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Title: The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates by Richard D. Estes, Daniel Otte, Kathryn S. Fuller ISBN: 1-890132-44-6 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent but illustrated
Comment: While I agree with most of the other reviewers comments,I wouldn't agree that it is the only book you need. Descriptions and explanations are exemplary but the book is black/white illustrations with no color and no photographs.
Rating: 5
Summary: The only book you need
Comment: Forget the field guides - any safari guide worth his or her salt can tell you if that's a Thompson's gazelle or an impala. But what they CAN'T tell you is: why does a warthog kneel while eating? what's up with that hyena sibling rivalry? This book is chock full of the kind of insights that make the difference between a "checklist" safari and really understanding what you're looking at. This is the only book we used on our recent trip. Every time we came across a new animal someone in our group would grab the book and read aloud the best parts. I left it our copy in Kenya with our guide so I'd better go order another copy!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book for the safari rookie
Comment: I was looking for a book or two (as luggage weight limits were tight)to enhance my first safari experience to the national parks of Tanzania. I selected this book based on Amazon.com reader feedback. It was a real help during the safari and continues to be used while reviewing video, photos, and books on African wildlife. I also took a good field guide (Audubon)--but these were widely available on the safari 4WD as well as at the lodges. What makes the Estes book unique is it describes the MEANING of the behavior and social groups you see on the game drives. Almost daily we would see sights that struck me as unexpected--like an all male group of 40 impalas, or zebras leading a line of hundreds of wildebeest; I'd look up that species in the Estes book back at camp and he would explain the meaning of the behavior. My safari mates were all very experienced and involved in zoos in the USA. They would often ask to borrow my "Estes" for their use.
In my opinion, if you can only take one book other than your safari journal--take this one. If you can take two, include a good field guide (like Audubon).
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Title: National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY ISBN: 0679432345 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 03 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: African Safari Journal by Mark W. Nolting, Duncan Butchart ISBN: 0939895080 Publisher: Global Travel Publishers Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates by Richard Despard Estes, Daniel Otte, Edward Osborne Wilson ISBN: 0520080858 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Swahili Phrasebook (Swahili Phrasebook, 2nd Ed) by Martin Benjamin, Charles Mironko, Anne Geoghegan ISBN: 0864425090 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman, Donald A. Turner, David J. Pearson ISBN: 0691010226 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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