Southern African Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide

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ISBN-10: 1841620602

ISBN-13: 9781841620602

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Table of Contents

Impressions

Introduction

Habitats

Mammals

Birds

Reptiles and amphibians

Invertebrates

Tracks and signs

Making the most of it

Where to go

Further reading/Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Mike Unwin divides his time between editing natural history books, writing, photography and illustration. He has previously lived in both Zimbabwe and Swaziland, which have acted as a base, enabling him to explore Southern Africa in depth.

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"Leaving camp before dawn, you follow an old elephant trail deep into the bush, shouldering through the clutching thorns and dew-laden cobwebs. Night lingers in the soft mechanical ‘prrp’ of a scops owl and the quavering fragility of a fiery-necked nightjar, but the pale eastern glow prompts a clamour of francolins and the eerie wail of returning jackals. First light, slanting across the trail, picks out the imprint of its nocturnal commuters: everywhere the neat cloven signature of impala – here overlaid with the firm stamp of zebra, there embroidered with a genet’s tiny-pawed motif."

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