A beautifully illustrated guide to the larger and more frequently encountered African mammals. Individual accounts with range maps for over 200 species provide information on each animal's description, distribution status, habitat, behavior, food, and reproduction. Excellent coverage of the larger, more familiar species, plus limited coverage of some smaller African mammals including hedgehogs, hyraxes, hares and rabbits, and squirrels. Exceptionally well illustrated with over 400 color photos, b/w footprint diagrams, maps, indexes to English, German, and French common names.
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Husband and wife team, Chris and Tilde Stuart, are best known for their various mammal field guides, but also for numerous other titles they have written on the natural environment of Africa. They are founders of the African Carnivore Research Programme and the African-Arabian Wildlife Research Centre. They travel extensively and are involved in various research programs dealing with carnivores and other animals. Husband and wife team, Chris and Tilde Stuart, are best known for their various mammal field guides, but also for numerous other titles they have written on the natural environment of Africa. They are founders of the African Carnivore Research Programme and the African-Arabian Wildlife Research Centre. They travel extensively and are involved in various research programs dealing with carnivores and other animals.
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Husband and wife team, Chris & Mathilde Stuart, have been involved in wildlife research and book writing for 30 years. Mathilde was educated in Austria and Iran, her final degree a medical doctorate from the University of Innsbruck; Chris attended school in England and South Africa and graduated with an MSc in wildlife ecology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Our interests are wide and include photography, writing and travel; conservation and wildlife research; horses and music. We have published many scientific and popular articles. Between us we have visited, and spent time in, 50 countries, including Canada, USA, Australia and Zambia, with our time being split between our homes in South Africa and Canada.
We have had 18 books published, including several best selling field guides. we are currently developing a series of field guides that will combine facts about the wildlife and tracks and signs for many different countries and regions of the world, in both paper and electronic formats under the banner StuartOnNature.
Our interests are wide and include photography, writing and travel; conservation and wildlife research; horses and music. We have published many scientific and popular articles. Between us we have visited, and spent time in, 50 countries, including Canada, USA, Australia and Zambia, with our time being split between our homes in South Africa and Canada.
We have had 18 books published, including several best selling field guides. we are currently developing a series of field guides that will combine facts about the wildlife and tracks and signs for many different countries and regions of the world, in both paper and electronic formats under the banner StuartOnNature.
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Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa,
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I bought this book a long time ago when it was first published because I was looking for some information on primates and carnivores of Africa. When I found this book I wasn't disappointed! There are full colour, clear pictures on every page on primates, hoofed mammals, the elephant, carnivores, the aardvark, hyraxes, pangolins, rabbits and hares and the rodents. The carnivore section is the best but they all show original photographs and accounts with distribution, status, behaviour, a map and breeding habits of each animal or a group of them. Every picture has a caption saying where the photo was taken or a special feature of that mammal that makes it different from any other. There are no negative comments I can make on this book because it is clear, informative and with lots of pictures which can help your studies whether you're going to Africa or not!
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I encountered this book in South Africa at the game preserve where I went on a brief safari. In the process of looking for the book after I left, I found that most other guides have drawings, not photographs, to show the animals. The photographs alone are worth the price. There is also information about physical characteristics, distinguishing features to help identify the animal, habitat, behavior and rarity. Many have pictures (not photographs) of their tracks. Delightful and fascinating!
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I am a biology student with a specific interest in large African mammals. My husband bought this book for me and it has proven useful. It is a great quick guide for a wide range of animals.
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Africa is home to at least 60 species of primates, including man, but some of these may in fact only warrant subspecies status, whereas some of the subspecies should perhaps become species in their own right. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cooler daylight hours, single young weighing, overall body colour, single calf weighing, white chevron between the eyes, pelage colour, lyrate horns, facial blaze, galago species, spiralled horns, savanna associations, nursery herds, wide habitat tolerance, horn length, adult rams, facial whiskers, fixed home ranges, pygmy antelope, forest duikers, single fawn, white facial markings, common eland, territorial bull, grey mongoose, full species status Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, East Africa, Congo River, Horn of Africa, Front Back, Red Sea, Tana River, North Africa, Ivory Coast, Kruger National Park, Gulf of Guinea, Niger River, Congo Basin, Ethiopian Highlands, Great Rift Valley, Dahomey Gap, Mount Kilimanjaro, Table Mountain, Western Cape New!
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Africa is home to at least 60 species of primates, including man, but some of these may in fact only warrant subspecies status, whereas some of the subspecies should perhaps become species in their own right. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cooler daylight hours, single young weighing, overall body colour, single calf weighing, white chevron between the eyes, pelage colour, lyrate horns, facial blaze, galago species, spiralled horns, savanna associations, nursery herds, wide habitat tolerance, horn length, adult rams, facial whiskers, fixed home ranges, pygmy antelope, forest duikers, single fawn, white facial markings, common eland, territorial bull, grey mongoose, full species status Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, East Africa, Congo River, Horn of Africa, Front Back, Red Sea, Tana River, North Africa, Ivory Coast, Kruger National Park, Gulf of Guinea, Niger River, Congo Basin, Ethiopian Highlands, Great Rift Valley, Dahomey Gap, Mount Kilimanjaro, Table Mountain, Western Cape New!
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- Field Guide to Larger Mammals of Africa by Chris Stuart in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Southern Mozambique (Travellers' Wildlife Guides) by William Branch in Back Matter
- Field guide by Terry Collins in Back Matter
- Field Guide to the Tracks and Signs of Southern and East Afr by Chris Stuart in Back Matter
- The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals (Princeton Pocket Guides) by Jonathan Kingdon in Back Matter
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