King Cheetah: The Story of the Quest [Hardcover]

Lena Godsall Bottriell (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub; 1st Edition. edition (September 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004085882
• ISBN-13: 978-9004085886
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,024,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing to with Hybrids!!, January 22, 2010

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Ruth Marshall "Bushbaby" - See all my reviews

This review is from: King Cheetah: The Story of the Quest (Hardcover)

King Cheetah:The Story of the Quest, published by eminent scientific house Brill of Leiden - and the definitive treatise in book form on King Cheetah to date - doesn't remotely purport (as erroneously claimed by an earlier "reviewer") at any point within its pages that King Cheetah, the most exiting development in modern mammology, is a hybrid (a wacky notion floated in the King Cheetah's initial days of discovery when few could explain the occurrence, and why, of this striped and blotched phenomenon.
Rather, in a fine assessment of the KC fieldwork and background - I write as an experienced field reseracher on big cats - the book and author patently support the position that King Cheetah, based on sound evidence, is a new geographic race of cheetah - not a species, not a throwback, and most assuredly not the result of hybridization in the wild state at a far distant point in time - in the process of evolving. In short, evolution as we watch. Clear and straightforward.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting book on Cheetah hybrids., December 10, 2007

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Joann M. Keyes "Joann" (Heartland USA.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Cheetah: The Story of the Quest (Hardcover)

Great book on Cheetah hybrids and developing science that helped identify the King as a hybrid, capable of reproducing hybrid animal. Which is rather unusual to being with. Better story teller than Joy Adams of Born Free fame. The Author also captures the political environs of an ever changing Africa.