Title: Skullduggery
Subtitle: Quick ID guide to southern and East African mammal skulls
Author: Chris Stuart; Mathilde Stuart
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Nature
Cape Town, South Africa 2021
ISBN 9781775847267 / ISBN 978-1-77-584726-7
Softcover, 10 x 18 cm, 40 pages, throughout colour photographs
Skullduggery: Quick ID guide to southern and East African mammal skulls turns mammal ID on its head, literally. The identification of mammal skulls is the subject of this latest addition to the quirky ‘Quick Guide’ series, and covers the most common skulls readers are likely to encounter in the wild, from easily recognisable species such as elephant, hippo, rhino, baboons, antelope, whales and dolphins, to the more challenging family groups: dogs, cats, hyaenas, equids, pigs, civets and genets, mongooses, rats and mice, bats, sengis, shrews, moles, hares and rabbits, hyrax, and squirrels. Each entry features close-up photographs showing the entire skull, teeth and, where available, upper and lower jaws, pointers to diagnostic features, average measurement for skull length, short description highlighting main features of each skull and tooth structure, dental formula for teeth in upper and lower jaws, a brief introduction, with labelled photographs, it covers anatomy as well as dentition, and a quick-reference photographic key to the main animal groups appears on the inside front cover.
Introduction
Dentition and dental formula
Galagos (Bushbabies)
Baboons
Monkeys
Chimpanzees
Equids - Zebras
Rhinos
Common hippopotamus
Pigs
Antelope
Elephant
Canids - Dogs
Mustelids
Civets and genets
Mongooses
Hyaenas and aardwolf
Felids - Cats
Whales and dolphins
Seals
Hyraxes
Aardvark and pangolins
Sengis
Golden moles
Shrews
Hares and rabbits
Springhares
Squirrels
Mole-rats
Rats and mice
Porcupine
Cane-rats
Bats
Glossary