Chris Stuart

IntroductionOne of the main attractions of southern, central and east Africa is the great variety of game species and the impressively large herds which throng the open plains in many of its protected areas. Who could fail to be awed by the masses of migrating Blue Wildebeest at Serengeti, the...

Acknowledgements A book of this nature is, of necessity, a compilation not only of the work of the authors but also that of the countless field workers and observers who have published their findings, or deposited specimens in museums. We hope that this guide will be a credit to the hundreds of...

Introduction Compared with the birds (8 900 species) or the fish (30 000 species) the mammal group is a small one. It contains between 4 000 and 4 500 living species, of which some 337 species are currently known to occur in the Southern African Subreglon. Some of these, however, are known from...