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pbjosh
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Do you know this or are you conjecturing? Genuine question.
All the Mammals of the World is coming in July 2023 :
All the Mammals of the World – Lynx Nature Books
All the Mammals of the World – Lynx Nature Books
Andy Adcock
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Rinsing the profit from existing artworks.
I hope they will eventually have made enough that they can produce something interesting
Niels
Melanie
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I think so because there were several new mammal descriptions in the past three years.
twilighter
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I asked Lynx in FB and they answered, that they will not follow the Ungulate Taxonomy from the previous works. More details about the book can be found here:
All the mammals of the world – Lynx Nature Books
All the mammals of the world – Lynx Nature Books
More then 10 years too late, but better late then never... I know it won't happen, but if they would rerelease volume 2 with sane taxonomy and volume 3 with the new illustrations, I would exchange my original copies in a heartbeat...
Andy Adcock
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Of course they won't, that won't sell any books!
twilighter
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Honestly, I think that this edition targets more common public, that don't bother how many Klipspringers are out there
Nevertheless I appreciate the change, because most of us who have the full HMW & HBW collection, will buy the book anyway. I am also happy that we will finally see the common names next to the illustrations. Something that I missed a lot in previous books.
Nopes, the illustrated checklist still listed (basically) all the bogus Bovidae splits, the current book follows the mammal diversity database which doesn't accept these splits.
Melanie
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There will be new illustrations of marmosets and tamarins.
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Interestingly neither All the Mammals of the World nor the ASM Database recognize the genus Leontocebus which was split from Saguinus in 2016 (Anthony B. Rylands, Eckhard W. Heymann, Jessica Lynch Alfaro, Janet C. Buckner, Christian Roos, Christian Matauschek, Jean P. Boubli, Ricardo Sampaio, Russell A. Mittermeier: Taxonomic Review of the New World Tamarins (Primates: Callitrichidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2016 DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12386)
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Interestingly neither All the Mammals of the World nor the ASM Database recognize the genus Leontocebus which was split from Saguinus in 2016 (Anthony B. Rylands, Eckhard W. Heymann, Jessica Lynch Alfaro, Janet C. Buckner, Christian Roos, Christian Matauschek, Jean P. Boubli, Ricardo Sampaio, Russell A. Mittermeier: Taxonomic Review of the New World Tamarins (Primates: Callitrichidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2016 DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12386)
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Melanie
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Today I've got my copy of All the Mammals of the World. It is rather similar to All the Birds of the World but my wish that the newly added or newly described mammal species would got longer text accounts was not fullfilled. A big plus of this book is that all the species got German common names (this was not the case in All the Birds of the World). BTW you can download a nice poster (PDF format) with illustrations of critically endangered mammals for free. You have to go to this page: Home | Lynx Edicions, leave your email-address and use this code: AMW23.
I ended up buying All the Mammals of the world , mainly for the new primate illustrations (so much better) and the proper bovid taxonomy, as well as to see what has happened since HMW was published. While the book looks stunning it seems it has suffered from the same errors as the original series did, which mostly comes down to shoddy editing. In flicking through the pages I quickly noted some errors and I am sure I can find many more if I look closely:
This book really could have done with a longer timeline and better editing, but is a remarkable book nonetheless for its sheer volume.
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs supposedly don't occur anymore in Ankarafantsika NP and surrounding area, whereas they most certainly do. With all the (over)splitting going on in Malagasy primates, checking range maps was apparently not a priority.
- Whereas many distribution texts mention introduced populations, the book fails to note that musk rats are all over Europe...
- The distribution map of western tree hyrax still includes the range of D. interfluvialis which is split in this book, giving the illusion these species overlap, while the maps from the original publication show no range overlap.
This book really could have done with a longer timeline and better editing, but is a remarkable book nonetheless for its sheer volume.
I am glad I am not learning German animal names with this book as they are full of errors and outdated names. Noticed quite a lot of errors in the Spanish bovid names too (basically everywhere where a lump occured). Why does the entire HMW series feel so rushed that such errors just keep popping up. I had the impression the editing standards of the bird series were a lot higher.
The book is very good, I'm very happy that they made new primates plates.
Concerning the extinct species too bad there are no plates for them. At least wel known species like thylacine should have deserved a plate.
No plate for domestic mammals too so in a book with all mammals you dont' have an illustration of dromedary camel !
Concerning the extinct species too bad there are no plates for them. At least wel known species like thylacine should have deserved a plate.
No plate for domestic mammals too so in a book with all mammals you dont' have an illustration of dromedary camel !
Wish Lynx would come up with All the Domesticated Mammals of the World or / and All the Domesticated Animals of the World so that we can have a solid reference of what humans have "created" in the last 5,000 years !
P.S.
Just got to know that earliest dates suggested for the domestication of the goat goes back to 12,000 years ago !
So, definitely Domesticated Mammals and Animals have a solid history with humans which goes back to many many thousand years.
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