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 198
... hooves are highly adapted to support the animals on the soft , boggy soil and marsh vegetation without sinking deeply into the ground ; the flexibility of the ankle - joints and the naked horny skin at the back of the pasterns enables ...
... hooves are highly adapted to support the animals on the soft , boggy soil and marsh vegetation without sinking deeply into the ground ; the flexibility of the ankle - joints and the naked horny skin at the back of the pasterns enables ...
Page 214
... hooves may be considered as an adaptation to this particular habitat as may the hairlessness of the skin of the pastern . If disturbed , they cannot run very fast on dry ground ; they take refuge in shallows and are well able to swim ...
... hooves may be considered as an adaptation to this particular habitat as may the hairlessness of the skin of the pastern . If disturbed , they cannot run very fast on dry ground ; they take refuge in shallows and are well able to swim ...
Page 266
... hooves ) . Steenbok is somewhat larger and lacks the admixture of white hairs ( no false hooves ) . Oribi is larger and has a different colour , a longer tail with a black tuft , smaller oval - shaped ears , and a bare patch below the ...
... hooves ) . Steenbok is somewhat larger and lacks the admixture of white hairs ( no false hooves ) . Oribi is larger and has a different colour , a longer tail with a black tuft , smaller oval - shaped ears , and a bare patch below the ...
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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