Life of Marsupials

Life of Marsupials
ISBN-10
0643062572
ISBN-13
9780643062573
Category
Nature
Pages
442
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
Author
C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe

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In Life of Marsupials, one of the world's leading experts explores the biology and evolution of this unusual group - with their extraordinary diversity of forms around the world - in Australia, New Guinea and South America. -back cover.

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