Field guide to the larger mammals of Africa /
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| Language: | English |
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Cape Town :
Struik,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- How to use this field guide
- Family introductions
- Key to colour coding.
- Order primates
- Pottos, galagos and bushbabies (family lorisidae)
- Baboons and monkeys (family cercopithecidae)
- Chimpanzee, bonobo and gorilla (family pongidae)
- Order perissodactyla
- Zebras and wild ass (family equidae)
- Rhinoceroses (family rhinocerotidae)
- Order artiodactyla
- Pigs and hogs (family suidae)
- Hippopotamuses (family hippopotamidae)
- Giraffe and okapi (family giraffidae)
- Deer (family cervidae)
- Chevrotain (family tragulidae).
- Buffalo and antelope (family bovidae)
- Buffalo (subfamily bovinae)
- Spiral-horned antelope: eland, bongo, kudu, nyala, sitatunga and bushbuck (subfamily tragelaphinae)
- Addax, oryx, roan and sable (subfamily hippotraginae)
- Waterbuck, kob, puku, lechwe, reebuck (subfamily reduncinae)
- Grey rhebok (subfamily peleinae)
- Hartebeest, tsessebe/topi, bontebok/blesbok and wildebeest (subfamily alcelaphinae)
- Impala (subfamily aepycerotinae)
- Gazelles and dwarf antelope (subfamily antilopinae).
- Duikers (subfamily cephalophinae)
- Goat antelopes (goats and sheep)(subfamily caprinae)
- Order proboscidea
- Elephants (family elephantidae)
- Order Carnivora
- Foxes, Jackals and wild dog (family canidae)
- Otters, weasels, polecat and badger (family mustelidae)
- Civets, genets and mongooses (family viverridae)
- Hyaenas and aardwolf (families hyaenidae and protelidae)
- Cats (family felidae)
- Order hyracoidea
- Hyraxes (dassies)(family Procaviidae)
- Order Tubulidentata.
- Aardvark (family orycteropodidae)
- Order pholidota
- Pangolins (family manidae)
- Order insectivora
- Hedgehogs (family erinaceidae)
- Order Lagomorpha
- Hares and Rabbits (family leporidae)
- Order Rodentia
- Springhare (family pedetidae)
- Squirrels (family sciuridae)
- Porcupines (family hystricidae).