Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Explores the winter survival tactics of animals, including flying squirrels, grizzly bears, torpid turtles, and insects, revealing how these animals alter and adapt to an array of extraordinary conditions.

Foreword / David B. Morton -- Introduction / Viktor and Annie Reinhardt -- The ill-effects of uncomfortable quarters / William M.S. Russell -- Comfortable quarters for mice in research institutions / Chris M. Sherwin -- Comfortable quarters for gerbils in research institutions / Eva Waiblinger -- Comfortable quarters for rats in research institutions / Monica M. Lawlor -- Comfortable quarters for hamsters in research institutions / Gernot Kuhnen --...

First published in 1653, Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler" is a classic and much-loved treatise on the art of fishing. Immediately popular after its publication, "The Compleat Angler" was reprinted and updated numerous times by Walton. Written as a conversation between the fictional characters of the experienced angler Piscator and his student Viator, which was changed to a hunter named Venator in later editions, the treatise is part an instructional...