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 95
... blackish . Habitat : High plateaux . Map , p . 103 . Habits : Active both by day and by night , the Semien Fox lives singly or in pairs , sometimes in small packs . It feeds almost exclusively on rodents , usually caught on the ground ...
... blackish . Habitat : High plateaux . Map , p . 103 . Habits : Active both by day and by night , the Semien Fox lives singly or in pairs , sometimes in small packs . It feeds almost exclusively on rodents , usually caught on the ground ...
Page 101
... blackish patch near the base , and with a conspicuous blackish brown tip . Habitat : Desert country , mainly in sand dunes . Also Arabia . Map , p . 107 . Habits : The Fennec lives in small groups of up to 10 individuals , sheltering in ...
... blackish patch near the base , and with a conspicuous blackish brown tip . Habitat : Desert country , mainly in sand dunes . Also Arabia . Map , p . 107 . Habits : The Fennec lives in small groups of up to 10 individuals , sheltering in ...
Page 253
... blackish band along the middle of the underparts . Legs blackish brown , sometimes darkening to black ; in some individuals the dark colour spreads over the shoulders and meets the dorsal band . Tail with a tuft of mixed white and black ...
... blackish band along the middle of the underparts . Legs blackish brown , sometimes darkening to black ; in some individuals the dark colour spreads over the shoulders and meets the dorsal band . Tail with a tuft of mixed white and black ...
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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