Feature # 25, Winter 2008-2009.
Feature # 25, Winter 2008-2009.
HOOFED STOCK FIELD GUIDE WINS AWARD
Mungall greets Indian blackbuck female.
Photo courtesy ZooWorld.
EXOTIC ANIMAL FIELD GUIDE
Nonnative Hoofed Mammals in the United States
by Elizabeth Cary Mungall
At its 2008 meeting in San Antonio, Texas, the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society announced its book winner for Annual Publication Award – “Exotic Animal Field Guide” published by Texas A&M University Press. Featuring eighty different kinds of hoofed mammals, this book covers common exotics, such as blackbuck antelope and fallow deer, some less common species like scimitar-horned oryx and a few newer arrivals like bongo. The introduction explains how these species got here, where people can go to view them, and gives a few guidelines for responsible ownership.
The main portion of the book contains fully illustrated species accounts, with native range maps and information about food habits, habitat, temperament, breeding and birth seasons, and fencing needs. A list of exotics–related organizations and a reference section round out the text. Photographs of each species make identification easy and, in a chapter on photographing exotics, Christian Mungall shows readers how to take their own great pictures of these animals.
This book is for anyone, from park visitor and zoo goer to rancher and wildlife biologist, who wants to identify and to learn about exotic wildlife in the United States.
For light weight with durability, this field guide has a new type of slick flexbinding with flaps. There are 312 pages, 234 color photographs, 82 maps, 2 black-and-white illustrations, and 4 tables. ISBN nos. 987-1-58544-555-4 and 1-58544-555-X.
SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE BOOK:
“Anyone with exotics … will require
Exotic Animal Field Guide.” James G. Teer
“…fills a vacant niche.” Richard D. Estes
ANIMALS FEATURED IN FIELD GUIDE:
DEER
Axis deer
Barasingha
Dybowski’s deer
Eld’s deer (brow-antlered deer)
Fallow deer, European
Fallow deer, Persian
Hog deer
Muntjac, Indian
Muntjac, Reeves’s
Père David's deer
Red deer, European
Sambar
Sika deer
Silk
ANTELOPES
Addax
Blackbuck antelope
Blesbok
Bongo
Bontebok
Dik-dik, Guenther’s
Dik-dik, Kirk’s
Eland, common
Eland, giant
Gazelle, dama
Gazelle, dorcas
Gazelle, Grant's
Gazelle, Persian
Gazelle, slender-horned
Gazelle, Thomson's
Gemsbok (South African oryx)
Impala
Kudu, greater
Lechwe, Nile
Lechwe, red
Nilgai antelope
Nyala
Oryx, Arabian
Oryx, beisa
Oryx, fringe-eared
Oryx, scimitar-horned oryx
Roan antelope
Sable antelope
Sitatunga
Springbok
Waterbuck, common
Waterbuck, defassa
Wildebeest, black (white-tailed gnu)
Wildebeest, blue (brindled gnu)
SHEEP AND GOATS
Aoudad (Barbary sheep)
Barbados sheep
Catalina goat
Corsican sheep
Four-horned sheep
Ibex, alpine
Ibex, Nubian
Ibex, Persian (Iranian ibex)
Siberian ibex (Asiatic ibex)
Ibex, YO
Markhor
Mouflon
Red sheep, Alborz
Stumberg sheep
Tahr, Himalayan
Urial, Trans-Caspian
CATTLE
African Cape buffalo
Banteng
Gaur
Water buffalo
Yak
OTHER
Camel, Arabian (dromedary)
Camel, Bactrian
Giraffe (Masai giraffe, etc.)
Giraffe, reticulated
Llama
Rhinoceros, black
Rhinoceros, white
Wild boar
Zebra, Chapman's
Zebra, Grant's
Zebra, Grévy's
A FEW BOOK PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR:
Field guide cover showing addax (courtesy of Camp Cooley Ranch, Texas).
Axis deer at a “Hill Country” tank (courtesy of Kyle Wildlife LP, Texas).
Giraffe (courtesy of Global Wildlife Center, Louisiana).
QUIZ QUESTION:
Winter 2008-2009 question: What is the special name for the insulating under-hair of the muskox?
Click here
to return to the beginning of this home page. Thanks for the visit.
This site was established on October 27, 1996.
If you have comments or suggestions, for this page please email me at: