Product Description

The Mammals of Virginia is an exhaustive review of the mammals of Virginia and the literature about them that has developed during the past four hundred years. The book opens with historical perspectives on the study of Virginia's mammals and a summary of the natural regions of Virginia. Most of the book is devoted to a systematic review of the zoology and ecology of each species of mammal that now occurs, or that recently occurred, in Virginia. Each account consists of a description of the species with notes on its distribution, habitat affiliation, behavior, diet, reproduction and development, longevity, parasitology, and selected other topics that vary among the species, as well as a list of locations of museum specimens. A color photograph and shaded drawing of the skull from standard perspectives is provided for each species. Among the appendices is a review of the mammalian fauna of Virginia during the past Ice Age. A lengthy reference section identifies more than 2000 published sources of information about Virginia's mammals.

The Mammals of Virginia is a major contribution to the literature on the natural history of Virginia, and a volume that should be in the library of every school, college and university, zoologist, ecologist, environmental consultant, planner, and other student or steward of the natural history of Virginia.

Product Details

• Published on: 1998-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 459 pages

About the Author
Dr. Donald W. Linzey, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, is a biologist living and working in southwestern Virginia. He has received degrees from Western Maryland College in Westminster, Maryland (A.B., 1961), and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (M.S., 1963; Ph.D., 1966). Since the early 1960s, he has been studying mammals and other vertebrates in the eastern United States. In the early 1960s he worked as a park ranger and naturalist at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and he has taught biological and environmental sciences at Cornell University, The University of South Alabama, Virginia Tech, and, since 1986, Wytheville Community College in Wytheville, Virginia. Dr. Linzey is presently coordinating a long-term multidisciplinary study of the decline of amphibians in Bermuda.

For the past eight years, Linzey has served as Director of the Blue Ridge Highlands Regional Science Fair and he has recently completed a three-year term on the Science Service Advisory Board which oversees the annual International Science and Engineering Fair. Linzey's recent awards include Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council of Higher Education (1996), Distinguished Service Award for Wytheville Community College (1998), and the Chancellor's Professorship Award from the Virginia Community College System (1998).