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The gnu's world : Serengeti wildebeest ecology and life history
- Title
- The gnu's world : Serengeti wildebeest ecology and life history / Richard D. Estes.
- Author
- Estes, Richard
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
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| Text | Request in advance | QL737.U53 E88 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 351 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The author's fifty-year history of wildebeest research -- Africa : the real home where antelopes roam -- African savannahs : understandigng the tropical climate, vegetation, and the gnu's ecological niche -- Introducing the wildebeest's tribe : similarities and differences among the four genera and sven species -- The four wildebeest subspecies and the status of migratory populations -- Increase and protection of the Serengeti wildebeest population -- Serengeti grasslands and the wildebeest migration -- Social organization : comparison of migratory and resident populations -- Male and female life histories -- Cooperation and competition among twenty-seven ungulates that coexist with the wildebeest -- The amazing migration and rut of the Serengeti wildebeest -- The calving season : birth and survival in small herds and on calving grounds -- Serengeti shall not die? : Africa's most iconic World Heritage site under siege.
- ISBN
- 9780520273184 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520273184 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520273191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0520273192 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013031723
- 40023618580
- OCLC
- ocn856861206
- 856861206
- SCSB-5745605
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries