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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Estes, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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