The Book of Indian Animals
Title | The Book of Indian Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley Henry Prater |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN |
The Book of Indian Animals
Title | The Book of Indian Animals PDF eBook |
Author | S. H. Prater |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN | 9780195621693 |
This is the third edition of the standard reference work on India's more common mammals. Based on the observations of the naturalists and sportsmen who have contributed to the journal of the Bombay Natural History Society for over a century, the book describes and illustrates the habitat, characteristics, distribution, and other details of twenty-three different types of mammal. The comprehensive illustrations include 28 full colour plates depicting 141 species, by the distinguishedartist M. Paul Barruel. There are also 40 black-and-white plates, and a 2-page colour map of India showing climatic forest types and the distribution of geographical races of the Indian Giant Squirrel. This is a book for anyone interested in Indian animals, at whatever level.
Beast and Man in India
Title | Beast and Man in India PDF eBook |
Author | John Lockwood Kipling |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Animal welfare |
ISBN |
Rare Animals of India
Title | Rare Animals of India PDF eBook |
Author | Natarajan Singaravelan |
Publisher | Bentham Science Publishers |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2013-04-05 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1608054853 |
Rare Animals of India is a unique book that presents the biological and ecological accounts of the least known animal species of India in one comprehensive volume. The book gives comprehensive ecological accounts supported with data tables on rare and specific animal species of India and discusses the basis for their rarity and their conservation. It includes information about the Indian Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) the endangered Forest Owlet (Heteroglaux blewitti), the Bengal Marsh Mongoose, Snow Leopards and many more. Readers are guided through several chapters each detailing a specific kind of animal, some of them being on the list of endangered species. With over 150 color illustrations, this intriguing reference will be of immense interest to zoologists, ecologists, naturalists and conservation biologists as well as general readers across the world interested in studying such rare animals found in the length and breadth of the Indian region.
Wild Animals in Central India
Title | Wild Animals in Central India PDF eBook |
Author | Archibald Alexander Dunbar Brander |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Animal behavior |
ISBN |
The Book of Indian Animals
Title | The Book of Indian Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley Henry Prater |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Mammals |
ISBN |
Animals in Stone
Title | Animals in Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Anna Enrica van der Geer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 535 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004168192 |
This magnificently illustrated study of a vast amount of South Asian animal stone sculptures provides an art history covering almost four and a half thousand years, analyzing the art historical, archeological and cultural context of animals in society.