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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... short stocky legs , a short rat - like tail , clothed with coarse , bristly and even spiny hairs , looking like short soft quills . General coloration speckled brown or buffy above , paler on flanks , greyish or whitish below . They ...
... short stocky legs , a short rat - like tail , clothed with coarse , bristly and even spiny hairs , looking like short soft quills . General coloration speckled brown or buffy above , paler on flanks , greyish or whitish below . They ...
Page 96
... short , light grey above , mostly black below ; black limbs . 4. MELLER'S MONGOOSE Rhynchogale melleri Uniform ... Short - legged ; short face ; uniform dark brown ; tail proportionately short . page 121 117 117 118 120 SMALLER MONGOOSES ...
... short , light grey above , mostly black below ; black limbs . 4. MELLER'S MONGOOSE Rhynchogale melleri Uniform ... Short - legged ; short face ; uniform dark brown ; tail proportionately short . page 121 117 117 118 120 SMALLER MONGOOSES ...
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... short tail . General colour grizzled sandy fawn with no conspicuous markings . Ears red brown with long black hairs at their tips . Face lighter with a brown lacrymal stripe . Dorsal line more richly coloured reddish . Sides of body ...
... short tail . General colour grizzled sandy fawn with no conspicuous markings . Ears red brown with long black hairs at their tips . Face lighter with a brown lacrymal stripe . Dorsal line more richly coloured reddish . Sides of body ...
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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