Wild Ways: Field Guide to the Behaviour of Southern African Mammals - Softcover

Apps, Peter

 
9781868724437: Wild Ways: Field Guide to the Behaviour of Southern African Mammals
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1868724433 ISBN 13: 9781868724437
Verlag: Struik Publishers, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Tens of thousands of visitors to game parks and reserves, hikers, hunters, farmers and other outdoor people have opportunities to observe the behaviour of these mammals. "Wild Ways" brings together the fascinating information on what animals do and why they do it. The first section introduces the concepts of ethology, the science of animal behaviour, traces its development and the techniques that have been evolved to tackle the formidable problems of working on animals in the wild. The 117 species accounts describe the behaviour of mammals from hedgehogs to hares, baboons to pangolins, dassies to aardvarks, lions to rats, whales to tsessebe and even fruit bats. The reader needs no special knowledge of zoology or animal behaviour to understand and enjoy this guide - technical jargon is avoided and ethological terms are explained in the text and in a glossary.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Apps began his studies of animal behaviour at the University of Oxford before moving to South Africa in 1979. He has worked from England to Antarctica on species ranging from insects to elephants. His special interests are the behaviour of small carnivores and the role of chemical communication in mammal social behaviour. He works as Senior Researcher at the Paul G Allen Family Foundation Laboratory for Wildlife Chemistry, in Botswana. Editor of Smithers' Mammals of Southern Africa: A Field Guide, he has also written numerous scientific papers and magazine articles.

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Verlag
Struik Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1868724433
ISBN 13 
9781868724437
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
198
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