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Title:
The gnu's world : Serengeti wildebeest ecology and life history / Richard D. Estes.
Author:
Estes, Richard.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Call Number:
QL737 .U53 E88 2014
ISBN:
9780520273184

9780520273191
Physical Description:
xv, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents:
Introduction: the author's 50-year history of wildebeest research -- Africa : the real home where the antelopes roam -- African savannahs -- Introducing the wildebeest's tribe -- Wildebeest subspecies and status of migratory populations -- Growth and protection of the Serengeti wildebeest population -- Serengeti grasslands and the wildebeest migration -- Social organization in migratory and resident populations -- Male and female life histories -- Competition, facilitation and wildebeest impact on associated herbivores -- The rut : how half-a-million cows are bred within three weeks -- The calving season : birth and survival of wildebeest calves -- Serengeti shall not die?.
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