Books
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The Giraffe: Its Biology, Behaviour and Ecology
Author: Anne Innis Dagg and J. Bristol Foster
Publication date: August 1976 This book is a comprehensive guide to the scientific study of the Giraffe. It has details of its biology, ecology and behaviour (as the title says) and would make great background reading for anyone doing a reserach project on giraffes. Giraffe lovers would also benefit if they were interested in facts about the giraffe, and not just cuddly pictures. A little dated, but provides a comprehensive overview of basic giraffe facts and initial knowledge. |
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Pursuing Giraffe
Author: Anne Innis Dagg
Publication date: June 2005 In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her naivete about the complex social and political issues in Africa. |
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Tall Blondes: a Book About Giraffes
Author: Lynn Sheer
Publication date: August 1997 A great book about all things you wanted to know about giraffes but were afraid to ask. Highly recommended, fun read for giraffe lovers or those looking to learn about this great animal. |
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story
Author: Michael Allin
Publication date: October 1998 Michael Allin's Zarafa is a delightful piece of popular cultural history, Zarafa recounts the history of a Masai giraffe captured in the Sudan in 1826 and shipped to France for presentation to the French king, Charles X. |
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Ungulate Taxonomy
Author: Colin P Groves & Peter Grubb
Publication date: 15 November 2011 A group of special interest to mammalogists, taxonomists, and systemicists, ungulates have proven difficult to classify. This comprehensive review of the taxonomic relationships of artiodactyls and perissodactyls brings forth new evidence in order to propose a theory of ungulate taxonomy. With this straightforward volume, Colin Groves and the late Peter Grubb cut through previous assumptions to define ungulate genera, species, and subspecies. The species-by-species accounts incorporate new molecular, cytogenetic, and morphological data, as well as the authors' own observations and measurements. The authors include references and supporting arguments for new classifications. A starting point for further research, this book is sure to be discussed and hotly debated in the mammalogical community. A well-reasoned synthesis, Ungulate Taxonomy will be a defining volume for years to come. |