- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: A&C Black; 1 edition (May 15 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0713670436
- ISBN-13: 978-0713670431
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #635,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Photographs that could grace a glossy coffee-table book are matched with authoritative, up-to-date text in a guide small enough to pop in your backpack... If you are a natural-history buff who dreams of seeing this amazing island, Garbutt just might tip you off the couch and stir you into action.' BBC Wildlife (May 2007)
Book Description
Mammals of Madagascar is the only field guide covering all the mammals of Madagascar, portable and compact for use in the field. Written by acknowledged expert Nich Garbutt, this field guide adaptation is illustrated throughout with his own beautiful colour photos and line drawings.
Madagascar has a unique mammal fauna--of the 123 species, at least 103 are found nowhere else on Earth! Along with lemurs, there are bats, rodents, mongooses and more. Anyone interested in mammals will want to discover more about some of these most remarkable species in the world.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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Outstanding!, July 26 2007
By Laszlo Wagner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mammals of Madagascar: A Complete Guide (Paperback)
Ecotourists visiting Madagascar are really lucky.After the excellent Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles and the Comoros, an excellent, affordable field guide to mammals in now finally available!
It's hard to know where to start praising this book, but perhaps most importantly, it really IS complete, describing all mammal species found in Madagascar.
The species accounts are incredibly detailed, not only providing extensive info on each species' appearence, behaviour, habitat & distribution, but even telling you where to go to see each one!
Of course excellent photographs (except for a few obscure rodents and bats) and very detailed range maps accompany each species as well.
Additionally, there are highly informative chapters on the various habitats found in Madagascar, on conservation issues, and finally detailed descriptions of the country's top mammal-watching sites, with lists of the most important species to be expected, access, facilities, best season to visit...
For those seriously interested, there is an incredibly long bibliography listing as well.
If I really had to make one complaint about this book, it would be that the format is a bit too large to be convenient for carrying in the field. I wish it could be smaller and thicker, but this size may have been necessary to accomodate several impressive full-page sized photographs.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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An ideal photographic guide, Jun 8 2008
By Adrian Cerda Ardura - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mammals of Madagascar: A Complete Guide (Paperback)
I was looking for a good photographic guide to the mammals of Madagascar. I have several good books about Ecology, Evolution, Taxonomy, Biogeography and other related topics, but I really was needing one that would show the variety of mammalian species of the island. I finally found this little guide showing most of the species. It is good in size, although I wish it was larger because the excellent photos could be more enjoyable being larger. Also, I would love to have more images of the natural history of certain species, rather than have them just frozen in resting position. The written information is also good and enough for a guide of this quality, level and purpose. It is not for experts, but I am sure that even the experts, as well as anyone, will enjoy the book. Congratulations to the author Nick Garbut, it is an excellent work!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great!, Feb 5 2010
By Sam - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mammals of Madagascar: A Complete Guide (Paperback)
A wonderful, colorful guide to the creatures of Madagascar. Highly recommended to anybody interested in the wildlife here, or anyone planning to visit!
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