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Any animal of the Mammalia, a large class of warm-blooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four-chambered heart. The class includes the whales, carnivores, rodents, bats, primates, etc. (Source: CED)

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Bothma J du P, Nel JAJ, MacDonald A 1984. Food niche separation between four sympatric Namib Desert carnivores. Journal of Zoology 202 (3) 327-340

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05086.x/abstract

Nel JAJ, Bothma J du P 1983. Scent marking and midden use by aardwolves (Proteles cristatus) in the Namib Desert. African Journal of Ecology 21 (1) 25-39

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1983.tb00310.x/abstract

Lindeque M, van Jaarsveld AS 1993. Post-natal growth of elephants Loxodonta africana in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Zoology 229 (2) 319-330

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1993.tb02639.x/abstract

Lindeque M, Lindeque PM 1991. Satellite tracking of elephants in northwestern Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 29 (3) 196-206

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1991.tb01002.x/abstract

Leger JST 1933. A New Species of Myomys from South-West Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 103 (2) 411

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb01602.x/abstract

Lorenzen ED, Siegismund HR 2004. No suggestion of hybridization between the vulnerable black-faced impala (Aepyceros melampus petersi) and the common impala (A. m. melampus) in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Molecular Ecology 13 (10) 3007-3019

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02308.x/abstract

Vonrichter W, Osterberg R 1977. The nutritive values of some major food plants of lechwe, puku and waterbuck along the Chobe River, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology 15 (2) 91-97

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1977.tb00383.x/abstract

Thomas O 1927. On Mammals from the Gobabis district, Eastern Damaraland, South-West Africa, obtained during Captain Shortridge's fourth Percy Sladen and Kaffrarian Museum Expedition. With Field-notes by the Collector. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 97 (2) 371-398

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1927.tb02267.x/abstract

Leger JS 1932. On Mammals from North-West Damaraland, South-West Africa, obtained during Captain Shortridge's Sixth Percy Sladen and Kaffrarian Museum Expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 102 (4) 957-974

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb01573.x/abstract

Morales J, Pickford M, Soria D 1998. A new creodont Metapterodon stromeri nov. sp. (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Langental (Sperrgebiet, Namibia). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 327 (9) 633-638

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1251805099801189

Schoepf I, Schradin C 2014. Arginine vasopressin plasma levels change seasonally in African striped mice but do not differ between alternative reproductive tactics. General and Comparative Endocrinology 204 43-48

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016648014001749

Molteno AJ, Bennett NC 2002. Social Suppression in Nonreproductive Female Damaraland Mole-rats, Cryptomys damarensis: No Apparent Role for Endogenous Opioid Peptides. Hormones and Behavior 41 (2) 115-125

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X0191743X

Young AJ, Oosthuizen MK, Lutermann H, Bennett NC 2010. Physiological suppression eases in Damaraland mole-rat societies when ecological constraints on dispersal are relaxed. Hormones and Behavior 57 (2) 177-183

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X09002426

Snyman PC, Jackson CR, Bennett NC 2006. Do dispersing non-reproductive female Damaraland mole-rats, Cryptomys damarensis (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) exhibit spontaneous or induced ovulation?. Physiology and Behavior 87 (1) 88-89

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938405003847

Molia S, Chomel BB, Kasten RW, Leutenegger CM, Steele BR, Marker L, Martenson JS, Keet DF, Bengis RG, Peterson RP, Munson L, O'Brien SJ 2004. Prevalence of Bartonella infection in wild African lions (Panthera leo) and cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). Veterinary Microbiology 100 (1-2) 31-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378113504000100

Filippucci MG, Hickman GC, Capanna E, Nevo E 1991. Genetic diversity and differentiation of the endemic subterranean golden moles of South Africa. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 19 (6) 461-466

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0305197891900669

Tilson RL, Hamilton III WJ 1984. Social dominance and feeding patterns of spotted hyaenas. Animal Behaviour 32 (3) 715-724

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347284801475

Narins PM, Lewis ER, Jarvis JJUM, O'Riain J 1997. The Use of Seismic Signals by Fossorial Southern African Mammals: A Neuroethological Gold Mine. Brain research Bulletin 44 (5) 641-646

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923097002864

Fielden LJ, Perrin MR, Hickman GC 1990. Water metabolism in the Namib Desert Golden Mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology 96 (1) 227-234

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0300962990900709

du Toit N, Jansen van Vuuren B, Matthee S, Matthee CA 2012. Biome specificity of distinct genetic lineages within the four-striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Africa with implications for taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65 (1) 75-78

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312002187

Marker LL, Dickman AJ, Mills MGL, MacDonald DW 2003. Aspects of the management of cheetahs, Acinonyx jubatus jubatus, trapped on Namibian farmlands. Biodivers Conservation 114 (3) 401-412

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320703000685

Jackson JC, Duodu KG, Holse M, Lima de Faria MD, Jordaan D, Chingwaru W, Hansen A, Cencic A, Kandawa-Schultz M, Mpotokwane SM, Chimwamurombe P, de Kock HL, Minnaar A 2010. Chapter 5 – The Morama Bean (Tylosema esculentum): A Potential Crop for Southern Africa. Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 61 187-246

