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ANIMALS IN NATURE
Vladimir Smirin & Yuri Smirin
ANIMALS IN NATURE
Edinburgh: Russian Nature Press, 1999. ISBN 0 9532990 1 5Softback; sewn; x + 302 pp.; 210 x 138 mm; with c.400 drawings, 10 maps.
In the course of their professional lives Vladimir & Yuri Smirin - well-known
wildlife artists as well as biologists - travelled extensively through the former Soviet Union
on their expeditions studying mammals. The chapters are grouped according to the habitats
visited - desert, mountains, coast, steppe and forest - and describe the authors' observations
of seals, Arctic foxes, jeyrans, ibex, chamois, elk (at an elk ‘farm'), gorals, pikas, great
gerbils, burunduks, and several other small mammals. Text and illustrations (Vladimir's pen/ink
drawings) are closely integrated. There are numerous scientific, linguistic and general notes
at the back of the book.
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