Kingdon's remarkable seven-volume masterwork on East African mammals concludes with two volumes on the bovids, placing them in a broad comparative, ecological, and evolutionary context. Volume IIIC covers cattle, water buffalo, kudus, elands, dwarf antelopes, duikers, reedbucks, and waterbucks; IIID covers gazelles, impalas, wildebeests, oryxes, sheep, and goats. In addition to the stunning, lifelike drawings that are an integral part of the text, the volumes include a reappraisal of bovid taxonomy and original analyses of the form and function of body shape and size, horn shape, coat pattern, and tooth structure.
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Jonathan Kingdon was born in Tanganyika, now Tanzania, and educated at Makerere University, Uganda. He is presently affiliated with the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
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A "Must-Have" For All Wildlife Artists!,
By John Bellucci (artistexpr@aol.com) (Xenia, Ohio - USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume 3, Part D: Bovids (Paperback)
As a professional Wildlife Artist, my field includes painting, sculpture, and taxidermy. This makes all of the "East African Mammals" series of books by Jonathan Kingdon an absolute necessity. The text gives a wonderful insight into the natural history as well as the historical ancestry of the majority of East Africa's wild children. But even more, it is Mr. Kingdon's exquisite pencil renderings of the individual species as well as the structure of their musculature, that make these books so special. These, in turn, are further enhanced by deeper dissection-like illustrations revealing deeper muscle structures responsible for much of the movement and support for the mammal in question. These types of drawings are especially fascinating in the Large Mammals volume, wherein the trunk of the elephant and the mouth structure of the hippopotamus are visually dissected to provide a greater insight into these structures, and their performance in the animal. The books in this series are therefore especially indispensable to the Wildlife Restorer (taxidermist) as a guide to anatomy that we rarely get to see "in-the-flesh" as it were. I can, therefore, wholeheartedly recommend this series of books to anyone who cares enough about their chosen field of art, to pursue all ends to collect as much reference material as possible. These books are an excellent addition to the wildlife artists' library.
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This review is from: East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume 3, Part C: Bovids (Paperback)
As a professional Wildlife Artist, my field includes painting, sculpture, and taxidermy. This makes all of the "East African Mammals" series of books by Jonathan Kingdon an absolute necessity. The text gives a wonderful insight into the natural history as well as the historical ancestry of the majority of East Africa's wild children. But even more, it is Mr. Kingdon's exquisite pencil renderings of the individual species as well as the structure of their musculature, that make these books so special. These musulature drawings, in turn, are further enhanced by deeper dissection-like illustrations revealing the deeper muscle structures responsible for much of the movement and support for the mammal in question. This volume takes us through the largest of the antelope on the African continent - the Eland, both Giant and Common, the Sable antelope, and both Kudu, Greater and Lesser - as well as the vast selection of East Africas' smallest antelope species. The Duikers, and Klipspringer, among others, are handled in all their delicate detail. Besides photos of these little antelope, these illustrations are absolutely needed in order to produce accurate renderings. I cannot stress enough, the importance of the anatomy that is revealed within these pages. The books in this series are therefore especially indispensable to the Wildlife Restorer (taxidermist) as a guide to anatomy that we rarely get to see "in-the-flesh" as it were. I can, therefore, wholeheartedly recommend this series of books to anyone who cares enough about their chosen field of art, to pursue all ends to collect as much reference material as possible. These books are an excellent addition to the wildlife artists' library.
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Excellent resource,
This review is from: East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume 3, Part D: Bovids (Paperback)
This is an excellent resource tool for anyone with a serious interest in African insectivores and or bats. The author provides detailed information, not found in most texts. The drawings are wonderful.
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other tragelaphines, tragelaphine species, savanna buffaloes, bovid evolution, giant kudu, other duikers, neotragine antelopes, duiker species, pigmy antelope, main forest block, facial glands, mountain reedbuck, southern reedbuck, preorbital glands, female eland, more exposed habitats, annulated horns, bush duiker, bovid species, horn wrestling, bohor reedbuck, territorial grounds, forest duikers, red duiker, pedal glands Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Africa, South Africa, Ruwenzori Park, Family Bovidae Order Artiodactyla Local, Kruger Park, Lake Victoria, West Africa, Rift Valley, Family Bovidae Order Artiodactvla Local, Nairobi National Park, Rukwa Valley, Ruwenzori National Park, South Sudan, South-central Africa, West Nile, Aswa Lolim, Bugalla Island, Central Refuge, Family Bovidae Measurements Order Artiodactyla, Horn of Africa, Nile Sudd New!
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Contemporary agriculture is developing techniques that are turning over an ever larger proportion of the world's primary production to our own use. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other tragelaphines, tragelaphine species, savanna buffaloes, bovid evolution, giant kudu, other duikers, neotragine antelopes, duiker species, pigmy antelope, main forest block, facial glands, mountain reedbuck, southern reedbuck, preorbital glands, female eland, more exposed habitats, annulated horns, bush duiker, bovid species, horn wrestling, bohor reedbuck, territorial grounds, forest duikers, red duiker, pedal glands Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Africa, South Africa, Ruwenzori Park, Family Bovidae Order Artiodactyla Local, Kruger Park, Lake Victoria, West Africa, Rift Valley, Family Bovidae Order Artiodactvla Local, Nairobi National Park, Rukwa Valley, Ruwenzori National Park, South Sudan, South-central Africa, West Nile, Aswa Lolim, Bugalla Island, Central Refuge, Family Bovidae Measurements Order Artiodactyla, Horn of Africa, Nile Sudd New!
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