Wolf-hunting and Wild Sport in Lower Brittany
Author : Edward William Lewis Davies
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Hunting
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Author : Edward William Lewis Davies
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Hunting
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2024-01-29
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ISBN : 3385249937
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : L. David Mech
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 022625514X
The wolf is an adept killer, able to take down prey much larger than itself. While adapted to hunt primarily hoofed animals, a wolf - or especially a pack of wolves - can kill individuals of just about any species. Combining behavioral data, thousands of hours of original field observations, research in the literature, a wealth of illustrations, and - in the e-book edition and online - video segments from cinematographer Robert K. Landis, the authors create a compelling and complex picture of these hunters.
Author : Edward William L. Davies
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : L. David Mech
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 022625528X
The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature—displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting—or more infamous, more misjudged—than the wolf. Because of wolves’ habitat, speed, and general success at evading humans, researchers have faced great obstacles in studying their natural hunting behaviors. The first book to focus explicitly on wolf hunting of wild prey, Wolves on the Hunt seeks to fill these gaps in our knowledge and understanding. Combining behavioral data, thousands of hours of original field observations, research in the literature, a wealth of illustrations, and—in the e-book edition and online—video segments from cinematographer Robert K. Landis, the authors create a compelling and complex picture of these hunters. The wolf is indeed an adept killer, able to take down prey much larger than itself. While adapted to hunt primarily hoofed animals, a wolf—or especially a pack of wolves—can kill individuals of just about any species. But even as wolves help drive the underlying rhythms of the ecosystems they inhabit, their evolutionary prowess comes at a cost: wolves spend one-third of their time hunting—the most time consuming of all wolf activities—and success at the hunt only comes through traveling long distances, persisting in the face of regular failure, detecting and taking advantage of deficiencies in the physical condition of individual prey, and through ceaseless trial and error, all while risking injury or death. By describing and analyzing the behaviors wolves use to hunt and kill various wild prey—including deer, moose, caribou, elk, Dall sheep, mountain goats, bison, musk oxen, arctic hares, beavers, and others—Wolves on the Hunt provides a revelatory portrait of one of nature’s greatest hunters.
Author : Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)
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Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
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Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Periodicals
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Author : Glenn Hooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351911651
Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics. Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender, 'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across the Humanities.
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Page : 1540 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Bibliography
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.