This book “celebrates some of the thousands of mammals that never get seen or talked about even though they are every bit as amazing or weird or beautiful as their overexposed cousins.”  This book shines the limelight on some of the alternative mammals out there.  Among the interesting animals included in this book are one of the few poisonous mammals, an armadillo that plugs it’s burrow with its armored back end, a weasel-like creature that stinkier than a skunk, an underwater mole with a snorkel-like nose, a krill eating seal, and round eared rabbit-like creature.  For each of the 25 mammals highlighted in this book, there is a narrative description of what makes them interesting, illustrations, a map and basic facts about size, diet, habitat, and endangered status.  The illustrations are a bit cartoon-like, giving the animals personality.

Table of Contents incudes mini-portraits of each animal. Includes a large, partially illustrated Glossary.