Cargando…
The better to eat you with : fear in the animal world /
Can naive animals avoid extinction when they encounter reintroduced carnivores? To what extent is fear culturally transmitted? And how can a better understanding of current predator-prey behavior help demystify past extinctions and inform future conservation? The Better to Eat You With is the chroni...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The wolf is at the door
- who's afraid?
- The shy giant of the forest
- A tropical primate in Alaska
- Emissaries of a dying epoch
- Subarctic shadows
- To know thy enemy
- Among the naive
- A tiger east of the sun
- A continent of virgins and recent ghosts
- On being caribou and musk ox
- Islands of ice and innocence
- Changing the rules of engagement
- Nomads of the Gobi
- The silent cats of Patagonia
- A credibility conundrum
- Different sides of the Darwinian divide
- Of fear and culture.