''Mammals of Africa'' is a book series of six volumes from

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. Published in 2013 and edited by

Jonathan Kingdon Jonathan Kingdon (born 1935 in Tanzania) is a zoologist, science author, and artist; a research associate at the University of Oxford. He focuses on taxonomic illustration and evolution of the mammals of Africa. He is a contributor to The Oxford B ...

David Happold David Christopher Dawber Happold, (born 19 April 1936 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England), in publications often D. C. D. Happold, is a British-Australian mammalogist. His main research interests are the small mammals (bats, shrews, and rodents) of ...

, Thomas Butynski, Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold and Jan Kalina, it describes every species of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

n land

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

which comprise 1,160 species and 16 orders.

Published volumes

*Volume 1: Introductory Chapters and Afrotheria, edited by Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold and Jan Kalina (352 pages) *Volume 2: Primates, edited by Thomas M. Butynski, Jonathan Kingdon and Jan Kalina (560 pages) *Volume 3: Rodents, Hares and Rabbits, edited by David C.D. Happold (784 pages) *Volume 4: Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats, edited by Meredith Happold and David C.D. Happold (800 pages) *Volume 5: Carnivores, Pangolins, Equids and Rhinoceroses, edited by Jonathan Kingdon and Michael Hoffmann (560 pages) *Volume 6: Pigs, Hippopotamuses, Chevrotain, Giraffes, Deer and Bovids, edited by Jonathan Kingdon and Michael Hoffmann (704 pages)

External links

Mammals of Africa
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