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Author: Janet Vorwald Dohner Publisher: Storey Publishing ISBN: 1612126995 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Learn to identify threatening species through tracks, scat, and the damage they leave behind. Fascinating profiles of more than 50 predatory mammals, birds, and reptiles teach farmers, ranchers, homesteaders, and backyard-animal raisers how to prevent their livestock, poultry, and pets from becoming prey. By understanding how predators think and behave, where and how they live, and how they attack and kill prey, you’ll be able to interpret the potential threats surrounding your home. Whether you have a vested interest in protecting your pets and livestock or are simply spellbound by wild predators, this is the book for you!
Author: Janet Vorwald Dohner Publisher: Storey Publishing ISBN: 1612126995 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Learn to identify threatening species through tracks, scat, and the damage they leave behind. Fascinating profiles of more than 50 predatory mammals, birds, and reptiles teach farmers, ranchers, homesteaders, and backyard-animal raisers how to prevent their livestock, poultry, and pets from becoming prey. By understanding how predators think and behave, where and how they live, and how they attack and kill prey, you’ll be able to interpret the potential threats surrounding your home. Whether you have a vested interest in protecting your pets and livestock or are simply spellbound by wild predators, this is the book for you!
Author: Paul A. Trout Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1616145021 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 316
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In this illuminating and evocative exploration of the origin and function of storytelling, the author goes beyond the work of mythologist Joseph Campbell, arguing that mythmaking evolved as a cultural survival strategy for coping with the constant fear of being killed and eaten by predators. Beginning nearly two million years ago in the Pleistocene era, the first stories, Trout argues, functioned as alarm calls, warning fellow group members about the carnivores lurking in the surroundings. At the earliest period, before the development of language, these rudimentary "stories" would have been acted out. When language appeared with the evolution of the ancestral human brain, stories were recited, memorized, and much later written down as the often bone-chilling myths that have survived to this day. This book takes the reader through the landscape of world mythology to show how our more recent ancestors created myths that portrayed animal predators in four basic ways: as monsters, as gods, as benefactors, and as role models. Each incarnation is a variation of the fear-management technique that enabled early humans not only to survive but to overcome their potentially incapacitating fear of predators. In the final chapter, Trout explores the ways in which our visceral fear of predators is played out in the movies, where both animal and human predators serve to probe and revitalize our capacity to detect and survive danger. Anyone with an interest in mythology, archaeology, folk tales, and the origins of contemporary storytelling will find this book an exciting and provocative exploration into the natural and psychological forces that shaped human culture and gave rise to storytelling and mythmaking.
Author: Janet Vorwald Dohner Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1612127002 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Learn to identify threatening species through tracks, scat, and the damage they leave behind. Fascinating profiles of more than 50 predatory mammals, birds, and reptiles teach farmers, ranchers, homesteaders, and backyard-animal raisers how to prevent their livestock, poultry, and pets from becoming prey. By understanding how predators think and behave, where and how they live, and how they attack and kill prey, you’ll be able to interpret the potential threats surrounding your home. Whether you have a vested interest in protecting your pets and livestock or are simply spellbound by wild predators, this is the book for you!
Author: Ada Spada Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company ISBN: 9781600591501 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 58
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Explores several of the physical features that enable animals to capture and kill prey, and to defend themselves from their own predators.
Author: Guy Beauchamp Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 0128019948 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 267
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Animal Vigilance builds on the author's previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function of vigilance. Animal vigilance has been at the forefront of research on animal behavior for many years, but no comprehensive review of this topic has existed. Students of animal behavior have focused on many aspects of animal vigilance, from models of its adaptive value to empirical research in the laboratory and in the field. The vast literature on vigilance is widely dispersed with often little contact between models and empirical work and between researchers focusing on different taxa such as birds and mammals. Animal Vigilance fills this gap in the available material. - Tackles vigilance from all angles, theoretical and empirical, while including the broadest range of species to underscore unifying themes - Discusses several newer developments in the area, such as vigilance copying and effect of food density - Highlights recent challenges to assumptions of traditional models of vigilance, such as the assumption that vigilance is independent among group members, which is reviewed during discussion of synchronization and coordination of vigilance in a group - Written by a top expert in animal vigilance
Author: Steve Parker Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP ISBN: 1482450089 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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Seeing a wolf stalking its prey would be almost impossible to witness up close. It wouldnt be safe to be so near such a deadly predators jaws when its on the hunt! But in this book, readers can see wolves, owls, and many more terrifying predators do what they do bestcapture prey. Up-close, full-color photographs highlight the sharp teeth, long claws, and huge paws of some of the worlds deadliest animals. Fact boxes include fascinating information about animal bodies and behavior and statistics about each animals size, range, and lifespan.
Author: Mary Packard Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 078798664X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 43
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Describes the habits and habitats of extreme animals around the world including the peregrine falcon, hammerhead shark, and deep-sea anglerfish.
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