The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates

I purchased this following my earlier purchase of Estes’s The Behaviour Guide to African Mammals to further my understanding of the animals I might expect to see on my safari trip to Botswana. I would recommend both books as being a serious study of the subject. The text is comprehensive and the line drawings for information rather than pictures for species identification. Not really a guide for immediate identification though the text would help you decide between similar animals. I felt the author really knew his subject and found the book a valuable detailed text on the subject. Not a flick though book. You would need to invest some time to get the most out of it.

My friends took this guide with them for a 6 month camping tour of Africa and said that it never left their side. It was a great quick access guide or general reading for days after animal spotting. Highly recommended.

Quite intreresting reading with lots of details about animals, especially for first time 'safari' goers in Africa. However since it covers Eastern and Southern Africa from just north of the Equator in Uganda and Kenya, and all the way down south, the book is perhaps too big, comprehensive and heavy, if one is just visiting a game park in f.ex South Africa or Kenya. In that case more suitable books are to be found. This book is perhaps most suitable for 'arm-chair reading' instead of carrying along on a single 'safari', since it is too comprehensive for that purpose. Instead of photos it contains drawings.

Not much more info than in Jonathan Scotts safari guide to East African animals. Buy The behavior guide to African mammals instead, my recommendations.

my nephew was in Africa for a year ( 2015) training to be a field guide and ranger.This book was a gift from me,and in the weeks that preceded his departure, it was this book, out of many others, that he selected to take with him.as he came back uneaten by lions and in one piece I consider that a pretty good endorsement and would recomend

This book is worth its weight for those who safari and want to know more about what they are seeing. All my guides rate it too.

An indispensable guide for anyone planning a safari. Highly recommended.

Quite dull reading. May be more suited to the seasoned safari goer, not for a first timer.

Genial compra como manual de consulta donde podras tener la posición corporal de algunso de los comprotamientos de los animales mamiferos africanos. Esta como complementod e otras guias de identificacion de fauna y no necesitaras nada mas.

Das beste Buch das ich kenne um das Verhalten von Afrikas Tieren zu bestimmen. Habe seit 1989 diverse gehabt und war in unterschiedlichen Ländern Afrikas unterwegs um zu fotografieren und Tiere zu erleben. Dieses Buch hat mir geholfen diverse Situationen in denen Tiere scheinbar etwas belangloses machen als wichtig zu erkennen und deren Verhalten besser interpretieren zu können. Ein absolutes muss für Menschen die sich tatsächlich für Tierverhalten interessieren und etwas mehr wollen als Schnappschüsse mit Ihrer Kamera.

More then a simple field guide, this book focuses on East African mammalian behavior and social organizations. Much contemporary research on mammalian behavior informs the chapters. Line drawings take the place of the color photographs (that you would find in many other guides), which give it a nice retro feel. Nevertheless, it has a modern organizational schema with lots of boldfaced subheading and bullet points which make it easy to find information quickly. There are icon-based labels that allows the reader to identify the characteristics of each species social organization. Descriptions of social organization, play, courtship behaviors, territoriality, parenting patterns allow observers to interpret their observations in the field while on safari. It's like having a naturalist along with you, pointing out the subtleties of animal behaviors and communication.In some parts of the book, there is specific information about wildlife populations. For example, in the section on Spotted Hyenas, the author reports data from one female that was tracked with a radio collar in the Ngorongoro Crater, noting how starkly different the level of activity necessary to find food was compared to hyenas in Kalhari Gemsbock National Park, where food is harder to come by. This level of scientific detail nicely complements the comprehensive descriptions of each species life and environment.I ended buying this after borrowing it from my local library. I also purchased a Princeton Pocket Guide to Wildlife of East Africa by Withers and Hosking full of colored photos - mostly because of its vast listing of birds that are not in the Safari Companion. The Princeton Guide also has photos of many reptiles. It is clear that I will learn the most from the Safari Companion, however.

Mehr als ein Erkennungsbuch für Tiere im südlichen Afrika.Empfehlenswert für Wiederholungstäter in afrikanischen Game Parks.

Ho comprato questo prodotto per mio fratello visto che dovrà fare un viaggio in africa nei prossimi mesi, la scelta è ricaduta su questo libro dato che non ci sono molti libri che spiegano bene la natura dell'africa per il viaggiatore (la scelta è stata aiutata anche dal fatto che diversi blog lo consigliavano) devo dire che è un libro molto specifico, ogni razza animale viene descritta con minuzia di particolari, non ci sono foto ma solo disegni ben fatti.lo consiglio ai veri appassionati di natura africana, per un viaggiatore consiglierei qualcosa di più leggero e sintetico