Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries

Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries Wild pigs inhabit vast areas in Europe, Asia and Africa, and hav ...

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Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries Edited by Mario Melletti AfBIG (African Buffalo Initiative Group ...

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vii Part I – Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 1 Evolutionary Relationships and Taxonomy of Suidae and Tayassuidae 1 Jaime ...

Contents viii 21 Eurasian Wild Boar Sus scrofa (Linnaeus, 1758) 202 Oliver Keuling, Tomasz Podgórski, Andrea Monaco, Mario Melle ...

ix Contributors Atidzhe Ahmed, PhD Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulg ...

x List of Contributors Allowen Evin, PhD Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, a ...

xi List of Contributors Fiona Maisels, PhD Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, USA and School of Nat ...

xii List of Contributors Carlos Henrique Salvador, PhD Instituto de Biologia, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janei ...

xiii Foreword The book you are holding goes a long way towards explaining everything you always wanted to know about pigs and pe ...

Foreword xiv Reyna-Hurtado, Erik Meijaard, Mariana Altrichter, Harald Beck, and Jaime Gongora, presents an overview of the conse ...

Foreword xv Focardi, Federico Morimando, Laura Scillitani, and Atidzhe Ahmed. Wild boar numbers continue to increase in most are ...

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xvii Acknowledgements This book is the result of the collaboration of 100 authors from 25 countries covering five continents. We ...

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xix Introduction Erik Meijaard and Mario Melletti Pigs tend to have an image problem. The word ‘pig’ often con- jures up images ...

Introduction xx Table 1 Worldwide occurrences, conservation status and main habitats of wild pigs and peccaries according to the ...