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A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS PLACING THE HUMAN - WOLF RELATIONSHIP IN
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE International in range and chronological in
organisation, this volume aims to grasp the maincurrents of thought
about interactions with the wolf in modern history. It focuses on
perceptions, interactions and dependencies, and includes cultural
and social analyses as well as biological aspects. Wolves have been
feared and admired, hunted and cared for. At the same historical
moment, different cultural and social groups have upheld widely
diverging ideas about the wolf. Fundamental dichotomies in modern
history, between nature and culture, wilderness and civilisation
and danger and security, have been portrayed in terms of wolf -
human relationships. The wolf has been part of aesthetic, economic,
political, psychological and cultural reasoning albeit it is
nowadays mainly addressed as an object of wildlife management.
There has been a major shift in perception from dangerous predator
to endangered species, but the big bad fairytale wolf remains a
cultural icon.
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Owls
(Hardcover)
Heimo Mikkola
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R3,307
Discovery Miles 33 070
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'This wonderful book is essential reading for all children with
furry best friends, written in a way that is very easy to follow
and great fun!' - Kate Silverton My name is Steve Mann and I have
THE COOLEST JOB IN THE WORLD! As a dog trainer, I get to work with
our fantastic furry friends every single day. Now, I want to teach
YOU how you can become an AWESOME PAWSOME dog trainer too! As well
as all the essential skills such as Sit, Down and walking nicely on
a lead, you'll also get to learn... - How to teach your dog to MAKE
THEIR OWN BED! - How your dog's nose will help you find HIDDEN
TREASURE! - Why DOGS ARE THE BEST! This book is filled with easy,
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You'll soon be qualified as an AWESOME PAWSOME dog trainer and,
best of all, you and your dog will become the BEST TEAM-MATES ...
while always HAVING FUN! The must-have book for any family with a
dog and kids living under the same woof - ahem - roof!
How many fingers do you have? How many toes? This engaging book
teaches beginning readers how to count the parts of their bodies.
Engage students in reading as they develop their early childhood
literacy skills. With TIME For Kids content, this full-color book
is aligned to state and national standards, and introduces students
to simple informational text features.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds,
a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent
scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding
of birds -- how they live and how they think. "There is the mammal
way and there is the bird way." But the bird way is much more than
a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken
a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as
anomalies or mysteries -- What they are finding is upending the
traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they
communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing
the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities
we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation,
cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication
between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and
play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological
conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother
bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly
tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird
that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species-ours-but
parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and
birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their
creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to
keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special
call-and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness
and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations,
the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world,
from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote
woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria
and the islands of Alaska's Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows
there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in
plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds
vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when
you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
The Inductive Brain in Development and Evolution provides readers
with a substantial biological education on animal nervous systems
and their role in the development, adaptation, homeostasis, and
evolution of species. The book begins by delving into the embryonic
development of the brain and then discusses epigenetic information
and neural activity post-birth. It then analyzes the inductive
brain's neural and brain control of such factors like myogenesis,
bone development, sensory organs, metamorphosis in vertebrates and
invertebrates, and wing development in insects. The book closes
with an examination of phenotypic evolution in neural control,
mechanisms, and drivers of animal brains. The Inductive Brain in
Development and Evolution will offer evolutionary biologists,
specifically those researching development, adaptation, and
evolution of animals, a comprehensive text that covers a variety of
valuable topics.
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