Behaviour briefs: Quick guide to southern and East African animal behaviour

Why do they do that and what next? Behaviour briefs is a quick guide to southern and East African animal behaviour.
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Title: Behaviour briefs
Subtitle: Quick guide to southern and East African animal behaviour
Author: Chris Stuart; Mathilde Stuart
Genre: Animal behaviour
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Nature
Cape Town, South Africa 2014
ISBN 9781775840190 / ISBN 978-1-77584-019-0
Softcover, 10 x 18 cm, 40 pages, throughout colour photographs

Description:

Behaviour briefs, a short guide to animal behaviour, discusses the mammal species and behaviours you are most likely to encounter in the game parks of southern and East Africa. It is brief and will, we hope, whet your appetite for understanding what you see and interpreting the 'signposts' mammals leave. It's also worth reading Wild Ways by Peter Apps and The Behavior Guide to African Mammals by Richard Estes. On the subject of 'signposts', consult the authors' Field Guide to the Tracks & Signs of Southern, Central & East African Wildlife. Evolution selects for behaviour that improves the survival chances of the individual and so the species as a whole. Producing offspring is only the start - these young must live and, in turn, breed to ensure the long-term survival of their species. The challenge of all life is to feed, find a mate, breed, raise the young - ad infinitum. Why do animals behave as they do? The reasons can be categorised under one of the following headings:

• Maintaining and defending a territory or home range
• Attracting mates and breeding
• Keeping opposition away
• Social interaction
• Feeding
• Personal hygiene

Description: Behaviour briefs: Quick guide to southern and East African animal behaviour

Introduction
Savanna elephant
Rhinoceros
Lion
Leopard
Cheetah
Black-backed jackal
Banded mongoose
Suricate
Dwarf mongoose
Savanna baboon
Vervet monkey
Thick-tailed brown galago
Giraffe
Plains zebra
Nyala
Uganda kob
Oryx/Gemsbok & Sable antelope
Greater kudu & Bushbuck
Springbok & Thomson's gazelle
Gerenuk & Impala
Wildebeest
Red hartebeest
Topi/Tsessebe
Waterbuck
Blesbok
Eland
Dwarf antelope
Warthog
Buffalo
Hippopotamus
Hyrax/Dassie
Ground squirrel
Cape fur seal
Glossary