Mammalian reproduction with a female focus

Abstract

Mammalian reproduction has fascinated scientists and nonscientists for decades. For this reason, a number of books on mammalian reproduction have been published over the years including the encyclopedic Asdell’s Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction (original as well as the revised version by Hayssen et al. 1993) and the 8-volume series Reproduction in Mammals by Austin and Short, published during the 1980s. A number of these books focus purely on reproductive physiology and are written for specialists in the field, a few bring in the effects of ecology on reproduction (e.g., The Ecology of Reproduction in Wild and Domestic Mammals [Sadlier 1969]) while others tend to encompass both ecological and physiological aspects of reproduction (e.g., Mammalian Reproductive Biology by Bronson 1989), but these are dated because the field has advanced so much in recent decades.