Skullduggery: Quick ID guide to southern and East African mammal skulls, by Chris and Mathilde Stuart.
Skullduggery: Quick ID guide to southern and East African mammal skulls, by Chris and Mathilde Stuart. Penguin Random House South Africa, Imprint: Struik Nature. Cape Town, South Africa 2021. ISBN 9781775847267 / ISBN 978-1-77-584726-7
Skullduggery: Quick ID guide to southern and East African mammal skulls, by Chris and Mathilde Stuart, will be appeal to rangers, safari guides and all nature lovers wanting to deepen their understanding of life in the bush.
Why look at the skulls of mammals, you may ask? Rarely is it possible to view animals, particularly smaller species, in the wild for long enough to notice all their characteristic features. Examining a skull found in the veld or seen in a museum gives you an opportunity to determine at close range which animal it belongs to and what its feeding habits and behaviour were. And you may even uncover what caused its demise. The mammal skull is made up of about 34 bones, many of which are fused together. The skull can be divided into two main parts: the cranium (containing the braincase and rostrum) and the mandible (lower jaw). The rostrum, in turn, consists of the nasal structures and the maxilla (upper jaw) (see page 5). This short guide covers the overall shape and main bones of the skull - the teeth, mandible, rostrum, braincase and zygomatic arches (cheekbones) - and presents the vast range of shapes and sizes that help to tell one species from another. The tooth structure is particularly informative in pinpointing a species, as it shows the species-specific characteristics that different mammals have evolved for finding, biting and chewing food. Even if teeth have fallen out, the position of the sockets can help with species identification. For this reason, close-up photographs and dental formulas are given throughout Skullduggery. Quick ID guide to southern and East African mammal skulls. The eye orbits and their location in the skull, clearly visible in the skull images, offer further clues for accurate identification. [...]
WARNING: Take great care when handling any skulls you may find in the veld as individual animals may have died of disease or succumbed to poisoning.
Chris and Mathilde Stuart would like to thank the curators and collection managers of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City, the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, and the National Museum of Natural History, Paris.
This is an excerpt from Skullduggery. Quick ID guide to southern and East African mammal skulls, by Chris and Mathilde Stuart.
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
Stuart, Chris und Stuart, Tilde im Namibiana-Buchangebot
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