The wildlife of southern Africa is the major attraction for visitors to this popular region. This guide encompasses all countries south of the Zambezi and Kuene rivers: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, southern Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. In the same format as the acclaimed Madagascar Wildlife it provides a colorful introduction to the mammals, birds, reptiles, and other wildlife, along with advice on how to make the most of a safari and even observing wildlife in everyday settings. The sheer range of habitats spanned by this region--grasslands, wetlands, desert, and bushveld--ensures that visitors have an almost unequalled opportunity for observing species in the wild, especially when the sealife and coral reefs of the coastline that fringes on two oceans are included. Accessible, comprehensive, and beautifully illustrated with around 300 photographs, this is a travelers' companion that will appeal both to the first-time visitor and the serious naturalist.
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"...a highly focused view of the best wildlife..." SX Magazine "A book like this is a must if you are going on safari. It's an invaluable guide." Abroad Magazine
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The wildlife of southern Africa is the major attraction for visitors to this popular region. This guide encompasses the wildlife of Botswana, Lesotho, southern Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. There are over 300 color photographs and numerous line drawings. It includes all major animal groups, from mammals to invertebrates; a special section on tracks and signs; a country -by-country summary of key sites, with full-color maps; practical tips on making the most of your visit, from foot safaris to photography.
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Southern African Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide is a good book to carry with you on your trip if you don't want separate books for birds, mammals, reptiles,and other species. Of course, it can't cover everything, but it gives helpful descriptions of different habitat zones (bushveld, grassland, forest, desert, Fynbos, wetlands, and the coast) as well as their typical inhabitants, a large section on mammals, including carnivores, grazers, and browsers as well as sea mammals, and a good section on birds, though you'll need a bird guidebook if you want to identify all the birds you see.
A very interesting section is the one on identifying tracks and scat. You can learn a lot from reading both. I took this book on a two-week photo safari trip in northeast South Africa and was very pleased with it.
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This is one of the better books for identifying African wildlife for anyone going on safari to southern Africa. If it has any fault at all it is that it tries to cover a very large subject in too few pages. But some may see that as a virtue.
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For abundance, variety and visibility of wildlife, few places in the world can rival southern Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mixed feeding parties, grey rhebok, common garden bird, mountain reedbuck, red lechwe, moist savannah, red hartebeest, arid savannah, yellow mongoose, bald ibis, brown hyena, blue wildebeest, mopane woodland, black wildebeest, mountain zebra, clawless otter, savannah woodland, kori bustard, other grazers, bachelor herds, martial eagle, wildlife experience, right habitat, single calf, white rhino Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Victoria Falls, Zambezi Valley, Makgadikgadi Pans, Okavango Delta, Cape Cross, Cape Town, Lake Kariba, Namib Desert, Skeleton Coast, East Africa, Zambezi River, Benguela Current, Indian Ocean, Karoo National Park, Linyanti Swamps, Cape Vidal, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique Channel, Okavango River, The European, The Nile New!
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For abundance, variety and visibility of wildlife, few places in the world can rival southern Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mixed feeding parties, grey rhebok, common garden bird, mountain reedbuck, red lechwe, moist savannah, red hartebeest, arid savannah, yellow mongoose, bald ibis, brown hyena, blue wildebeest, mopane woodland, black wildebeest, mountain zebra, clawless otter, savannah woodland, kori bustard, other grazers, bachelor herds, martial eagle, wildlife experience, right habitat, single calf, white rhino Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Victoria Falls, Zambezi Valley, Makgadikgadi Pans, Okavango Delta, Cape Cross, Cape Town, Lake Kariba, Namib Desert, Skeleton Coast, East Africa, Zambezi River, Benguela Current, Indian Ocean, Karoo National Park, Linyanti Swamps, Cape Vidal, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique Channel, Okavango River, The European, The Nile New!
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