ABSTRACT
The quantity of animal protein so produced is a considerable food resource for totally or partially carnivorous animals, namely the Carnivora and Man. The improvement of various methods of evaluating large wild-animal populations has permitted the accretion during the past five years of substantial quantitative data which indicate in a particularly striking manner the large inequality of population density of big game in the different vegetation zones of tropical Africa. Of all the continents, tropical Africa is remarkable in the richness and abundance of its mammalian fauna. One can probably never estimate the population density of the various Pleistocene African ungulates. But if they are admitted to have been at least as important as those in certain parts of the continent still protected against modern man's intervention, it is possible to attempt a minimal estimation which has every chance of approximating the actual.
