A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of AfricaPractical recognition manual for nonspecialists, with interest for traveling or stay-at-home wildlife enthusiasts. |
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Page 76
... white monkey , heavily built , with long glossy hair on the upperparts , with no long haired mantle around the back ( unlike the Guereza Colobus ) . Naked face slaty black . General colour jet black . Whiskers pure white or greyish ...
... white monkey , heavily built , with long glossy hair on the upperparts , with no long haired mantle around the back ( unlike the Guereza Colobus ) . Naked face slaty black . General colour jet black . Whiskers pure white or greyish ...
Page 77
... white hairs on shoulders well developed , a white band on buttocks , the distal half of the tail bushy and white ... pure white mantle , extending on the sides from shoulders to root of tail around the upperparts . On the buttocks , a ...
... white hairs on shoulders well developed , a white band on buttocks , the distal half of the tail bushy and white ... pure white mantle , extending on the sides from shoulders to root of tail around the upperparts . On the buttocks , a ...
Page 79
... pure white . Tail rather thick , moderately long . Intraspecific variation : This species is highly variable and perhaps should be split into several species according to coloration , pattern and shape of the whirls on sides of head ...
... pure white . Tail rather thick , moderately long . Intraspecific variation : This species is highly variable and perhaps should be split into several species according to coloration , pattern and shape of the whirls on sides of head ...
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Addax Africa animal backwards band black stripe blackish body bright rufous broad brownish buff burrows bush Bushbuck bushy Cephalophus chestnut coat Colobus Congo contrasting crest curved dark brown darker dense Dibatag Dik-dik Dorcas Gazelle DUIKER Cephalophus ears elongated feed Female similar flanks forehead Galago Gazelle Gerenuk Grant's Gazelle grass grazers Greater Kudu grey greyish Grysbok Habitat Habits hairs Hartebeest head Height at shoulder herds High forest hooves horns Hyaena Identification Impala Intraspecific variation Klipspringer Kudu large antelope Lechwe legs Length without tail lighter limbs live singly male mane Mongoose monkey Mountain Reedbuck muzzle neck nocturnal Oribi Oryx pure white races Red-fronted Gazelle reddish Redunca Reedbuck Royal Antelope rufous fawn rump savanna season short Similar species Sitatunga slender smaller sometimes Southern Reedbuck spots SQUIRREL Steenbok Tail long thick throat trees tuft upperparts Waterbuck weight white patch whitish yellowish young Zebra