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Mammals of Madagascar: A Complete Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Nick Garbutt
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 225456
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 030012550X
Dewey Decimal Number: 599
EAN: 9780300125504
ASIN: 030012550X
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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Product Description
The mammals that inhabit Madagascar are among the most extraordinary in the world. This portable guide offers a full survey and classification of all the Malagasy mammals, both endemic and introduced, including many new species only recently identified. With vivid color photographs, line illustrations, and maps, Mammals of Madagascar: A Complete Guide is an essential volume for any tourist or biologist who visits the island—or wishes to. The guide provides descriptions of the physical and behavioral characteristics of each species as well as information about habitat and distribution. To further aid identification, the book lists top mammal-watching sites in the rainforests, deciduous forests, and spiny forest areas. Streamlined and completely updated, this book replaces Nick Garbutt’s classic earlier work, Mammals of Madagascar, and takes its place as the definitive guide to the mammals of the world’s fourth-largest island. Published in association with Christopher Helm/A & C Black Publishers Ltd.
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Outstanding! July 26, 2007
W. Laszlo (Indonesia)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Ecotourists visiting Madagascar are really lucky.
After the excellent Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, 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.
Breathtaking January 18, 2008
L. Garrett (Brooklyn)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
OK, so maybe you aren't a nature freak, and lemurs don't rank high on your list. Well, did you see the cartoon film "Madagascar"? See the lemur king singing "I like to boogie?" Even if you don't fall in love with this book your kids will. Because Madagascar was separated by oceans from all other landmasses for millions of years, its mammals evolved on entirely different trajectories from the rest of the world. Lemurs are remarkable creatures -- genetically part of the same primate branch as apes and homo sapiens. When you study them, lemurs strike you as big rats --- until you pay attention to their fingers, eyes, movements and colony behavior. And then you start to see human characteristics, and it is a bit jarring -- and funny.
An ideal photographic guide June 8, 2008
Adrian Cerda Ardura (Mexico City, Mexico)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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!
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