Meerkat Manor

Flower Of The Kalahari

Tim Clutton-Brock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2008
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7538-2314-9 (ISBN)

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The life of the Meerkats - from the highly successful TV series, and soon to be released major feature film

MEERKAT MANOR is the true-life story of Flower, the heroine of the successful television series, and the dominant female of Whiskers group. Through words and superb photographs, the reader becomes closely involved in the life-or-death struggles, just like a soap opera, of this curiously attractive tribe. MEERKAT MANOR not only describes what meerkats do, but explains why they do it, providing important insights into the working of other animal societies, including humans. 'They look cute and their teamwork has led some to suggest they are ideal role models for humans, but ...if MEERKAT MANOR is billed as a soap opera, it is one scripted by Quentin Tarantino' Mail on Sunday.

Tim Clutton-Brock is Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on the evolution of animal breeding systems and he has studied red deer on the Isle of Rum, Soay sheep on the island of St Kilda and the Meerkats in the southern Kalahari. He is the founder-director of the Kalahari Meerkat project where his contributions to our understanding of animals is based on patient observation in the field. The series of films for television based on his research have become widespread and popular viewing.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.2008
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 198 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10	0-7538-2314-4 / 0753823144
ISBN-13	978-0-7538-2314-9 / 9780753823149
Zustand	Neuware