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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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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, among others - examining the biology and behavior of each in contrast to the assumptions widely held about them. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Animal ecology. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00809150 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Animal behavior. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00809079 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a SCIENCE |x Life Sciences |x Zoology |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Écologie animale. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Relations homme-animal. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Animal behavior. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Animal ecology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human-animal relationships. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Johnson, Phillip David, |c II, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Nagy, Kelsi, |e editor. | |
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