Wild Mammals of Zimbabwe

This book aims at serving as a field guide to the larger mammals of Zimbabwe, as well as introducing the reader to the entire range of mammals to be found in Zimbabwe, from the smallest to the largest.

All too often the smaller mammals are left out of field guides simply because the author feels that, unless he or she can do fu ll justice to the subject o f smaller mammals, they should not be touched at all. The result is a paucity of inform ation on all the smaller mammals, a prolifera­tion of information on the larger mammals, and a great many people who know the difference between a kudu and an impala, but for the life of them couldn’t tell you what a mole rat is, or looks like, or how it differs from a golden mole, or what a dormouse is, and how it differs from an ordinary m ouse, or what an elephant shrew looks like, and so on.