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This book was a graduation present when I got my PhD in biology. I was very happy to receive it. It is a great gift. Perhaps when at the end of my postdoc I'll get a Smithsonian Book on African Mammals.
I the meantime I'll leave you this video of me doing mammalogists do, getting excited over dead mammals!