A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Tanzania / / Charles Foley, Lara Foley, Alex Lobora, Daniela De Luca, Maurus Msuha, Tim R.B. Davenport, Sarah M. Durant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Foley, Charles,; Davenport, Tim R.B.,; Durant, Sarah M.,; Foley, Lara,; Lobora, Alex,; Msuha, Maurus,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: WILDGuides ; 93
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 300 color illus. 140 maps.

Home to the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania offers some of the finest big game watching in the world, from elephants and rhinos to chimpanzees and lions. This field guide covers all the larger mammals of Tanzania, including marine mammals and some newly discovered species. Detailed accounts are provided for more than 135 species, along with color photos, color illustrations of marine mammals, and distribution maps. Accounts for land species give information on identification, subspecies, similar species, ecology, behavior, distribution, conservation status, and where best to see each species. The guide also features plates with side-by-side photographic comparisons of species that are easily confused, as well as first-time-ever species checklists for every national park.The definitive, most up-to-date field guide to the larger mammals of Tanzania, including marine mammalsFeatures detailed species accounts and numerous color photos throughoutProvides tips on where to see each speciesIncludes species checklists for every national park

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Conservation in Tanzania -- How to use this book -- Watching mammals in Tanzania -- Tanzania's major vegetation types -- Overview of mammalian families included in the book -- THE SPECIES ACCOUNTS -- AARDVARK: Tubulidentata -- ELEPHANT-SHREWS: Macroscelidea -- HYRAXES: Hyracoidea -- ELEPHANT: Proboscidea -- PRIMATES: Primates -- RODENTS: Rodentia -- HARES AND RABBITS: Lagomorpha -- HEDGEHOGS: Erinaceomorpha -- PANGOLINS: Pholidota -- CARNIVORES: Carnivora -- ODD-TOED UNGULATES: Perissodactyla -- EVEN-TOED UNGULATES: Artiodactyla -- DUGONG: Sirenia -- CETACEANS: Cetacea -- CARNIVORES: Carnivora -- National Parks and major protected areas of Tanzania -- Glossary -- Photographic credits -- Recommended further reading and references -- Index