Title: Carnivores
Subtitle: Quick ID guide to Africa's predatory mammals
Author: Chris Stuart; Mathilde Stuart
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Struik Nature
Cape Town, South Africa 2022
ISBN 9781775847915 / ISBN 978-1-77-584791-5
Softcover, 10 x 18 cm, 40 pages, throughout colour photographs
Of all the animal groups, none looms larger in the imagination than the carnivores. Adapted for hunting and killing other animals, they represent the most powerful predators on Earth. Carnivores: Quick ID guide to Africa's predatory mammals covers both the mighty and ferocious, big cats, wolves, foxes and hyaenas, and a variety of smaller but equally formidable hunters, otters, polecats, weasels, mongooses and civets. Features include key ID points, behaviours and diet of each species, special adaptations for hunting live prey, annotated colour photographs, distribution maps and rare and elusive species.
Introduction
DOGS Canidae
African wild dog
Ethiopian wolf
African golden wolf
Black-backed jackal
Side-striped jackal
Bat-eared fox
True Foxes
MUSTELIDS Mustelldae
Cape clawless otter
Spotted-necked otter & Eurasian otter
Zorilla (Striped polecat) & Saharan striped polecat
European polecat
Marbled polecat
Least weasel & Egyptian weasel
African striped weasel
Honey badger (Ratel)
CATS Felidae
Lion
Leopard
Cheetah
Caracal
African golden cat
Serval
African wild cat
Swamp cat
Small-spotted cat
Sand cat
MONGOOSES Herpestidae
Suricate
Yellow mongoose
Banded mongoose
Gambian mongoose
Liberian mongoose
Common cusimanse
Common dwarf mongoose & Somali dwarf mongoose
Pousargues's mongoose
Black-legged mongoose
Selous's mongoose
Small grey mongoose
Slender mongoose
Large grey mongoose
Water mongoose
Long-nosed mongoose
Meller's mongoose
White-tailed mongoose
HYAENAS & AARDWOLF Hyaenidae
Spotted hyaena
Striped hyaena
Brown hyaena
Aardwolf
PALM CIVET Nandiniidae
African palm civet
CIVETS & GENETS Viverridae
African civet
Genets