A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt. Richard Hoath
A Field Guide
to the
Mammals of Egypt
A Field Guide
to the
Mammals of Egypt
Richard Hoath
Illustrations by the author
The American University in Cairo Press
Cairo
To Dr. R. Donkin of Jesus College, Cambridge
Copyright © 2003, 2009 by
The American University in Cairo Press
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This flexibound edition, with minor revisions, published 2009
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Dar el Kutub No. 16765/08
ISBN 978 977 416 254 1
Dar el Kutub Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoath, Richard
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt / Richard Hoath.—Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008
p. cm.
ISBN 978 161 797 272 0
1. Mammals—Egypt I. Title
599
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Maps by Jeff Miller
Designed by Andrea El-Akshar/AUC Press Design Center
Printed in Egypt
Contents
The Northern Coastal Strip , The Western Desert, The Eastern Desert, The Sinai Peninsula, Gebel Elba, The Nile Delta and Valley, Marine Environments, Current Threats and the Status of Egyptian Mammals, The Future
The Text, The Maps, The Plates, Measurements
Long-eared Hedgehog, Ethiopian Hedgehog, Greater Musk Shrew, Flower’s Shrew, Dwarf Shrew, Lesser White-toothed Shrew, House Shrew, Savi’s Pygmy Shrew
Egyptian Fruit Bat, Larger Rat-tailed Bat, Lesser Rat-tailed Bat, Geoffroy’s Tomb Bat, Egyptian Sheath-tailed Bat, Egyptian Slit-faced Bat, Arabian Horseshoe Bat, Lesser Horseshoe Bat, Mehely’s Horseshoe Bat, Trident Leaf-nosed Bat, Kuhl’s Pipistrelle, Desert Pipistrelle, Pygmy Pipistrelle, Bodenheimer’s Pipistrelle, Rüppell’s Bat, Botta’s Serotine Bat, Hemprich’s Long-eared Bat, Schlieffen’s Bat, Arabian Barbastelle, Gray Long-eared Bat, European Free-tailed Bat, Egyptian Free-tailed Bat
Jackal, Wolf, Red Fox, Rüppell’s Sand Fox, Blanford’s Fox, Fennec Fox, Egyptian Weasel, Striped Weasel, Zorilla, Marbled Polecat, Small-spotted Genet, Egyptian Mongoose, Striped Hyena, Aardwolf,