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John Seidensticker
A longtime wildlife biologist and conservation scientist, he writes with the authority of someone who has spent decades studying endangered animals up close. His books make complex questions about tigers, pandas, rabbits, and other species feel vivid, clear, and deeply connected to the real world.
1 Audiobook
Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae
by John N. Mugaas, Kathleen P. Mahlke-Johnson, John Seidensticker
About the author
John Seidensticker is a conservation scientist best known for his work on wild cats and other endangered species. Johns Hopkins Press describes him as a conservation scientist who led the Conservation Ecology Center at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, chaired the Save the Tiger Fund Council, and served as an affiliate professor of environmental science and policy at George Mason University.
His writing reflects that hands-on scientific background. He has written and co-written books including Predators, The Smithsonian Book of Giant Pandas, Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide, and Building an Arc, bringing wildlife biology and conservation to general readers in a way that is informative without feeling distant.
Seidensticker has also been recognized in the international wild cat conservation community; the IUCN Cat Specialist Group lists him as an emeritus scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and notes his long association with the group. Taken together, his career and books show a writer whose subject is not just animals themselves, but the larger challenge of helping them survive in a human-shaped world.