American Serengeti : The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains /

"America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred yea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wolf
Präriewolf
Pferd
Grizzlybär
Gabelbock
Bison
Wildlife conservation.
Predatory animals.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Natural history.
Human-animal relationships.
Herbivores.
Environmental degradation.
Ecology.
Animals.
NATURE > Animals > Bears.
NATURE > Animals > Wolves.
NATURE > Endangered Species.
Faune > Protection > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Environnement > Degradation > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Relations homme-animal > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Sciences naturelles > Grandes Plaines.
Predateurs > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Herbivores > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Wildlife conservation > Great Plains > History.
Environmental degradation > Great Plains > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Great Plains > History.
Human-animal relationships > Great Plains > History.
Natural history > Great Plains.
Predatory animals > Great Plains > History.
Herbivores > Great Plains > History.
Animals > Great Plains > History.
Great Plains
Great Plains.
Grandes Plaines > Conditions environnementales.
Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Great Plains > Environmental conditions.
Great Plains > History.
History.
Nonfiction.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: American Serengeti
  • Empires of the sun : big history and the Great Plains
  • Pronghorns : survivors from a lost world
  • Coyote : the American jackal
  • Bringing home all the pretty horses : the horse trade and the American Great Plains
  • The most dangerous beast : the Grizzly, the Great Plains, the West
  • A dream of bison
  • Wolfsong redux
  • Loving the plains, hating the plains, re-wilding the Plains.

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