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The kingdon field guide to African mammals / Jonathan Kingdon.
LIBRA QL731.A1 K56 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kingdon, Jonathan, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mammals--Africa--Identification.
- Mammals.
- Mammals--Africa--Pictorial works.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works
- Field guides
- Guidebooks
- Physical Description:
- 640 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Field guide to African mammals
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals is the essential companion for anyone going on safari or interested in African mammals-no other field guide covers the whole continent in a portable format. Now fully revised and updated, it covers all known species of African land mammals and features more than 500 stunning color illustrations. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, distribution, habitat, food, behavior, adaptations, and conservation status. Coverage of several of the more complex groups of small mammals is simplified by reference to genera, and there are introductory profiles of each mammal group and more than 500 maps. This new edition includes many newly recognized species, and classification has been fully updated. Written and illustrated by a world authority, The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals is a must-have guide for travelers and armchair naturalists alike. Covers more than 1,100 species Features more than 500 color illustrations Describes key identification features, distribution, habitat, food, behavior, adaptations, and status Includes many newly recognized species, and classification has been fully updated.
- Contents:
- Naming and mapping species
- Using this guide
- Finding and recording mammals
- African environment
- The past
- Physical landscape
- climate
- Vegetation
- Profiles of all mammal species
- Conservation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 624) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691164533
- 0691164533
- OCLC:
- 894625393
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