Bannikov, A. G., ed.

Белый медведь и его охрана в советской арктике / Belyi medved i ego okhrana v sovetskoi Arktike [= The polar bear and its conserviation in the Soviet Arctic]

Leningrad: Gidrometeorologicheskoe Izdatelstvo, 1969. 8vo, pp. 185, [3]; text in Russian with English summaries; text illustrations; black cloth titled in silver; textblock starting to tone, else clean and sound, near fine. Contains articles on the polar bear's origin, phylogenetic links and evolution, geographical variability and population structure, former and present-day habitation, distribution and numbers, peculiarites of life history and behavior, epizootological links of the polar bear and its role as a carrier of trichinellosis invasion; the volume of kill in the past and at present, the problems of keeping it in captivity, and others. Item #59742

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