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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, Wild Cat, Swamp Cat, Sand Cat, Caracal, Cheetah, Leopard

The Cetaceans

Fin Whale, Sei Whale, Humpback Whale, Sperm Whale, Narwhal, Common Dolphin, Bottle-nosed Dolphin, Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin, Pantropical Spotted Dolphin, Spinner Dolphin, Risso’s Dolphin, Short-finned Pilot Whale, False Killer Whale

The Sirenians

Dugong

The Odd-toed Ungulates

African Wild Ass

The Hyraxes

Rock Hyrax, Yellow-spotted Hyrax

The Even-toed Ungulates

Addax, Scimitar-horned Oryx, Dorcas Gazelle, Slender-horned Gazelle, Mountain Gazelle, Ibex, Barbary Sheep

The Rodents

Giza Gerbil, Anderson’s Gerbil, Large North African Gerbil, Wagner’s Gerbil, Lesser Egyptian Gerbil, Pygmy Gerbil, Mackilligin’s Gerbil, Baluchistan Gerbil, Greater Egyptian Gerbil, Pallid Gerbil, Lesser Short-tailed Gerbil, Silky Jird, Libyan Jird, Shaw’s Jird, Tristram’s Jird, Negev Jird, Fat-tailed Jird, Fat Sand Rat, Bushy-tailed Jird, Four-toed Jerboa, Lesser Egyptian Jerboa, Greater Egyptian Jerboa, Cairo Spiny Mouse, Golden Spiny Mouse, House Mouse, Nile Kusu, House Rat, Brown Rat, Bandicoot Rat, Middle Eastern Dormouse, Crested Porcupine, Lesser Molerat

The Lagomorphs

Cape Hare

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Indexes