The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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The essential mammal guide to take on safari, covering every African land mammal. Originally published in 2004, the Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals quickly became the field guide of choice to take on African safaris. Its compact format makes it ideal for use in the field, while its coverage is the most comprehensive currently possible in this format. Adapted from the Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals, the greatly condensed text focuses on essential information such as identification and distribution, while the author's superb illustrations have been rearranged into an easy-to-use plate format and placed opposite the text. Complex and more obscure groups like the bats and certain rodent families are summarised by genera. Over 500 maps plot the distribution of all larger species, and for smaller mammals the maps show distribution by genus. This is a completely revised second edition of this popular guide. The information and taxonomy have been updated to follow the newly published second edition of the Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (2015), and this new edition of the pocket guide contains several new species and illustrations. The maps have been completely replaced and there are now 200 more maps than in the original edition.

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Excellent, comprehensive field guide so you can tell your puku from your lechwe. * BBC Wildlife *

Author Bio

Jonathan Kingdon is one of the foremost authorities on African Mammals and an acclaimed artist. His many books include the bestselling Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (2nd edition 2015) and he was the founder and senior editor of the award-winning 6-volume series Mammals of Africa, both published by Bloomsbury.