Raubwild und Dickhäuter in Deutsch-Ostafrika

Spending fourteen years travelling through German East Africa, the author recorded the daily lives of the region’s most iconic animals. Accompanied by camera and rifle, he documented how lions stalk the savanna, leopards slip through the underbrush, and hyenas and wild dogs hunt in packs. The opening explains why observations in the wild differ sharply from zoo displays.

The work is split into two parts. The first surveys predators – lions, leopards, spotted hyenas, striped jackals and wild dogs – describing their hunting tactics, social structures and seasonal movements. The second turns to the massive herbivores, offering sketches of hippos in riverine haunts, notes on elephant trails, and accounts of local traditional hunts.

Illustrated with original photographs and detailed drawings, the narrative brings the sounds and dust of the African plains to the ear. Listeners will hear anecdotes of river‑side hippo battles, a lion pride’s chase, and the subtle signs that tell a tracker where a herd has passed. The book offers a rare early‑20th‑century window into a landscape that has changed dramatically.