Elephant Skull

Author : Henry Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Etching
ISBN : UCSC:32106015706515

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Elephant Skull by Henry Moore Pdf

Author : Jonathan Kingdon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988-12-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226437221

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East African Mammals by Jonathan Kingdon Pdf

Acclaimed and coveted by both naturalists and lovers of wildlife illustration, Jonathan Kingdon's seven-volume East African Mammals has become a classic of modern natural history. This paperback edition makes Kingdon's remarkable artistic and scientific achievement—his hundreds of drawings and perceptive study of all the mammals in East Africa's species-rich fauna—available to the wide audience it deserves. Volume IIIB celebrates the large mammals for which the African plains are so famous—elephants, rhinos, zebras, bushpigs, and warthogs, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains, giraffes. Kingdon brings his artist's eye to such puzzles as the zebra's stripes and the giraffe's spots, making original observations throughout the seven volumes about the evolutionary and functional significance of coat color, facial expressions, and curious forms and markings. The beauty of the animals, so vivid in these incomparable drawings, is made more poignant by the acknowledgment of their increasingly endangered status. Kingdon discusses the inevitable problems posed by large mammal communities in a developing continent and includes numerous maps indicating their declining ranges and populations.

Author : Jake McGowan-Lowe
Publisher : Ticktock Books, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1848988524

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Jake's Bones by Jake McGowan-Lowe Pdf

Jake McGowan-Lowe is a boy with a very unusual hobby. Since the age of 7, he has been photographing and blogging about his incredible finds and now has a worldwide following, including 100,000 visitors from the US and Canada. Follow Jake as he explores the animal world through this new 64-page book. He takes you on a world wide journey of his own collection, and introduces you to other amazing animals from the four corners of the globe. Find out what a cow's tooth, a rabbit's rib and a duck's quack look like and much, much more besides.

Author : Nigel Rothfels
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421442600

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Elephant Trails by Nigel Rothfels Pdf

Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including municipal documents, zoo records, museum collections, and encounters with people who have lived with elephants, Rothfels seeks out the origins of our contemporary ideas about an animal that has been central to so much of human thought. He explains how notions that have been associated with elephants for centuries—that they are exceptionally wise, deeply emotional, and have a special understanding of death; that they never forget, are beloved of the gods, and suffer unusually in captivity; and even that they are afraid of mice—all tell part of the story of these amazing beings. Exploring the history of a skull in a museum, a photograph of an elephant walking through the American South in the early twentieth century, the debate about the quality of life of a famous elephant in a zoo, and the accounts of elephant hunters, Rothfels demonstrates that elephants are not what we think they are—and they never have been. Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520942943

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Elephant Reflections by Dale Peterson Pdf

Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely aesthetic to the informative, depicting animals who are at once enigmatic, individual, mysterious, elusive, and iconic. In riveting prose, Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their recent astonishing discoveries. He then explores the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics of ivory. Elephant Reflections is a book that could change the way the world thinks about elephants while we still have some measure of control over their fate.

Author : William King Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Elephants
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107347999

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Adaptive Significance of the Shortening of the Elephant's Skull by William King Gregory Pdf

Author : William Temple Hornaday
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Asia
ISBN : IND:30000112677632

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Two Years in the Jungle by William Temple Hornaday Pdf

Author : Henry Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520231619

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Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations by Henry Moore Pdf

"For both admirers and students of Henry Moore's work, this book will be a blessing. Moore's humanity and intelligence make this compendium a plea-sure to dip into as well as scholarly and comprehensive."--Roger Berthoud, author of The Life of Henry Moore "Alan Wilkinson has trawled the rich material with exemplary thoroughness.... The nature and purpose of Moore's writing is illuminated. The introduction reflects Wilkinson's long friendship with Moore, and the commentary and notes testify to a remarkable knowledge of the artist's work, his circle and his ideas."--Sir Alan Bowness, editor of the Henry Moore Complete Sculpture Series

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Children's literature, English
ISBN : PRNC:32101064462052

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Atalanta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:B3844665

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Studies in Life and Sense by Andrew Wilson Pdf

Author : Henry Moore,Gérald Cramer,Alistair Grant,David Mitchinson
Publisher : Geneva : G. Cramer
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39076006103878

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Henry Moore, Catalogue of Graphic Work: 1931-1972 by Henry Moore,Gérald Cramer,Alistair Grant,David Mitchinson Pdf

Author : Chris Stuart,Mathilde Stuart
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781775847274

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Skullduggery by Chris Stuart,Mathilde Stuart Pdf

In this short but informative guide, trusted authors Chris and Mathilde Stuart turn mammal ID on its head – literally. The identification of mammal skulls is the subject of this latest addition to the quirky ‘Quick Guide’ series, and covers the most common skulls readers are likely to encounter in the wild – from easily recognisable species such as elephant, hippo, rhino, baboons, antelope, whales and dolphins, to the more challenging family groups: dogs, cats, hyaenas, equids, pigs, civets and genets, mongooses, rats and mice, bats, sengis, shrews, moles, hares and rabbits, hyrax, and squirrels. Each entry features: Close-up photographs showing the entire skull, teeth and, where available, upper and lower jaws; Pointers to diagnostic features; Average measurement for skull length; Short description highlighting main features of each skull and tooth structure; Dental formula for teeth in upper and lower jaws. A brief introduction, with labelled photographs, covers anatomy as well as dentition; and a quick-reference photographic key to the main animal groups appears on the inside front cover.

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691245607

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The First Fossil Hunters by Adrienne Mayor Pdf

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.

Author : Shirley Kaufman,Henry Moore
Publisher : Unicorn Press (CA)
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106005641771

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Looking at Henry Moore's Elephant Skull Etchings in Jerusalem During the War by Shirley Kaufman,Henry Moore Pdf

Author : George P. Sanderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Elephants
ISBN : MINN:319510024136088

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Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India by George P. Sanderson Pdf