(Paperback)

New Zealand's endemic fauna evolved in isolation until first Polynesians, and then Europeans, arrived with a host of companion animals such as rats and cats, which devastated the fragile populations of unique birds, lizards and insects. Carolyn M. King brings together historical analysis and recent ecological research to understand this tragedy.

(Hardback, 3rd Revised edition)

A definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica). It lists 65 species, including native and exotic, wild and feral, living and extinct, residents, vagrants and failed introductions. It comprehensively describes their history, biology and ecology.