The gnu's world : Serengeti wildebeest ecology and life history /
This is the first scholarly book on the antelope that dominates the savanna ecosystems of eastern and southern Africa. It presents a synthesis of research conducted over a span of fifty years, mainly on the wildebeest in the Ngorongoro and Serengeti ecosystems, where eighty percent of the world'...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014
Berkeley : [2014] Berkeley, California ; Los Angeles, California ; London, England : 2014 |
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Table of 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?