The African Leopard: Ecology and Behavior of a Solitary Field (Biology and Resource Management in the Tropics)

A study of the biology of a species that, despite its success as an adaptable predator, appears to be on the decline in distribution and numbers throughout many areas of its once widespread range. Based on his two years of intensive field study in Kruger National Park in South Africa, Bailey examines leopard population characteristics, activity and habitat use patterns, movements, feeding ecology, and social organization, and provides new information on leopard mortality, scavenging, and relationships to other large predators and to humans. Illustrated with photographs, maps, graphs, charts, and tables. For professional wildlife biologists, students, and others concerned with the natural history of large carnivores. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.