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Author : Durward Leon Allen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 047208237X
A lively study of the relationship between predator and prey
Author : S.K. Robisch
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874177749
The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art, and psychology. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf’s importance as a figure in literature from the perspectives of both the animal’s physical reality and the ways in which writers imagine and portray it. Author S. K. Robisch examines more than two hundred texts written in North America about wolves or including them as central figures. From this foundation, he demonstrates the wolf’s role as an archetype in the collective unconscious, its importance in our national culture, and its ecological value. Robisch takes a multidisciplinary approach to his study, employing a broad range of sources: myths and legends from around the world; symbology; classic and popular literature; films; the work of scientists in a number of disciplines; human psychology; and field work conducted by himself and others. By combining the fundamentals of scientific study with close readings of wide-ranging literary texts, Robisch astutely analyzes the correlation between actual, living wolves and their representation on the page and in the human mind. He also considers the relationship between literary art and the natural world, and argues for a new approach to literary study, an ecocriticism that moves beyond anthropocentrism to examine the complicated relationship between humans and nature.
Author : Rolf Olin Peterson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0472032615
A new edition of a classic: the compelling firsthand account of an ancient predator-prey relationship---the Isle Royale wolf and moose dynamic
Author : Jon T. Coleman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300133370
Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves’ misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans’ thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier. Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park. Why did Americans hate wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America—and of the humans who have hated and then loved them—Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding.
Author : Jennifer Wolch,Jody Emel
Publisher : Verso
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1859841376
Each year, billions of animals are poisoned, dissected, displaced, killed for consumption, or held in captivity to be discarded as soon as their utility to humans has waned. The animal world has never been under greater peril. A broad-ranging collection of essays, this publication contributes to a re-thinking about humans' relation to animals.
Author : Peter Steinhart
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307798480
As wolves return to their old territory in Yellowstone National Park, their presence is reawakening passions as ancient as their tangled relations with human beings. This authoritative and eloquent book coaxes the wolf out from its camouflage of myth and reveals the depth of its kinship with humanity, which shares this animal's complex complex social organization, intense family ties, and predatory streak.
Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295989938
Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan's long history. Grain farmers once worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching the elusive canine to protect their crops from the sharp hooves and voracious appetites of wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms adorned with images of wolves protected against fire, disease, and other calamities and brought fertility to agrarian communities and to couples hoping to have children. The Ainu people believed that they were born from the union of a wolflike creature and a goddess. In the eighteenth century, wolves were seen as rabid man-killers in many parts of Japan. Highly ritualized wolf hunts were instigated to cleanse the landscape of what many considered as demons. By the nineteenth century, however, the destruction of wolves had become decidedly unceremonious, as seen on the island of Hokkaido. Through poisoning, hired hunters, and a bounty system, one of the archipelago's largest carnivores was systematically erased. The story of wolf extinction exposes the underside of Japan's modernization. Certain wolf scientists still camp out in Japan to listen for any trace of the elusive canines. The quiet they experience reminds us of the profound silence that awaits all humanity when, as the Japanese priest Kenko taught almost seven centuries ago, we "look on fellow sentient creatures without feeling compassion."
Author : Yellowstone National Park,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Animal introduction
ISBN : UOM:39015037352005
Vol. 3-4 edited by John D. Varley and Wayne G. Brewster; Sarah E. Broadbent and Renee Evanoff, technical editors.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Animal introduction
ISBN : MINN:31951P003758572
Author : L. David Mech
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816629595
For more than nine years the wolves in Alaska's Denali National Park were the subject of intense research by a group of renowned scientists led by L. David Mech. The result of their work is the most comprehensive study of a population of wolves and their prey ever available. This accessible, fascinating, and extensively illustrated book will appeal to researchers, general readers, and wolf enthusiasts across the world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Wildlife management
ISBN : MINN:31951D012122788
Author : Adrian P. Wydeven,Timothy R. van Deelen,Edward Heske
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780387859521
In this book, we document and evaluate the recovery of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The Great Lakes region is unique in that it was the only portion of the lower 48 states where wolves were never c- pletely extirpated. This region also contains the area where many of the first m- ern concepts of wolf conservation and research where developed. Early proponents of wolf conservation such as Aldo Leopold, Sigurd Olson, and Durward Allen lived and worked in the region. The longest ongoing research on wolf–prey relations (see Vucetich and Peterson, Chap. 3) and the first use of radio telemetry for studying wolves (see Mech, Chap. 2) occurred in the Great Lakes region. The Great Lakes region is the first place in the United States where “Endangered” wolf populations recovered. All three states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan) developed ecologically and socially sound wolf conservation plans, and the federal government delisted the population of wolves in these states from the United States list of endangered and threatened species on March 12, 2007 (see Refsnider, Chap. 21). Wolf management reverted to the individual states at that time. Although this delisting has since been challenged, we believe that biological recovery of wolves has occurred and anticipate the delisting will be restored. This will be the first case of wolf conservation reverting from the federal government to the state conser- tion agencies in the United States.
Author : Stephen Spotte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107015197
The first comprehensive assessment of societies of gray wolves and free-ranging dogs, with an emphasis on behavioral ecology.
Author : L. David Mech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Gray wolf
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977962L
Author : H. Frank
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9061936144
