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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Page 205
... chestnut ; sometimes bright golden chestnut ; horns less massive , shorter , and less curved . Calf fawn - coloured , with indistinct facial markings . Similar species : May be confused with the Roan , but distinguished by its black ...
... chestnut ; sometimes bright golden chestnut ; horns less massive , shorter , and less curved . Calf fawn - coloured , with indistinct facial markings . Similar species : May be confused with the Roan , but distinguished by its black ...
Page 212
... chestnut fulvous or blackish . No pronounced head markings , only a faint whitish stripe over the eye . Underparts from chin to belly white , sharply set off from the colour of the upperparts . Conspicuous black markings running down ...
... chestnut fulvous or blackish . No pronounced head markings , only a faint whitish stripe over the eye . Underparts from chin to belly white , sharply set off from the colour of the upperparts . Conspicuous black markings running down ...
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... chestnut all over , somewhat paler on the underparts . Crest long , mixed chestnut and black , sometimes pure chestnut . Chin and upper throat whitish . Tail short , rufous at its base , with a well developed tuft of mixed black and ...
... chestnut all over , somewhat paler on the underparts . Crest long , mixed chestnut and black , sometimes pure chestnut . Chin and upper throat whitish . Tail short , rufous at its base , with a well developed tuft of mixed black and ...
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