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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Droppings, Dung & Scats of Southern African Wildlife
One of the keys to understanding the life of the bush is through identifying the droppings of wild animals. Whether you call it scat, poop, spraint, tath or fewmets, the presence of a pile of this stuff on the garden lawn, a pathway through the veld or on the windshield of your car will lead to the question of who left it there. br> In this book you will find images and identification hints for the faecal deposits of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and even insect, mollusc and arachnid life. Ideal as a handbook in the bush, staying in a game park or in the collection of a wildlife researcher, this book is a wonderful aid and resource.
£12.50
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Invertebrates of Southern Africa & their Tracks and Signs
A must-have book for nature lovers, encouraging them to look a little closer. Invertebrates of Southern Africa and their Tracks & Signs covers a never-before-explored aspect of Southern African nature and is an essential new addition to the library of every nature lover. It was researched and written over the last four and a half years to open a door to a little known micro-world that exists all around us. Invertebrates – which include commonly seen creatures such as butterflies, spiders, beetles, worms and scorpions – are everywhere. The signs of their day-to-day activities are all around us if we know where to look. The life cycles and behaviors of many animals are discussed, with a special focus on interactions between mammals and invertebrates. While working on this book, Lee Gutteridge spent many hours in the field with expert entomologists and arachnologists, many of whom commented that even though they had spent a lifetime in the field, this experience of invertebrate tracking had changed the way that they see the invertebrate world.
£20.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Mammals of Southern Africa and their tracks & signs
Tracking is a much-loved yet difficult subject that attracts at least some of the attention of almost every bush-goer who ventures into the wild places of southern Africa. The ability to accurately read difficult, partial, or little-seen signs left in the soil or sand is rare and largely the domain of professionals. However, by making use of this comprehensive guide, anyone who applies him- or herself can begin to decipher these natural hieroglyphs etched on the ground. In this volume, highly accurate sketches of animal tracks are combined with a wide selection of extremely varied photographs that provide an all-round impression of the signs the animals may leave behind. This field guide to mammal tracks and signs also serves as an ID guide to the mammals of southern Africa as full color photographs of each animal are included.
£15.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Birds of Southern Africa and their Tracks & Signs
This book is a totally fresh approach to observing birds in Southern Africa. It affords you the opportunity to gather previously inaccessible and indecipherable information in the form of tracks and signs left behind by our avifauna. The book explores the unique details of the spoor, or tracks, of many species of birds. This is done in multiple ways including by observing their droppings, examining their feeding behaviour as well as their general nesting structures. It's remarkable how tracks and signs in nature help you to enrich your knowledge of bird species, providing knowledge as straightforward as the shape of the individual nests of our various species of weaver, or the ability to recognise and understand the role of a drum-site in the life of a bearded woodpecker, or even being able to see the subtle signs of a cardinal woodpecker on the various acacia pods which host its larval food. Louis Liebenberg has generously provided some sketches of spoor he has made for his own publications, making these clear schematics available to assist with identification. Skulls, feathers, beaks and egg shells are also occasionally encountered, and a few examples of these will be included, as they also tell a story of a bird which has passed by. This approach to southern Africa's birdlife will add tremendously to how we experience our wonderful avifauna.
£20.95