East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume 3, Part B: Large MammalsUniversity of Chicago Press, 29 בדצמ׳ 1988 - 450 עמודים Acclaimed and coveted by both naturalists and lovers of wildlife illustration, Jonathan Kingdon's seven-volume East African Mammals has become a classic of modern natural history. This paperback edition makes Kingdon's remarkable artistic and scientific achievement—his hundreds of drawings and perceptive study of all the mammals in East Africa's species-rich fauna—available to the wide audience it deserves. Volume IIIB celebrates the large mammals for which the African plains are so famous—elephants, rhinos, zebras, bushpigs, and warthogs, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains, giraffes. Kingdon brings his artist's eye to such puzzles as the zebra's stripes and the giraffe's spots, making original observations throughout the seven volumes about the evolutionary and functional significance of coat color, facial expressions, and curious forms and markings. The beauty of the animals, so vivid in these incomparable drawings, is made more poignant by the acknowledgment of their increasingly endangered status. Kingdon discusses the inevitable problems posed by large mammal communities in a developing continent and includes numerous maps indicating their declining ranges and populations. |
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PROBOSCIDS Proboscidea | 8 |
ELEPHANTIDS Elephantidae | 18 |
Elephant Loxodonta africana | 30 |
PERISSODACTYLS Perissodactyla | 76 |
CERATOMORPHS Ceratomorpha etc | 80 |
Black rhinoceros Browse rhinoceros Diceros bicornis | 92 |
White rhinocerus Grass rhinocerus Ceratotherium simum | 106 |
EQUIDS Equidae | 120 |
Warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus | 228 |
HIPPOPOTAMIDS Hippopotamidae | 248 |
Hippopotamus Hippo Hippopotamus amphibius | 254 |
TYLOPODA | 276 |
Camel Dromedary Camelus dromedarius | 278 |
CHEVROTAINS Tragulidae | 293 |
Water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus | 296 |
GIRAFFIDS Giraffidae | 306 |
Horses Zebras and Asses Equus | 125 |
Grevys zebra Somali zebra Equus grevyi | 144 |
Ass Donkey Equus asinus no text | 160 |
Common zebra Painted quagga Equus quagga | 161 |
ARTIODACTYLS Artiodactyla | 178 |
PIGS Suidae | 182 |
Bushpig River hog Potamochoerus porcus | 198 |
Giant hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni | 208 |
Giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis | 311 |
Okapi Okapia johnstoni | 337 |
APPENDIX | 344 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 345 |
SYSTEMATIC INDEX | 409 |
415 | |
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Acacia adapted adult males African elephant amphibius animals areas artiodactyls behaviour black rhinoceros bull bushpigs calves camels Ceratotherium chevrotain common zebra density Diceros distribution dominant dry season Dubost dung East Africa ecological equids Equus quagga evolution feeding female fighting foal forest fossil function giant hogs giraffe grass grazing Grevy's zebra grooming habitats head herbivores herd hippopotamus hippos Hist horns horses hyaenas Hylochoerus incisors individuals ivory Kenya Klingel large mammals legs London Loxodonta Loxodonta africana Maglio Mammalia mammals mare Miocene molar mother Nairobi National Park neck numbers oestrus okapi Owen-Smith pattern perissodactyl Phacochoerus pigs Pleistocene Pliocene population Potamochoerus predators probably proboscids Proc range recorded relatively reproductive rhinos ritualized Säugetierk scent Serengeti skull snout social sounders species sq km stallions stripes Tanzania teeth territorial trees trunk Tsavo Tsavo National Park tusks Uganda ungulates vegetation warthog wild Wildl Wildlife young Zool