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If you're looking for a book recommendation for the naturalist in your life this Christmas, here are my two favourites of 2026. Both about mammals (sorry orchids, hummingbirds, and butterflies), both very different, both brilliantly written, and both highly engaging.

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Cover of Tigers Between Empires by Jonathan C Slaght. Amur Tigers, the decaying Soviet Union, committed field scientists. Tigers! Just wow. Cover of The Genius Bat, by Yossi Yovel. I've harboured a decades-long yearning to know more about bats and, with The Genius Bat (and my first bat detector), I'm completely hooked.
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Learn many amazing ways of bats - and the who's and hows that have given us this knowledge. And it's all highly readable thanks to Yossi Yovel's writing.
October 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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🦇 Something to PREORDER now .... and to enjoy in October
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal by Yossi Yovel
Ecologist and neurobiologist Yovel shares the fruits of his decades of field and lab research on bats in this standout work of p...
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July 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM