Wild Dogs

Author : Jocelin Kagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1913159191

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Africa's Wild Dogs by Jocelin Kagan Pdf

There are roughly 6,600 wild dogs left in Africa yet they have cast such a spell on top wildlife photographer and naturalist Jocelin Kagan that she is determined to help save them. If left to their own devices, they are more than capable of thriving, as this sumptuous photographic natural history shows. Jocelin has called in world experts to add their latest findings about these resourceful, graceful and highly skilled family groups. Nomadic predators whose territories range thousands of kilometres, they hunt co-operatively, preying on small herbivores. Non-confrontational, they form complex bonds as this book reveals. Now restricted to small populations and threatened by some shoot-to-kill policies, habitat fragmentation, diseases from domestic dogs, climate change and snares, as well as natural predation from hyenas and lions, Africa's wild dogs will be supported by all the royalties from this book.

Author : Helen Humphreys
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443401531

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Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys Pdf

The author of the bestseller The Lost Garden returns with a luminous novel of intertwining stories that meet in a haunting, moving climax. Each evening at dusk, six people gather at the edge of the woods, calling their dogs to come back to them, dogs that have turned wild and vanished from their lives. Drawn together by need, the group forms its own small community—until violence strikes unexpectedly. Humphreys’ graceful writing, her superb eye for detail, her sensitivity and intelligence combine to produce an unforgettable story about the wild in all of us.

Author : Martin Kratt,Chris Kratt
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781984851116

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Wild Dogs and Canines! (Wild Kratts) by Martin Kratt,Chris Kratt Pdf

The Wild Kratts go in search of wolves, coyotes, and wild dogs of all sizes in this Step into Reading leveled reader with stickers! TARGET AUDIENCE: Nature, science, and animal fans ages four to six and their parents. PBS's successful animated show Wild Kratts joins the adventures of zoologists Chris and Martin Kratt as they travel to animal habitats around the globe. Along the way, they encounter incredible creatures while combining science education with fun. Children ages four to six can learn all about the wild cousins of man's best friend--from robust canines like wolves to sneaky foxes and more. Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories for beginning readers who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

Author : Scott Creel,Nancy Marusha Creel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691207001

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The African Wild Dog by Scott Creel,Nancy Marusha Creel Pdf

With only 5,000 surviving, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's most endangered large carnivores--and one of the most remarkable. This comprehensive portrait of wild dogs incorporates previously scattered information with important new findings from a six-year study in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, Africa's largest protected area. The book emphasizes ecology, concentrating on why wild dogs fare poorly in protected areas that maintain healthy populations of lions, hyenas, or other top carnivores. In addition to conservation issues, it covers fascinating aspects of wild dog behavior and social evolution. The Creels use demographic, behavioral, endocrine, and genetic approaches to examine how and why nonbreeding pack mates help breeding pairs raise their litters. They also present the largest data set ever collected on mammalian predator-prey interactions and the evolution of cooperative hunting, allowing them to account for wild dogs' prowess as hunters. By using a large sample size and sophisticated analytical tools, the authors step well beyond previous research. Their results include some surprises that will cause even specialists to rethink certain propositions, such as the idea that wild dogs are unusually vulnerable to infectious disease. Several findings apply broadly to the management of other protected areas. Of clear appeal to ecologists studying predation and cooperation in any population, this book collects and expands a cache of information useful to anyone studying conservation as well as to amateurs intrigued by the once-maligned but extraordinary wild dog.

Author : Michael Trant
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760146160

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Wild Dogs by Michael Trant Pdf

'Tough, fast and hard – my kind of book.' Lee Child In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners. Still coming to terms with his wife’s death – and the part he played in it – the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Amin, from certain execution. Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Amin's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. His main opponent is Chase Fowler, a kangaroo hunter with bush skills as wily and sharp as his own. As the old dogger and roo-shooter go head to head, Gabe will need all his cunning to come out of this alive... 'Wild Dogs is a just-one-more-chapter thriller that kept me up long after lights out.' Jack Heath 'Will leave you breathless. Wild Dogs is a wild ride, with some thought-provoking themes, unexpected twists, all set against a haunting landscape.’ Weekend Australian ‘This hard-bitten action novel reads like an Aussie western ... The book’s setting is atmospheric, and its action sequences surge with adrenaline and suspense as a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds.’ Sydney Morning Herald 'High octane, full throttle.’ Herald Sun

Author : Margot Raggett,Wildlife Photographers United
Publisher : Remembering Wildlife
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1999643356

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Remembering African Wild Dogs by Margot Raggett,Wildlife Photographers United Pdf

- Remembering African Wild Dogs is the stunning sixth book in the Remembering Wildlife charity series - The aim of the creators is to make the most beautiful photographic book ever seen on a species and to use that to raise awareness of the plight facing that animal and also funds to protect it - Remembering African Wild Dogs is full of images generously donated by many of the world's top wildlife photographers - All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to projects working to protect wild dogs in Africa - over $1 million USD has been raised by the series so farRemembering African Wild Dogs is the sixth book in the Remembering Wildlife fundraising series, which has so far raised more than USD $1 million for conservation. The aim of the creators is to make the most beautiful book ever seen on a species and use that to raise awareness of the plight facing that animal and funds to protect it. Each book is full of images generously donated by many of the world's top wildlife photographers and also gives an overview of the species, its distribution and the challenges it faces. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to projects working to protect wild dogs in Africa.

