Wild Life in Tanganyika: A Consideration of Animals and their Habitats

Desmond Foster-Vesey-FitzGerald

doi:10.1017/S0030605300037078

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A study of the vegetation map of Tanganyika, Gillman, 1949, reveals three main plant associations. In the northern division the predominating vegetation is bush and thicket, wooded grassland and grassland. Here much Acacia country and scenery reminiscent of Kenya will be found. The other divisions are the western and south-eastern where the familiar catena—woodland, wooded grassland, valley grassland—is repeatedly represented.

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