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123744685000052

Bercovitch FB, Bashaw MJ, del Castillo SM 2006. Sociosexual behavior, male mating tactics, and the reproductive cycle of giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis. Hormones and Behavior 50 (2) 314-321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X06000900

Magwedere K, Shilangale R, Mbulu RS, Hemberger Y, Hoffman LC, Dziva F 2013. Microbiological quality and potential public health risks of export meat from springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) in Namibia. Meat Science 93 (1) 73-78

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0309174012002744

Vetter W, Weichbrodt M, Scholz E, Luckas B, Oelschläger H 1999. Levels of Organochlorines (DDT, PCBs, Toxaphene, Chlordane, Dieldrin, and HCHs) in Blubber of South African Fur Seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) from Cape Cross/Namibia. Marine Pollution Bulletin 38 (9) 830-836

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X99000715

Pickford M 2004. Miocene Sanitheriidae (Suiformes, Mammalia) from Namibia and Kenya: systematic and phylogenetic implications. Annales de Paléontologie 90 (4) 223-278

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753396904000722

Chase BM, Scott L, Meadows ME, Gil-Romera G, Boom R, Carr AS, Reimer PJ, Truc L, Valsecchi V, Quick LJ 2012. Rock hyrax middens: A palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands. Quaternary Science Reviews 56 (21) 107-125

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379112003319?np=y

Rathbun GB, Rathbun CD 2006. Social monogamy in the noki or dassie-rat (Petromus typicus) in Namibia. Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 71 (4) 203-213

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1616504706000218

Rathburn GB, Cowley TE 2008. Behavioural ecology of the black mongoose (Galerella nigrata) in Namibia. Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 73 (6) 444-450

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Rapson SA, Goldizen AW, Seddon JM 2012. Species boundaries and possible hybridization between the black mongoose (Galerella nigrata) and the slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65 (3) 831-839

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312003144

Carter KD, Seddon JM, Frère CH, Carter JK, Goldizen AW 2013. Fission–fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences. Animal Behaviour 85 (2) 385-394

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347212005246

Child BA, Musengezi J, Parent GD, Child GFT 2012. The economics and institutional economics of wildlife on private land in Africa. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2 (18)

Website link:http://www.pastoralismjournal.com/content/2/1/18

Matson TK, Goldizen AW, Jarman PJ 2004. Factors affecting the success of translocations of the black-faced impala in Namibia. Biological Conservation 116 (3) 359-365

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320703002295

Giraffid, the official newsletter of the IUCN SSC Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group (GOSG). Giraffid

Website link:http://www.giraffeconservation.org/newsletters.php

Carter KD, Brand R, Carter JK, Shorrocks B, Goldizen AW 2013. Social networks, long-term associations and age-related sociability of wild giraffes. Animal Behaviour 86 (5) 901-910

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213003539

Scott L 1996. Palynology of hyrax middens: 2000 years of palaeoenvironmental history in Namibia. Quaternary International 33 73-79

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/1040618295000933

Hughes JJ, Ward D 1993. Predation risk and distance to cover affect foraging behaviour in Namib Desert gerbils. Animal Behaviour 46 (6) 1243-1245

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347283713205

Seymour RS, Seely MK 1996. The respiratory environment of the Namib Desert Golden Mole. Journal of Arid Environments 32 (4) 453-461

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396900385

Hill PSM 2006. How do animals use substrate-borne vibrations as an information source?. Naturwissenschaften 96 (12) 1355-1371

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-009-0588-8

Giere P, Zeller U 2005. Small Mammal Diversity and Reproduction Along a Transect in Namibia (Biota S 07). African Biodiversity 305-313

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-24320-8_30

Mills MGL 1990. Comparative foraging behaviour. Kalahari Hyenas 71-129

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-1244-4_3

Clousley-Thompson JL 1996. Community Processes. Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands 127-167

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60977-0_7

Nel JAJ, Loutit R, Braby R, Somers MJ 2013. Resource dispersion, territory size and group size of black-backed jackals on a desert coast. Acta Theriologica 58 (2) 189-197

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13364-012-0112-y

Buffstein R 1985. The effect of a high fibre diet on energy and water balance in two Namib desert rodents. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (2) 211-218

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00685215

Wiesel I 2010. Killing of Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) pups by brown hyenas (Parahyaena brunnea) at mainland breeding colonies along the coastal Namib Desert. Acta Ethologica 13 (2) 93-100

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10211-010-0078-1

Flora, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles and amphibians and invertebrates of the Farm Kyffhäuser #18, Maltahöhe District, Namibia.

Website link:http://www.kyffhauser.co.za/index.htm

Fielden LJ, Perrin MR, Hickman GC 1990. Feeding ecology and foraging behaviour of the Namib Desert golden mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 220 367-389

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1990.tb04313.x/abstract

Henschel JR, Tilson RL 1988. How much does a spotted hyaena eat: perspective from the Namib Desert. African Journal of Ecology 26 (4) 247-255

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1988.tb00977.x/abstract

Hamilton III WJ, Buskirk RE, Buskirk WH 1978. Omnivory and Utilization of Food Resources by Chacma Baboons, Papio ursinus. The American Naturalist 112 (987) 911-924

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2460166?uid=4&sid=21101912743693

Bradfield RD 1952. Descriptions of new races of Kalahari birds and mammals. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 23 (2) 127 - 128

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1952.9633018#.VRJylGc5ApE