000264689 000__ 01480cam\a22003014a\45e0 000264689 001__ 264689 000264689 005__ 20210513101401.0 000264689 008__ 011106s2002\\\\mauab\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000264689 010__ $$a 2001051786 000264689 015__ $$aGBA2-Y0661 000264689 020__ $$a0674007476 (alk. paper) 000264689 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm48449973 000264689 035__ $$a264689 000264689 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dUKM$$dC#P$$dVOC 000264689 042__ $$apcc 000264689 049__ $$aISEA 000264689 05000 $$aQL703$$b.M368 2002 000264689 08200 $$a599.1754$$221 000264689 1001_ $$aMares, Michael A. 000264689 24512 $$aA desert calling :$$blife in a forbidding landscape /$$cMichael A. Mares. 000264689 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2002. 000264689 300__ $$axv, 318 p. :$$bill., maps ;$$c23 cm. 000264689 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [293]-306). 000264689 5050_ $$aForeword by Stephen Jay Gould -- Prologue -- Search for undiscovered life -- Immortal animals -- Elfin farmers and cactophylic carpenters -- Darkness and the cave of the jaguar -- Winding path to field biology -- Desert at the bottom of the world -- Different actors, different scripts -- Desert in the sky -- Vampire and the phantoms of All Hallows' Eve -- Land of the shah -- Impenetrable land of thorns -- Devil's town -- In the shadow of the pyramids -- Naming the anonymous -- From howling wolf mice to fairy armadillos -- Aridity's cornucopia -- Life in the desert of salt -- Land of diamonds -- Epilogue. 000264689 650_0 $$aMammals. 000264689 650_0 $$aDesert animals. 000264689 650_0 $$aBiology$$xFieldwork. 000264689 85200 $$bgen$$hQL703$$i.M368$$i2002 000264689 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:264689$$pGLOBAL_SET 000264689 980__ $$aBIB 000264689 980__ $$aBOOK 000264689 994__ $$aE0$$bISE