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Phillip T. Robinson

The Pygmy Hippo Story

West Africa's Enigma of the Rainforest

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Though the pygmy hippopotamus has been designated as a flagship species of West African forests (meaning that by raising conservation efforts for a single species, an entire ecological region could benefit), very little research has been published on the animal. They are solitary, nocturnal, and highly evasive, and until recent developments in camera trap technology, they were considered the least-photographed large mammal species in the world. The information currently available on this endangered species is scattered, limited, redundant, and often inaccurate, and no major volume exists as a resource for those interested in the conservation… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Flacke, Gabriella L. / Hentschel, Knut M.
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-062787-4
  • EAN: 9780190627874
  • Produktnummer: 22479665
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 475 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 119'456 KB
  • Abbildungen: 271

Über den Autor


Philip T. Robinson, MS, DVM, DACZM, is a board certified veterinarian in zoological medicine and recently retired as the Director of the Department of Laboratory Animal Resources at the University of Toledo (Ohio). He was formerly the chief veterinarian at the San Diego Zoo and first worked with the pygmy hippo in West Africa in 1968.Knut Hentschel, MS, PhD is now retired after a long career of research and conservation efforts, notably in Africa. After completing his PhD at the University of Braunschweig, Germany in 1990, Hentschel dedicating twenty years to positions in Uganda, Central African Republic, and the Ivory Coast, including radiotelemetry studies of the pygmy hippopotamus.Gabriella Flacke, DVM, MS has lived and worked in Southern Africa where she served as clinical veterinarian for both the KwaZulu-Natal African Wild Dog Conservation and Reintroduction Programme in South Africa and the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia. She is now pursuing her PhD at the University of Western Australia, where she focuses on pygmy hippo health, reproduction, and conservation.

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