Coyote at the kitchen door : living with wildlife in suburbia /

"A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such stories, which regularly make headline news, highlight the blurred divide that now exists between civilization and wilder...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeStefano, Stephen, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Urban animals.
Coyote.
Urbanization > Environmental aspects.
Coyotes
Faune urbaine.
Urbanisation > Aspect de l'environnement.
NATURE / Animals / Wildlife
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Suburban beginnings
  • The world's neighborhoods
  • The form setter
  • Gradient in time : a brief history of wildlife in America
  • Suburban wildlife encounters
  • Mixed messages
  • The suburban jungle
  • A trilogy of tolerable nuisances, part 1 : traffic
  • A trilogy of tolerable nuisances, parts 2 and 3 : light and noise
  • Home ownership and other near-death experiences
  • A short story about a small moose
  • Coyote spirits
  • A suburban land ethic.

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