Meerkat Manor: Flower Of The Kalahari

Meerkat Manor: Flower Of The Kalahari

by TimClutton-Brock (Author)

Synopsis

MEERKAT MANOR is the true-life story of Flower, the heroine of the successful television series, and the dominant female of Whiskers group. Through words and superb photographs, the reader becomes closely involved in the life-or-death struggles, just like a soap opera, of this curiously attractive tribe. MEERKAT MANOR not only describes what meerkats do, but explains why they do it, providing important insights into the working of other animal societies, including humans. 'They look cute and their teamwork has led some to suggest they are ideal role models for humans, but ...if MEERKAT MANOR is billed as a soap opera, it is one scripted by Quentin Tarantino' Mail on Sunday.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 30 Oct 2008

ISBN 10: 0753823144
ISBN 13: 9780753823149
Book Overview: MEERKAT MANOR was a hugely successful television series. It attracted sensational viewing figures. It is soon to be a major feature film. The author is the originator and director of the Meerkat Research Project in the Kalahari. MEERKAT MANOR is an engaging and informative book about these animals, telling us of a world which appears to mirror our own but is in fact driven by the sometimes savage instincts of self-interest and survival. The BBC Natural History Unit that created Blue Planet and Planet Earth is producing a full-length feature film based on the hugely successful precedent of The March of the Penguins, backed by Harvey Weinstein's Weinstein Company.

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Illuminating... wonderful stills from the series illustrate the book, which includes an enormous amount of background detail GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Author Bio
Tim Clutton-Brock is Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on the evolution of animal breeding systems and he has studied red deer on the Isle of Rum, Soay sheep on the island of St Kilda and the Meerkats in the southern Kalahari. He is the founder-director of the Kalahari Meerkat project where his contributions to our understanding of animals is based on patient observation in the field. The series of films for television based on his research have become widespread and popular viewing.