Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Travellers and students of wildlife should take notice--this volume sets the standard for the field... A childhood in British East Africa and more than 25 years of producing atlases of the mammals have equipped Kingdon with a possibly unrivaled knowledge of his subjects, and this yields unusual and thought-provoking insights... As an artist and sculptor who works in abstract, impressionistic and illustrative styles, Kingdon brings an immediacy to his drawings that escapes all other field guides... The 1150 or so mammals that earn a place in his book are not just represented by the usual police-style profiles, but also by pictures of gripping emotion and playful naughtiness--usually several, sometimes many, for each species... Buy this book for yourself and for anyone else who likes nature just to know that you possess several thousand of Kingdon's wonderful drawings... This is quite simply a superb and authoritative work by an author of unsurpassed credentials and talent for his task. Everybody will delight in it. -- Mark Pagel, Nature For anyone planning an African safari, this guide should be as essential as binoculars. -- David Tomlinson, New Scientist All naturalists resident in or visiting the continent should have a copy. It is much more than a field guide. -- Jeremy J D Greenwood, Habitat A good field guide, whatever its subject, is a delight to have on one's bookshelf, and this one is a topper. One main, magnificent first for this guide is that it covers all known mammals of Africa, not just the large ones. This is an exquisite book to have, even if you have no intention to ever visit Africa (but then you are likely to change your mind after this Kingdon experience). -- Hans Kruuk, Mammal News Since the appearance of his seven-volume encyclopaedia of East African mammals in the 1970's, Kingdon has become a figure of high distinction in conservationist circles. His extraordinary talents as a writer and painter have been dedicated to astonishingly beautiful and detailed records of African fauna and the ecosystems that sustain them. This makes his new field guide rather more than a handbook... The richness of information is exemplary. The illustrations would make a big cat purr... It is one of Kingdon's strengths, both as a naturalist and as an artist, that he is interested in how animals look and feel to each other... His drawings and paintings stress the elegant functionality of body geometry, the way animals use facial and body patterns for visual signalling. -- John Ryle, Guardian This is a handy, nicely prepared pocket field guide covering every species of terrestrial African mammal and is the essential reference work to be carried along by anyone traveling in Africa. -- ert E. Hoopes," Wildlife Activist -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

This is a complete guide to the mammal fauna of Africa. Covering all known species (around 460), this guide will enable identification of all land mammals likely to be seen anywhere in Africa. Detailed accounts, with colour illustrations, are provided for most species, but some complex small mammal groups are summarized by genera. The colour illustrations show both sexes in sexually dimorphic species, and there are also a wealth of line drawings illustrating typical behaviours, the function of camouflaged or disruptive markings and the details of interspecific variation among closely allied species. Distribution maps show the ranges of most species covered.