- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (30 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0143029983
- ISBN-13: 978-0143029984
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #51 in Books > Science & Nature > Nature > Wild Animals > By Region > Asia
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India has a rich mammal fauna including elephants, rhinos and the much sought-after Tiger, but there are many other species to be found there, many of them more conspicuous than the elusive Tiger. This book is the first comprehensive field guide to all the 400 species of mammals in India. Most are illustrated with superb colour photographs or illustrations, and are accompanied by an authoritative text from one of India's top biologists. The text pinpoints key characteristics of the species concerned, and gives useful distributional and habitat information. Maps are included for each species, and footprints too where relevant.
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Vivek Menon is one of India's top biologists and the author of several books.
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Foreign visitors to African game parks have a plethora of mammal field guides to choose from, yet curiously, though India has a rich and interesting mammalian fauna, Vivek Menon's guide seems to be the only one in the English language currently (in winter 2011/12) in print.
Menon's guide does not cover the whole subcontinent, but only the political entity of India, and is a reprint of a book published by Dorling Kindersley/Penguin in India in 2003. The Dorling Kindersley (DK) connection is obvious, not only due to the book's design, but also because the illustrations of relevant sea mammals are the same as those used in DK's `Whales, dolphins and porpoises' (1995) (though this last fact is unacknowledged in the guide). All other mammal groups are depicted by colour photos.
Thanks in part to the use of symbols, there's an awful lot of useful information compressed into this small and slim flexicover guide, which (apart from the aforementioned sea mammals) covers in varying detail everything from primates through to rodents and bats, and also contains useful background information.
The only criticism I've got concerns the illustrations, which in many (but not all) cases have been printed fuzzily; that this is a fault of printing rather than the original illustrations is confirmed by comparing the sharp images of Ganges River Dolphin in the DK cetacean guide, with the same illustrations in Menon's book. Why, with modern printing techniques, a big publisher such as A&C Black allows this to happen, is baffling.
In summary, this is an attractive, handy and easily portable guide, which makes a useful travelling companion for those visiting India to watch wildlife.
Menon's guide does not cover the whole subcontinent, but only the political entity of India, and is a reprint of a book published by Dorling Kindersley/Penguin in India in 2003. The Dorling Kindersley (DK) connection is obvious, not only due to the book's design, but also because the illustrations of relevant sea mammals are the same as those used in DK's `Whales, dolphins and porpoises' (1995) (though this last fact is unacknowledged in the guide). All other mammal groups are depicted by colour photos.
Thanks in part to the use of symbols, there's an awful lot of useful information compressed into this small and slim flexicover guide, which (apart from the aforementioned sea mammals) covers in varying detail everything from primates through to rodents and bats, and also contains useful background information.
The only criticism I've got concerns the illustrations, which in many (but not all) cases have been printed fuzzily; that this is a fault of printing rather than the original illustrations is confirmed by comparing the sharp images of Ganges River Dolphin in the DK cetacean guide, with the same illustrations in Menon's book. Why, with modern printing techniques, a big publisher such as A&C Black allows this to happen, is baffling.
In summary, this is an attractive, handy and easily portable guide, which makes a useful travelling companion for those visiting India to watch wildlife.
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