Salta Province, which lies astride the Tropic of Capricorn in extreme northwest Argentina, encompasses many of South America s major habitats: montane moist forest, thorn forest, lowland desert, highland desert, and deciduous forests. As a result, the area supports a wealth of mammal species and is of great biogeographic interest. This bilingual guide is the first to survey the mammal fauna of a major region of South America, the continent that has the richest array of plant and animal life on earth.
The "Guide "includes information on the natural history, taxonomy, and behavior of...