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The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates [Paperback]

Richard Despard Estes (Author), Daniel Otte (Illustrator), E.O. Wilson (Foreword)
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0520080858 978-0520080850 December 1, 1992
The Behavior Guide to African Mammals is as different from a conventional field guide as motion pictures are from a snapshot. Whether we are able to look at them face to face, on television, or in the hundreds of illustrations provided here by Daniel Otte, this guide allows us to understand what animals do and what their behavior means.
Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork and on the research of many other scientists, Richard Estes describes and explains the behavior of four major groups of mammals. Estes's remarkably informative guide is as up-to-date for the zoologist as it is accessible for the interested onlooker.

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"The most thorough description of mammals in Africa accessible to the layman."--"The Travel Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"A work of tremendous scope. . . . Amateur naturalists and tourists to the parks of Africa and finally professionals will find this a stimulating, well-documented summary."--John F. Eisenberg, Florida Museum of Natural History

"We have seen in the field how very helpful and informative The Behavior Guide is. Our knowledgeable safari guides turned often to their prized and already well-thumbed copies, and we continue to refer to ours now that we are back home."--Douglas F. Williamson, Jr., National Council, World Wildlife Fund, U.S.

"A fascinating, perceptive, and enjoyable travel companion heightens the pleasure of being afield. The Behavior Guide to African Mammals is that ideal companion. Lucid, accurate, and marvelously illustrated, the book is a basic reference for anyone interested in natural history."--George B. Schaller, author of The Serengheti Lion and The Deer and the Tiger

"A remarkable review of what is known about the larger African mammals."--A.R.E. Sinclair, The Ecology Group, University of British Columbia

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  • Paperback: 660 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press (December 1, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520080858
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520080850
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars For the very keen wildlife watcher, May 17, 2002
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RG Wade (Birmingham, W Midlands United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates (Paperback)
I suspect the book is a little over my head, but it's very thorough & well-reasearched. For a layman like myself, I think I'd like photos - or colour pictures of the animals too - but as the author says, the book goes beyond the normal "field guides" which aim to help with animal identification.

If you want to know things like how the lives of a dikdik & a duiker differ (but you could tell them apart), this is the book for you!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars For the very keen wildlife watcher, May 17, 2002
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RG Wade (Birmingham, W Midlands United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates (Paperback)
I suspect the book is a little over my head, but it's very thorough & well-reasearched. For a layman like myself, I think I'd like photos - or colour pictures of the animals too - but as the author says, the book goes beyond the normal "field guides" which aim to help with animal identification.

If you want to know things like how the lives of a dikdik & a duiker differ (but you could tell them apart), this is the book for you!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great In the Field or in the Armchair, January 11, 2007
This review is from: The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates (Paperback)
If you enjoy learning specific information about mammals, this book is for you. It is a bit technical which makes it more interesting. I used this book when on Safari and it added tremendously to my enjoyment.
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First Sentence:
True ungulates are hoofed mammals that walk on tiptoe. Read the first page
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displacement grazing, see family introduction, dwarf bush baby, dwarf bush babies, symbolic biting, hoof glands, jackal account, tribal introduction, greater bush baby, most viverrids, springbok males, other tragelaphines, dunging ceremony, social licking, lateral presentation, social mongooses, male secondary characters, puffing snorts, reenter estrus, concealment period, sniffing vulva, courtship circling, social presenting, explosive spitting, lesser bush baby
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South Africa, East Africa, Added References, Old World, Ngorongoro Crater, Kibale Forest, Cape Province, Miombo Woodland Zone, South West Arid Zone, North Africa, Queen Elizabeth, Northern Savanna, West African, Kalahari Gemsbok, Lake Victoria, New World, Serengeti Plain, Arabian Peninsula, Congo Basin, Namib Desert, Superspecies Cercopithecus, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Savanna, Ivory Coast, Orange River
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