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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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