Author : Deborah Bird Rose
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813930916

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Wild Dog Dreaming by Deborah Bird Rose Pdf

We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth's systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom questions of extinction are up-close and very personal, Rose develops a mode of exposition that is dialogical, philosophical, and open-ended. An inspiration for Rose--and a touchstone throughout her book--is the endangered dingo of Australia. The dingo is not the first animal to face extinction, but its story is particularly disturbing because the threat to its future is being actively engineered by humans. The brazenness with which the dingo is being wiped out sheds valuable, and chilling, light on the likely fate of countless other animal and plant species. "People save what they love," observed Michael Soul , the great conservation biologist. We must ask whether we, as humans, are capable of loving--and therefore capable of caring for--the animals and plants that are disappearing in a cascade of extinctions. Wild Dog Dreaming engages this question, and the result is a bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire.

Author : Michael Trant
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760638702

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Ridgeview Station by Michael Trant Pdf

Many of Peter and Kelsie Dalton's friends thought they were crazy when they bought Ridgeview Station. But five years on, their hard work, help from Kelsie's parents, and record rainfall have them in high spirits as the summer muster approaches. Realising they're going to need more help this season, Peter rings around the neighbouring stations to try and find a good worker. After a glowing recommendation, Alexi arrives to give them a hand - and is not at all what they'd expected ... Everything is going smoothly with the muster before disaster strikes and the Dalton's find themselves battling to save their livestock, their property and their lives. An entertaining yarn set on a vast outback property peopled with colourful and authentic characters, Ridgeview Station is about love, loss and the spirit of the bush.

Author : World Book
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0716629453

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Wolves and Other Wild Dogs by World Book Pdf

Why do wolves live in packs? Why do wolves howl? Which wild dogs climb trees? Read this book to find out!

Author : Brendan Whittington-Jones
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : African wild dog
ISBN : 1431421294

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African Wild Dogs by Brendan Whittington-Jones Pdf

"450 is optimistically the number of free-ranging African wild dogs left in South Africa. If ever a charismatic, African species could be considered an underdog in the face of human development, the wild dog, Lycaon pictus is it. Available habitat is in short supply. An abundance of fences and roads cut the landscape. They are loved. They are despised. The immediate future of this dynamic, endangered, large carnivore is in the hands of a thinly spread, intensely committed network of conservationists, donors, state reserves and progressive landowners. When an opportunity to study wild dogs through the Endangered Wildlife Trust presented itself to Brendan Whittington-Jones in 2007, he arrived in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park naive to the challenges of real wildlife conservation. The next seven years were a flood of lessons in the complexity and fascination of wild dog management, anger management, Microsoft Office, diplomacy, optimism and how to play wild dog travel agent. The camaraderie of the unconventional crew of devoted field staff and researchers who dedicate so much to keep the species running was a revelation. This book lifts the gloss and illusion off a wedge of carnivore conservation, and reveals a snapshot of characters (human and canid) and organisations which tread the murky waters of trying to ensure the species' persistence in South Africa. There is only hope through action; and remembering a cold beer at sunset and good bloody laugh can restore a little sanity."--Back cover.

Author : Lesley J. Rogers,Gisela Kaplan,Gisela T. Kaplan
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Wild dogs
ISBN : 1865086738

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Spirit of the Wild Dog by Lesley J. Rogers,Gisela Kaplan,Gisela T. Kaplan Pdf

From the grey wolf to the dingo, the South American bush dog to the whistling hunter, wild dogs have been free spirits on every continent except Antarctica and have thrived in all environments. This is an up-to-date and highly readable account of the skills, personalities and lifestyles of these dogs.

Author : Rawi Hage
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735273641

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Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories. In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receives haunting news from the Persian Gulf. And in Berlin, a Lebanese writer forms a fragile, fateful bond with his voluble German neighbours. The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states—nation-states and states of mind—seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing and often random ways our fragile modern identities are constructed, destroyed, and reborn. Politically astute, philosophically wise, humane, relevant and caustically funny, these stories reveal the singular vision of award-winning writer Rawi Hage at his best.

Author : José R. Castelló
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691176857

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Canids of the World by José R. Castelló Pdf

The most complete and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world’s canids This stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world’s canids, from the Gray Wolf of North America to the dholes of Asia, from African jackals to the South American Bush Dog. It features more than 150 superb color plates depicting every kind of canid and detailed facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, morphology, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and conservation status in the wild. The book also includes distribution maps and tips on where to observe each species, making Canids of the World the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to these intriguing and spectacular mammals. Covers every species and subspecies of canid Features more than 150 color plates with more than 600 photos from around the globe Depicts species in similar poses for quick and easy comparisons Describes key identification features, habitat, behavior, reproduction, and much more Draws on the latest taxonomic research Includes distribution maps and tips on where to observe each species The ideal field companion and a delight for armchair naturalists

Author : IUCN/SSC Candid Specialist Group
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African wild dog
ISBN : 9782831704180

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The African Wild Dog by IUCN/SSC Candid Specialist Group Pdf

Over the last 30 years the African wild dog population has declined dramatically. Dogs have disappeared from 25 of the 39 countries where they were previously found, and only 6 populations are believed to number more than 100. Today it is believed that only between 3,000-5,500 dogs remain in 600-1,000 packs with most to be found in eastern and southern Africa. The dramatic reduction in their population is attributed to a number of factors including human population growth and activities, deterioration of habitat, and contact with domestic dogs and their diseases. This Action Plan explores some of the reasons behind their disappearance and provides a number of proposed solutions split into 3 priority areas, ranging from habitat management and conservation to monitoring domestic dogs.

Author : Nicholas Dyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999611039

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Painted Wolves by Nicholas Dyer Pdf