The Serengeti Lion. A Study of Predator-Prey Relations.

Schaller, George B.

ISBN 10: 0226736393 / ISBN 13: 9780226736396

Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972

About this Item

xiii, 480pp, index, references, appendices, maps, bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. A little minor toning to endpapers. Some toning and a few dark flecks on jacket spine, with a couple of very short tears. An depth sudy of the realtionship betwen predator (lions) and prey in Tanzania's Sernegeti National Park. In University of Chicago Press' Wildlife Behavior and Ecology series. Size: Large 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Serengeti Lion. A Study of Predator-Prey Relations.
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226736393
• ISBN 13: 9780226736396
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Africa & South America
  • Natural History & Environment

About this title

Synopsis

Based on three years of study in the Serengeti National Park, George B. Schaller's "The Serengeti Lion" describes the vast impact of the lion and other predators on the great herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle for which the area is famous. The most comprehensive book available on the lion, this classic work includes the author's findings on all aspects of lion behavior, including its social system, population dynamics, hunting behavior, and predation patterns.

Review

"This book conveys not only the fascination of its particular study of lion behavior but the drama and wonder and beauty of the intimate interdependence of all living things." - Saturday Review "If you have only enough time to read one book about field biology, this is the one I recommend." - Edward O. Wilson, Science "This is an important book, not just for its valuable information on lions, but for its broad, open, and intelligent approach to problems that cut across the fields of behavior, populations, ecology, wildlife management, evolution, anthropology, and comparative biology." - Richard G. Van Gelder, Bioscience "By the time the reader has finished this book, the Serengeti, its landscapes, seasons, and wildlife, takes shape in the mind as a complex and epic poem, each part a function of every other part and each part a function of the whole." - George Stade, New York Times Book Review"