Product Description: An excellent pocket-size reference and field identification aid to the 252 species of birds found in Costa Rica. Over 250 full-color photographs.

Product Description: World-renowned for its biological diversity and model conservation system, Costa Rica is home to a wide variety of amphibians and reptiles, from the golden toad to the scorpion lizard to the black-headed bushmaster. Jay M. Savage has studied these fascinating creatures for more than forty years, and in The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica he provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of their biology and evolution ever produced...read more

Shows and describes a variety of species of frogs and toads from around the world, and looks at their characteristics, life cycles, and habitats.

Product Description: Vibrant photos and fascinating text bring Costa Rica's hummingbirds to life. Hummingbirds of Costa Rica features 44 of the 45 species of hummers that inhabit Costa Rica. (The Plain-capped starthroat, the missing species, lives only in the highest treetops...read more

Product Description: In Snakes 2001, join internationally acclaimed wildlife photographers Michael and Patricia Fogden in a celebration of one of nature's most elusive creatures. Its silent, seemingly effortless movement is everything human locomotion is not.

Product Description: This is a book about some of nature's most alluring and forbidding creatures, written by a man with an abiding passion for snakes, as well as for science, the fate of the planet, and the wonder of life. Harry Greene presents every facet of the natural history of snakes--their diversity, evolution, and conservation--and at the same time makes a personal statement of why these animals are so compelling...read more

Demonstrates the diversity of animal coloration as well as its role in social signalling, defense, breeding, and the interaction of prey and predators