Mammals of South Asia: Volume 1
Contents : Preface. Forword. Introduction. Order Insectivora: 1. Insectivores/Xuelong Jiang and Robert Hoffman. Order Scandentia: 2.Treeshrews /Meera Anna Oomen. Order Chiroptera: 3. Bats/PJJ Bates. Order Primates: Family Lorisidae: 4. Slender loris Loris tardigradus/ Kaberi Kar Gupta . 5. Slow loris Nycticebus bengalensis/Arun Srivastava. Family Cercopithecidae : 6. Lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus/Ajith Kumar. 7. Rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta/Arun Srivastava. 8. Bonnet macaque Macaca radiate/Anindya Sinha. 9. Toque macaque Macaca sinica/ Wolfgang Dittus.10. Assamese macaque Macaca assamensis/Matthew A Cooper, Arun Srivastava and Prabal Sarkar. 11. Arunachal macaque Macaca munzala/Anindya Sinha, Debapriyo Chakraborty, Aparajita Datta, Nabam Gama, R Suresh Kumar, MD Madhusudan, Uttara Mendiratta, Uma Ramakrishnan and Charudutt Mishra. 12. Grey langur Semnopithecus entellus/G Agoramoorthy. 13. Nilgiri langur Semnopithecus johnii/HS Sushma, SF Wesley Sunderraj and AJT Johnsingh. 14. Golden langur Trachypithecus geei/ Atul Gupta, Arun Srivastava and Sonali Ghosh. 15. Phayre’s langur Trachypithecus phayrei/ AK Gupta. 16. Capped langur Trachypithecus pileatus/Anwaruddin Choudhury . 17. Purple-faced langur Trachypithecus vetulus/R Rudran. Family Hylobatidae: 18. Hoolock gibbon Hoolock hoolock and Hoolock leuconedys/Kashmira Kakati, JRB Alfred and JP Sati. Order Carnivora: Family Canidae: 19. Indian fox Vulpes bengalensis2/Yadvendradev V Jhala and AJT Johnsingh. 20. Golden jackal Canis aureus/Yadvendradev V Jhala and Patricia D Moehlman. 21. Indian wolf Canis lupus pallipes/ Yadvendradev V Jhala. 22. Asiatic wild dog Cuon alpines/AJT Johnsingh and Bhaskar Acharya. Family Ursidae: 23. Asiatic black bear Ursus thibetanus/Nima Manjrekar and AJT Johnsingh. 24. Himalayan brown bear Ursus arctos isabellinus/ TJ Roberts. 25. Sloth bear Melursus ursinus/K Yoganand, Clifford G Rice and AJT Johnsingh. Family Procyonidae: 26. Red panda Ailurus fulgens/Pralad Yonzon. Families: Mustelidae, Viverridae, Herpestidae 27. Herpestids, Viverrids and Mustelids/Divya Mudappa. 28. Otters/ Syed Ainul Hussain. Family Hyaenidae. 29. Striped hyena Hyaena hyaena/ Yadvendradev V Jhala. Family Felidae: 30. Small cats/Shomita Mukherjee. 31. Snow leopard Uncia uncial/ Rodney M Jackson and Raghunandan S Chundawat. 32. Leopard Panthera pardus/K Ullas Karanth. 33. Asiatic lion Panthera leo persica/AJT Johnsingh. 34. Tiger Panthera tigris/K Ullas Karanth. Index.
A complete guide to the mammals of South Asia, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and photos. The species accounts cover all aspects of field identification, including in-depth sections on distribution, behaviour, status and population. Anyone interested in the wildlife of the subcontinent will find this book an invaluable aid to identifying and understanding the region's diverse mammalian fauna.
Volume 1 covers insectivores, bats, primates, canids and felids, while Volume 2 focuses on marine mammals, elephant, rhinoceros, bovids, cervids, and rodents.
Over 75 authors have contributed on areas of specialised research. Many of the species, like the Arunachal macaque, are covered in such detail for the first time in a popular publication.
