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      Dar el Kutub No. 16765/08

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      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

Acknowledgments

Preface

The Biogeography of Egypt

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

Using the Guide

The Text, The Maps, The Plates, Measurements

The Insectivores

Long-eared Hedgehog, Ethiopian Hedgehog, Greater Musk Shrew, Flower’s Shrew, Dwarf Shrew, Lesser White-toothed Shrew, House Shrew, Savi’s Pygmy Shrew

The Bats

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

       The Carnivores

      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,