A field guide to the larger mammals of Tanzania / Charles Foley [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foley, Charles, author.

Series:

WildGuides.

WildGuides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mammals--Africa--Identification.

Mammals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Home to the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania offers some of the finest big game watching in the world, from elephants and rhinos to chimpanzees and lions. This field guide covers all the larger mammals of Tanzania, including marine mammals and some newly discovered species. Detailed accounts are provided for more than 135 species, along with color photos, color illustrations of marine mammals, and distribution maps. Accounts for land species give information on identification, subspecies, similar species, ecology, behavior, distribution, conservation status, and where best to see each species. The guide also features plates with side-by-side photographic comparisons of species that are easily confused, as well as first-time-ever species checklists for every national park. The definitive, most up-to-date field guide to the larger mammals of Tanzania, including marine mammals Features detailed species accounts and numerous color photos throughout Provides tips on where to see each species Includes species checklists for every national park

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Conservation in Tanzania

How to use this book

Watching mammals in Tanzania

Tanzania's major vegetation types

Overview of mammalian families included in the book

THE SPECIES ACCOUNTS

AARDVARK: Tubulidentata

ELEPHANT-SHREWS: Macroscelidea

HYRAXES: Hyracoidea

ELEPHANT: Proboscidea

PRIMATES: Primates

RODENTS: Rodentia

HARES AND RABBITS: Lagomorpha

HEDGEHOGS: Erinaceomorpha

PANGOLINS: Pholidota

CARNIVORES: Carnivora

ODD-TOED UNGULATES: Perissodactyla

EVEN-TOED UNGULATES: Artiodactyla

DUGONG: Sirenia

CETACEANS: Cetacea

National Parks and major protected areas of Tanzania

Glossary

Photographic credits

Recommended further reading and references

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4008-5280-3

OCLC:

880058238