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Trash Animals : How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species /
In this book, a diverse group of environmental writers explore the natural history of wildlife species deemed filthy, invasive, or worthless, highlighting the vexed relationship humans have with such creatures. Each essay focuses on a so-called trash species - gulls, coyotes, carp, and magpies, amon...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The symbolic trash animal. See gull : cultural blind spots and the disappearance of the ring-billed gull in Toronto / Gavan P.L. Watson ; Hunger makes the wolf / Charles Bergman ; Beauty and the beast / Catherine Puckett ; Managing apocalypse : a cultural history of the Mormon cricket / Christina Robertson
- The native trash animal. One nation under coyote, divisible / Lisa Couturier ; Prairie dog and prejudice / Kelsi Nagy ; Nothing says trash like packrats : nature boy meets bushy tail / Michael P. Branch
- The invasive trash animal. Canadas : from conservation success to flying carp / Bernard Quetchenbach ; The Bard's bird; or, The slings and arrows of avicultural hegemony : a tragicomedy in five acts / Charles Mitchell ; Fly-fishing for carp as a deeper aesthetics / Phillip David Johnson II
- The urban trash animal. Metamorphosis in Detroit / Carolyn Kraus ; Kach'i : garbage birds in a hybrid landscape / James E. Bishop ; Flying rats / Andrew D. Blechman
- Moving beyond trash. Kill the cat that kills the bird? / Bruce Barcott ; An unlimited take of ugly : the bullhead catfish / Kyhl Lyndgaard ; A six-legged guru : fear and loathing in nature / Jeffrey A. Lockwood ; The parables of the rats and mice / Kathleen Dean Moore.