Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-Kangaroos

Textbook Natural History Zoology Marsupial Biology Wildlife Conservation Evolutionary Biology Australian Fauna Mammalogy

Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-Kangaroos is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to Australia’s iconic hopping marsupials, compiled by two of the country’s leading macropod biologists, Graeme Coulson and Mark Eldridge. Published in 2010 by CSIRO Publishing, this 384-page, large-format paperback (275 mm × 195 mm) distils decades of field and laboratory research into 21 fully referenced chapters that cover everything from fossil history and evolutionary genetics to digestive physiology, reproductive ecology, disease management and conservation. Students, wildlife managers and natural-history enthusiasts gain a one-stop resource that is still the standard university text and government reference more than a decade after release.

What makes this copy especially attractive to buyers is its immaculate interior: every page is crisp, unmarked and free of highlighting, notes or dog-ears, while the sewn binding remains tight and square. The only wear is faint outer-cover scuffing acquired during shelf storage, so the book opens flat for lab or field use without the spine cracks common in heavily used ex-library copies. ISBN 9780643096622 ensures you receive the full-colour first edition with the original diagnostic artwork, distribution maps and photographic plates that later reprints often convert to black-and-white.

Collectors and professionals value this edition because no subsequent reprint has matched its page size or colour depth, making the detailed osteology plates and habitat photographs far clearer than in digital versions. As textbook prices for specialised zoology titles continue to rise, a clean second-hand copy offers an affordable route to authoritative content that underpins current conservation policy for more than 60 macropod species, several of which are now endangered. Secure this sturdy, lightly carried copy to add a cornerstone marsupial reference to your natural-history library without paying collector-level premiums.

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