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The book deals with 24 threatened species of mammals found in Kerala, belonging to 21 genra under 12 families. Classification followed in the book is based on Wilson and Reeder (1993). Status is given after Zoological Survey of India Red Data Book (1994), but for some species, viz., Vulpes bengalensis, Cuonalpinus, Melursus Ursinus, Felis cbaus the same is given on the basis of observatiions of the authors in the state.
Mammals are the animals that man knows best, perhaps, since the primeval period of his his hunter-gatherer-status. They are the most advanced of all the other groups (classes) of animals of the world today. The members have a worldwide distribution living in diverse eco-habitats like marine and fresh water systems, glaciers, forests and deserts. The mammalian diversity reported from the world is about 4629 species, of which 408 species are recorded from India, ...