Home to the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania offers some of the finest big game watching in the world, from elephants and rhinos to chimpanzees and lions. This field guide covers all the larger mammals of Tanzania, including marine mammals and some newly discovered species. Detailed accounts are provided for more than 135 species, along with color photos, color illustrations of marine mammals, and distribution maps. Accounts for land species give information on identification, subspecies, similar species, ecology, behavior, distribution, conservation status, and where best to see each species. The guide also features plates with side-by-side photographic comparisons of species that are easily confused, as well as first-time-ever species checklists for every national park.

Foreword 7Preface 8
Acknowledgements 9
Conservation in Tanzania 10
How to use this book 12
Watching mammals in Tanzania 16
Tanzania's major vegetation types 20
Overview of mammalian families included in the book 24
THE SPECIES ACCOUNTS (see the following pages for a full list of species) 25
Terrestrial mammals
AARDVARK: Tubulidentata 26
ELEPHANT-SHREWS: Macroscelidea28
HYRAXES: Hyracoidea 32
ELEPHANT: Proboscidea 38
PRIMATES: Primates 40
RODENTS: Rodentia 84
HARES AND RABBITS: Lagomorpha 88
HEDGEHOGS: Erinaceomorpha 92
PANGOLINS: Pholidota 94
CARNIVORES: Carnivora 100
ODD-TOED UNGULATES: Perissodactyla 168
EVEN-TOED UNGULATES: Artiodactyla 172
Marine mammals
DUGONG: Sirenia 246
CETACEANS: Cetacea 248
CARNIVORES: Carnivora 261
Species comparison spreads 262
National Parks and major protected areas of Tanzania 269
Glossary 306
Photographic credits 309
Recommended further reading and references 312
Index 317