eGuide to Mammals of Southern Africa

Great images valuable info for tracking animals including their tracks and poop Nice audio and video would like more I use this all the time                 Great resource

A big improvement from the previous version which had been nearly abandoned Pros o A fine program to give you an overview of South African animals Lots of data lots of maps lots of pictures Many have movies or sounds o Easy to use works well doesnt crash Negatives o Theres no real search engine for doing reverse lookups You can look up a picture of a Pipistrelle but if you dont know what your animal is in the first place it wont help you figure it out Im not a biologist and have never heard of these things they look like a kind of bat o If theres no sounds for this animal the screen still has the player taking up a lot of real estate with No Sounds Available in bold across it Thats silly o A lot of the animals still dont have sound recording they have three kinds of zebras listed here but none have recordings Huh Go to any zoo and you can hear the zebras from a mile away Its not hard to find a recording o A lot of the photos are of ANIMAL CARCASSES Huh Who wants to see a picture of a dead mole Go to the Arends Golden Mole page and the photo shows 14 dead moles with an arrow pointing to one of them There are a ton of the photos that are like this and they are stupid and useless Want to know what a Natal Red Rock Rabbit looks like Good luck This will show you a stretched out carcass on a road some poop and a sketch of its footprint The text goes on to say that the distribution map here is important which I guess it is but still is it not possible to get a decent picture at all o The best photo they can find of a lion is of male humping a female in the middle of a road And its backlit so you cant see anything either Seriously come on The photos have been improved with the recent update but there are still a lot of awful ones o Some of the photos show only the head eg Ruppells Pipistrelle I can tell it has big teeth and big ears what else o Some sloppy programming Go to the Tracks pages and all of the titles say Title up top Be aware that with this update the app size has grown from something like 100 MB to 900 MB Thats because a lot of video was added I think thats good but it would be nice to make that an optional download The Sasol eBirds Guide to South African Birds app is based on the same engine from the same company This app isnt as good as that one eBirds is more complete and consistent with better figures but the gap has been closed a bit           Getting better