Michael A MaresMichael Mares is an ecologist from Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has a BS degree from the University of New Mexico, a Master's degree from Fort Hays Kansas State University, and a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin. He was a museum diector and university professor, and he studied mammals throughout the world in sixty countries in North and South America, Africa, Australia and Asia. A Fulbright Scholar, a Ford Foundation National Hispanic Postdoctoral Fellow, a member of the Fulbright Board of Directors, and an advisor to the Smithsonian Institution and to museums worldwide, he has published more than two hundred articles and books, including The Encyclopedia of Deserts (University of Oklahoma Press), A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape (Harvard Press) and The Mammals of Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press). Read More Read Less