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Wild About the Okavango: All-In-One Guide to Common Animals and Plants of the Okavango Delta, Chobe and East Caprivi (Wild About: Field Guide to Common Animals & Plants)

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This book is a 1995 edition; in 2000 it was republished as Wildlife of the Okavango: Common Plants and Animals. There is no apparent difference other than the publisher and the cover. Same 126 pages. Compact, well organized. Starts with descriptions of the different types of habitats in the Okavango, then color codes animals to these habitats. Four animals per page, with a small photo and a small paragraph. There are minor shortcomings that I have noticed--Nile monitor is called a water monitor, Luna Moth is called a Lunar Moth. No Latin names. Ants are described as "tiny gregarious creatures," and if those are the only kind of ants I see I will be disappointed, as the Okavango should also have big termite-raiding Pachycondyla analis and maybe driver ants. It is small enough to fit in a vest pocket and will be easy to carry on safari. Good for identification in the field. The many photos of birds may be especially useful. Might check names and pictures against another reference afterward. I purchased this via Amazon from a used book dealer, book_logic_usa, who advertised its condition as "very good." Not realizing it was the same book, I also bought the 2000 edition from gsuter6 of Shawnee, Kansas, who advertised it as "good" condition, and gsuter6's "good" turned out to be much better than book_logic_usa's "very good."