Search for your favourite author or book

Flying Mammals: Quick ID guide to the bats of Africa

ISBN 
9781775847298
Format 
Epub
Recommended Price 
R85.00
Published 
January 2021
About the book: 
Following the success of earlier ‘Quick Guide’ books, this slim little volume tackles one of the few groups of mammals that can fly. Divided into large fruit bats and smaller insecteating bats, this ultimate quick identification guide covers Africa’s 12 bat families. An informative introduction touches on evolution, flight, echolocation and reproduction, demystifying an animal that is all too often misunderstood. The text describes the facial characteristics and wing shapes common to each family and points out features that can help to distinguish between them. But it is the photographs and annotated line drawings that are most useful for identification. They include bats in flight and roosting sites, and close-ups of facial structures and wings that highlight key diagnostic attributes. An added extra is a photographic section showing the skulls of a variety bats.
 
This is a valuable guide for anyone with an interest in wildlife and its less common members.
Listing 

Others also viewed

Chicago, 1931. A strange house gives serial-killer Harper the power to travel through time; to...
The dazzling story of a Nigerian family.   The house at the end of Freetown Street in...
Suburban, middle-class, and from a good family - this is what makes Joanne Brodie's story all...