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Author : C Weston
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133022926
Animal Extinction & Conservation.
Author : G. A. Bradshaw
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300154917
“At times sad and at times heartwarming . . . Helps us to understand not only elephants, but all animals, including ourselves” (Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation). Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatized elephants have become aggressive against people, other animals, and even one another; their behavior is comparable to that of humans who have experienced genocide, other types of violence, and social collapse. By exploring the elephant mind and experience in the wild and in captivity, Bradshaw bears witness to the breakdown of ancient elephant cultures. But, she reminds us, all is not lost. People are working to save elephants by rescuing orphaned infants and rehabilitating adult zoo and circus elephants, using the same principles psychologists apply in treating humans who have survived trauma. Bradshaw urges us to support these and other models of elephant recovery and to solve pressing social and environmental crises affecting all animals—humans included. “This book opens the door into the soul of the elephant. It will really make you think about our relationship with other animals.” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation
Author : Sandy Pobst
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426303580
Stresses the importance of saving endangered species and discusses how scientists are using the latest technology to survey animal populations, to track down and arrest those who prey on endangered wildlife, and to breed animals in captivity.
Author : Marilyn Baillie,Jonathan Baillie
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : 1445106930
Join scientists on a journey of discovery to study and protect the world's most extraordinary and endangered animals.
Author : Arnoldus Schytte Blix
Publisher : Tapir Academic Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8251920507
Where and what is the Arctic? What animals live there, and how are they distributed? How do they cope with cold in their austere environment, and how can Arctic mammals survive birth when it is 40 degrees below freezing. How can seals dive to a depth of 1000 metres and stay submerged for more than an hour, and how does complete darkness in winter affect the inhabitants of the high Arctic? This book answers these questions and also gives an introduction to the Arctic. It is based on the author's 40 years of experience in the Arctic, its environment and animal life. As this book contains almost 200 illustrations and deals with the entire Arctic animal kingdom, it will be suitable as a textbook for courses in Arctic biology, and also serve specialists in the field. It is a reference book and a source of information about published original literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Endangered plants
ISBN : 0007419147
A unique guide to 365 of the world’s species on the IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List. Selected by a group of experts at the IUCN this list profiles a wide variety of species from the official list of threatened animal, fungi, and plant. Each of the species profiled is on the official IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.Animals and plants of all shapes and sizes are included. Discover more about these and many other threatened species. Find out what conservation methods are helping the Blue-throated Macaw, qhere the Pinta Island Tortoise once roamed, qhat efforts are being done to help the 47 remaining Floreana Mockingbirds, rhe reasons behind the dramatic lose of the Globosa Mangrove, and why the Javan Rhino is the world’s most endangered mammal. All 365 species profiled include the level of threat, from "Least Concern" to "Extinct in the Wild," authoritative descriptions of why the species is included on The Red List, a location map, and a stunning color photograph.
Author : Eric Kahn Gale
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062125187
From the author of The Bully Book comes a timeless story about a young boy, his father, and the world that comes between them, which New York Times–bestselling author Peter Lerangis called "magical, mysterious, fresh, original, and full of heart." Marlin is not slow, or mute; what he is is a stutterer, and that makes it impossible for him to convince people otherwise. What he is also is a Rackham: the younger son of the world-famous explorer Ronan Rackham, the owner and proprietor of the Zoo at the Edge of the World, a resort where the well-to-do from all over the globe can come to experience the last bit of the wild left at the end of the nineteenth century. In order to impress a powerful duke who comes to visit the zoo, Marlin's father ventures into the jungle and brings back a mysterious black jaguar, the only one in captivity. Everyone is terrified of it, including Marlin—until one night, when the jaguar confers upon him a powerful gift. Soon, Marlin finds himself with a difficult choice to make and, finally, something to say. If only he can figure out how to say it.
Author : Carl G. Thelander
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : UCSD:31822020646915
Author : Gregory Forth
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228000044
The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "a dog pissing at the edge of a path." In this first comprehensive study of animal metaphors in a non-Western society, Gregory Forth focuses on how the Nage understand metaphor and use their knowledge of animals to shape specific expressions. Based on extensive field research, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path explores the meaning and use of over 560 animal metaphors employed by the Nage. Investigating how closely their indigenous concept of pata péle corresponds to the Greek-derived English concept of metaphor, Forth demonstrates that the Nage people understand these figures of speech in the same way as Westerners – namely as conventional ways of speaking about people and objects, not expressions of an essential identity between their animal vehicles and human referents. Theoretically engaging with anthropology's recent ontological turn, the book considers whether metaphors reveal significant differences in conceptions of human-animal relations, the human-animal contrast, and human understanding of other humans in different parts of the world. An incredible catalogue of animal-based linguistic art and Nage verbal conventions, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path illuminates essential features of metaphorical thought everywhere.
Author : Betsy Rathburn
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781681037486
People have been using prosthetics for thousands of years. Today, animals use them too! And in the future, the cutting-edge technology of bionics will add even more possibilities. Readers of this high-interest title will explore the history of prosthetics, the technology available today, and what the future holds for bionics. Engaging text and interesting photos combine with a diagram, timeline, graph, and pro/con comparison to offer fascinating information about this amazing technology that benefits our animal friends!
Author : Colin Dayan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231540742
In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths of the humans who love them. Dayan reorients our ethical and political assumptions through a trans-species engagement that risks as much as it promises. She makes a powerful case for questioning what we think of as our deepest-held beliefs and, with dogs in the lead, unsettles the dubious promises of liberal humanism. Moving seamlessly between memoir, case law, and film, Dayan takes politics and animal studies in a new direction—one that gives us glimpses of how we can think beyond ourselves and with other beings. Her unconventional perspective raises hard questions and renews what it means for any animal or human to live in the twenty-first century. Nothing less than a challenge for us to confront violence and suffering even in the privileged precincts of modernity, this searing and lyrical book calls for another way to think the world. Theoretically sophisticated yet aimed at a broad readership, With Dogs at the Edge of Life illuminates how dogs—and their struggles—take us beyond sentimentality and into a form of thought that can make a difference to our lives.
Author : Sandy Pobst
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426303586
Stresses the importance of saving endangered species and discusses how scientists are using the latest technology to survey animal populations, to track down and arrest those who prey on endangered wildlife, and to breed animals in captivity.
Author : Mari Bolte
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781515769361
Amazing animal mash-ups will send artists with imaginations on a crazy quest of creativity! Giant squid or cute kitten? Why choose just one? Drawing has never been this much fun.
Author : John Starke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Animals
ISBN : 190262694X
"In this book will you meet some of the world's most striking wild animals in full-color 3-D" (publisher).
Author : Thom van Dooren
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231537445
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
