modern medical and molecular approaches. 

• Spoiler alert - bats are a part of this facinating story!

2005

A compendium of mammalian taxonomy, distribution, and conservation - as it existed in 2005. 

• Available in hard copy as 2 volumes

• Available online, an exceptional taxonomic research tool for tracing all scientific names (including synonyms) for mammals through 2005.

• For current species lists and associated mammal metadata, please see the Mammal Diversity Database, a product of the American Society of Mammalogists.  

• Also published in 1993 in the second edition. Contact me for species data from that version if needed.