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The Safari Companion - A Guide to Watching African Mammals Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates (Paperback, Revised and expanded edition) Loot Price: R623
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The Safari Companion - A Guide to Watching African Mammals Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates (Paperback, Revised and expanded edition)

Richard D. Estes; Illustrated by Daniel Otte; Foreword by Kathryn S. Fuller

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The Safari Companion has become a Chelsea Green best seller and paved the way for the company's entry into the exciting world of eco-travel. Here's a new edition, revised and expanded, of the definitive guide to watching the behavior or African mammals.

New chapters include:
-- Social and Mating Systems of African Mammals. This chapter defines and explains the various forms by which researchers have described animal social organization. Contains concise and orderly tables that help with the understanding of most basic behaviors.
-- An Animal Behavior Primer. This section describes behaviors in categories and sub-categories, making for quick field reference.

The Safari Companion is an indispensible tool for safari travelers to Africa or zoo-lovers anywhere. It will help expert and neophyte better understand the lives and interactions of the animals they observe.

Richared D. Estes has led wildlife-viewing safaris in Africa for many years, and is one of the world's foremost experts on the social ecology of African mammals. Dr. Estes is an Associate Professor of Mammalogy at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and the chairman of the World Conservation Union's Antelope Specialists' Group. He lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

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Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2013
First published: December 1999
Authors: Richard D. Estes
Illustrators: Daniel Otte
Foreword by: Kathryn S. Fuller
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 456
Edition: Revised and expanded edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-890132-44-6
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Vertebrates > Mammals > General
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LSN: 1-890132-44-6
Barcode: 9781890132446

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