Book description
The badgers of Wytham Woods (Oxford, UK) have been studied continuously and intensively by David Macdonald for almost 50 years (25 of them with his former student and co-author Chris Newman), generating a wealth of data pertaining to every facet of their ecology and evolution. Through a mix of accessible,…
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I love badgers, whether British ones snuffling through the dark wood or foraging around farms and houses or their distant African and Asia cousins, the honey badgers. I know and have benefitted from David Macdonald’s immense knowledge of wildlife.
This book is the product of 50 years of David’s and 30 years of Chris’s study of badgers in an Oxfordshire wood. You can find anything you want to know about badgers in this book, and it is written in a way that wealth of detail is not intimidating. Take this scene-setting start – “Like grave robbers, four of us, clutching…
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