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It is said of Johnsingh that he lives to work. In this book, he goes on several walks across the rugged and enchanting Western Ghats, detailing the presence and absence of the flora and fauna. Tiger pugmarks, tahr pellets, leopard scrapes, here tracks, sloth bear droppings, otter spoor, porcupine remains in leopard scat, scent of tiger spray, alarm calls of the wild, intrusion of non-endemic flora - nothing misses Johnsingh as he straddles the length and breadth ...
A complete guide to the mammals of South Asia, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and photos. The species accounts cover all aspects of field identification, including in-depth sections on distribution, behaviour, status and population. Anyone interested in the wildlife of the subcontinent will find this book an invaluable aid to identifying and understanding the region''s diverse mammalian fauna.
Volume 1 covers insectivores, bats, primates, canids and ...
A complete guide to the mammals of South Asia, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and photos. The species accounts cover all aspects of field identification, including in-depth sections on distribution, behaviour, status and population. Anyone interested in the wildlife of the subcontinent will find this book an invaluable aid to identifying and understanding the region''s diverse mammalian fauna.
Volume 1 covers insectivores, bats, primates, canids and ...
Dr. A. J. T. Johnsingh grew up near the forests around the Western Ghats, swimming, hunting and fishing. He saw his first leopard three metres away, as a child. He devoured the stories of Jim Corbett in Tamil translation at a local library, and was hooked. Since then, he has had a long and eminent career in wildlife biology, publishing the first full length study of the wild dogs of India, dholes. In the forests of the Himalayan foothills he has tracked tigers ...