- Title
- A study of the ecology, behaviour and systematics of Tockus Hornbills
- Creator
- Kemp, Alan Charles
- Subject
- Birds -- South Africa -- Kruger National Park -- Identification Birds -- South Africa -- Kruger National Park -- Ecology Birds -- South Africa -- Kruger National Park -- Breeding Birds -- Birds -- South Africa -- Kruger National Park -- Nutrition Birds -- South Africa -- Kruger National Park -- Physiology
- Date Issued
- 1973
- Date
- 1973
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- vital:5861
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012634
- Description
- During the last decades ecology and behaviour have become of major importance in African ornithology. Not only have more individual species been studied in detail, but behaviour and ecology have been used in a more general sense in regional works (Benson et al 1971} and in zoogeographical treatises (Moreau 1966, Hall and Moreau 1970). As part of a world- wide trend, behaviour and ecology have also become important in systematics and taxonomy eg. Hall's 1963 study of francolin, and Benson et al's 1971 erection of the bush shrike family Malaconotidae. This dissertation fits into this trend, beginning with a detailed study of the ecology and behaviour of three species of hornbill of the genus Tockus, and extending the observations in less detail to five other members of the genus. Combined with the literature, these observations allow an analysis of the systematics and evolution of the genus Tokus to be undertaken, as well as supplying descriptive information on Tokus biology. Intro. p. 1.
- Format
- 152 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science, Zoology and Entomology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Kemp, Alan Charles
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