Don E. Wilson
Contributor
BIOGRAPHY
Curator Emeritus of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Coauthor of Mammals of North America and many others; coeditor of Mammal Species of the World and many others.
Primary Contributions (2)
Bat, (order Chiroptera), any member of the only group of mammals capable of flight. This ability, coupled with the ability to navigate at night by using a system of acoustic orientation (echolocation), has made the bats a highly diverse and populous order. More than 1,200 species are currently…
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Publications (2)
Mammals of North America: Second Edition (Princeton Field Guides, 58) (November 2009)
The best-selling field guide that "sets new standards" (New Scientist) and "makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States. . . and Canada obsolete" (Journal of Mammalogy) is now even better. Covering 20 species recognized since 2002 and including 13 new color plates, this fully revised edition of Mammals of North America illustrates all 462 known mammal species in the United States and Canada--each in beautiful color and accurate detail. With a more up-to-date...
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Mammal Species of the World : A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2-volume set (December 2005)
Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World is the classic reference book on the taxonomic classification and distribution of the more than 5400 species of mammals that exist today. The third edition includes detailed information on nomenclature and, for the first time, common names. Each concise entry covers type locality, distribution, synonyms, and major reference sources. The systematic arrangement of information indicates evolutionary relationships at both the ordinal and the family...
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