Larger Mammals of Africa"This guide is a practical companion designed to enable anyone to identify African mammals in the wild. Every species is described (except bats and the very smallest mammals) with details of colour, form, markings, habitat, behaviour, feeding, breeding, calls, social habits, migration and enemies. Distribution maps are provided for all species. All mammals are beautifully and accurately illustrated, each with its own explanatory notes"--Back cover |
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... greyish near the face ; rufous or grey below ; tail olive above , white below . 5. MOUSTACHED MONKEY Cercopithecus cephus Face blue with white chevron on upper lip ; cheeks yellow ; ashy grey below ; tail red or greyish . 6. RED - EARED ...
... greyish near the face ; rufous or grey below ; tail olive above , white below . 5. MOUSTACHED MONKEY Cercopithecus cephus Face blue with white chevron on upper lip ; cheeks yellow ; ashy grey below ; tail red or greyish . 6. RED - EARED ...
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... greyish . Tail entirely white with no terminal tuft . Intraspecific variation : Two well defined races may be distinguished : polykomos ( from Senegal to Sassandra River , Ivory Coast ) , whiskers and around the head greyish , foreparts ...
... greyish . Tail entirely white with no terminal tuft . Intraspecific variation : Two well defined races may be distinguished : polykomos ( from Senegal to Sassandra River , Ivory Coast ) , whiskers and around the head greyish , foreparts ...
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... greyish . Crest well developed , orange or rufous , sometimes blackish . A broad triangular yellowish - buff patch broadening from the middle of the back to the rump , duller in young animals ; hairs erectile often raised in a brush ...
... greyish . Crest well developed , orange or rufous , sometimes blackish . A broad triangular yellowish - buff patch broadening from the middle of the back to the rump , duller in young animals ; hairs erectile often raised in a brush ...
Common terms and phrases
Addax Africa animal baboons band black stripe blackish bright rufous broad brownish buff burrows bush BUSHBUCK bushy Cape Cephalophus Cercopithecus chestnut coat Colobus Congo contrasting crest curved dark brown darker Dassies Dibatag Dik-dik DUIKER Cephalophus ears elongated face feed Female similar flanks forehead Galago Gazelle GENET Genetta Gerenuk Grant's Gazelle grass Greater Kudu grey greyish ground colour Habitat Habits hairs hares Hartebeest head and body Height at shoulder herds High forest horns Hyaena Identification insects Intraspecific variation Kenya Klipspringer Lechwe legs Length without tail lighter limbs live singly male mammals mane Mongoose MONKEY Cercopithecus Mountain Reedbuck muzzle neck nocturnal Oryx potto pure white races reddish Reedbuck ringed rodents Royal Antelope rump Sassandra River savanna short Similar species Sitatunga slender smaller sometimes spots SQUIRREL Steenbok Tail long Tanzania thick throat trees tuft Underparts upperparts Waterbuck weight Whiskers whitish Wild yellowish young Zebra