Field zoology a la Douglas Adamas!, 19. Januar 2007

Okay, I wouldn't completely trust this book as a field guide to road kill... But it's definitely in the same category as Douglas Adams' "Last chance to see" and Gary Larson's comics. Full of information on American species it opens the mind to have a closer look on the road and describes an area where many zoologists get their specimens from: the road. Though a bit morbid, it's a homage to all those people who scrape of road kill to complete a collection. A must for everybody who hits the brakes for a dead skunk and a good advice for those people, who see nature with heaps of fun!

       "The" field guide for the naturalist in a hurry, 18. Mai 2000

Roger Knutson, a biologist at Luther College, IA, has put together a truly ingenious little book. A guide to the "really most sincerely dead" animals one often sees along streets, roads, and highways. While some may dismiss this book as a parody of other field guides, it is full of accurate, meaningful biological information about animals that frequent roads and roadsides, and that often find themselves smashed into two dimensions.

Is this book funny? Yes! Is it a parody on other field guides? Perhaps.

So, what is this book about anyway? This is a guide to the animal remains left behind after most carrion feeders and decomposers are done with a dead animal. EEEeeewwwww. OK, OK, perhaps it is a bit grotesque, but there is meaningful biological information to be had there.

The book is well written, it is fun, and can be used throughout much of North America.

It makes a great gift for the natualist on your gift list. After all, let's face it, most of us spend more time on the road than we do out "in" nature.

As a biologist myself, I give this book 5 stars for biological content and for the tongue in cheek approach to this somewhat unsavory topic.

Give it a try! Or give it to someone else.

      Unique idea, beautifully executed..., 7. August 1998

This book should be translated in Finnish, so all my fellow countrymen could enjoy it. In spite of all the gore, the overall idea is to bring the miracles of nature closer to the man on the street.

      A fairly good reference, and funny!, 10. Juni 1998

This book makes a great gift for the person who has everything! It certainly gets people's attention....and actually, you can identify the "flattened fauna" spotted while hiking with this book. I liked it.