Exmoor Ponies Survival of the Fittest
Author | : Sue Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-09-01 |
Genre | : Exmoor pony |
ISBN | : 9780861834433 |
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Author | : Sue Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-09-01 |
Genre | : Exmoor pony |
ISBN | : 9780861834433 |
Author | : Sue Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Exmoor pony |
ISBN | : 9780861832200 |
Author | : Sue Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780857043153 |
`Finding out about Exmoor ponies and the people involved in their world at various times inthe past has been like panning for gold ¿ I¿ve had to examine a lot of material, sometimeswithout result, but when a small nugget of the ponies¿ story first sparkles, that is so exciting.¿Sue Baker has spent many years searching through long-forgotten documents andphotographs and listening to the stories passed down through Exmoor families. Her`prospecting¿ has resulted in this intimate portrayal of the ponies and the community ofpeople who over the years have ensured their well-being.This book is a miscellany of all things Exmoor pony: turning its pages may bring thereader to ponies harnessed for warfare; to meetings with a literary legend and a famouscowboy; to paintings by Britain¿s greatest equestrian artists; to stories of Exmoors travellingto the Antipodes; to pony sales from central London to deepest Exmoor; to the Exmoor PonySociety secretary who became a horse trainer for Her Majesty the Queen; to lyrical poems;to how one Exmoor pony lived with bison; to threats from pony-rustling; to pony sculpting;to tales of ponies being a shepherd¿s pillow or transport for the rabbit-catcher.Within The Exmoor Pony Chronicles are answers to questions such as: Did the Aclandstruly conserve Exmoor¿s indigenous pony? Where were Exmoor foals hidden upstairs in apub? Who crossed an Exmoor pony with a wild ass? Can Exmoor ponies see pixies? And,once and for all, did soldiers really use Exmoor¿s ponies for target practice in WWII?All this and more can be found in this fascinating and generously illustrated compendium.
Author | : Dawn Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780857042767 |
This is the real-life story of Monsieur Chapeau, a wild, orphaned Exmoor pony foal found severely malnourished with pneumonia on the moors of Exmoor and how he survived and thrived beyond all expectations - bringing with him the secrets of how to create a bond of trust and friendship with the wild Exmoor ponies.
Author | : Janet Vorwald Dohner |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 030013813X |
"The need to preserve farm animal diversity is increasingly urgent, says the author of this definitive book on endangered breeds of livestock and poultry. Farmyard animals may hold critical keys for our survival, Jan Dohner warns, and with each extinction, genetic traits of potentially vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress are forever lost."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Carolyn Willekes |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2016-07-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786720094 |
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of equine iconography, literary representations, fieldwork and archaeological theory. She explores the ways in which horses were used in the ancient world, whether in regular cavalry formations, harnessed to chariots, as a means of reconnaissance, in swift and deadly skirmishing (such as by Scythian archers) or as the key mode of mobility. Establishing a regional typology of ancient horses - Mediterranean, Central Asian and Near Eastern - the author discerns within these categories several distinct sub-types. Explaining how the physical characteristics of each type influenced its use on the battlefield - through grand strategy, singular tactics and general deployment - she focuses on Egypt, Persia and the Hittites, as well as Greece and Rome. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet written of the horse in antiquity.
Author | : Exmoor Pony Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Exmoor ponies |
ISBN | : 9780950023007 |
Author | : Bernd Redecker |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642559530 |
One of the main problems and aims of nature conservation in Europe is to protect semi-open landscapes. The development during the past decades is characterized by an ongoing intensivation of land use on the one hand, and an increasing number of former meadows and pastures lying fallow caused by changing economic conditions on the other hand. In several countries the estabishment of larger "pasture landscapes" with a mixed character of open grassland combined with shrubs and forests has been recognized as one solution to this problem. The book gives an overview of the European projects concerning to this topic - nature conservation policy and strategies, scientific results and practical experiences creating large scale grazing systems.
Author | : Dawn Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780857043184 |
Wild Herd Whispering is about the incredible Exmoor ponies as they reveal their truenatures through the world of herd energy and dynamics.Starting with the dramatic winter arrival from the moor of a tiny five week oldwild-born foal who faces the bleakest future, it is the big herd at Holt Ball Farm thatdecides how she will survive and thrive. The book follows the adventures of the ponies,revealing characters and behaviours that take you on a heart-rending, thoughtprovokingand enriching journey of equine enlightenment. This is an opportunity to catchup with adorable orphan Monsieur Chapeau and his friends and majestic stallion Bear,as their lives evolve and entwine with the wild herds of Exmoor. It follows the endearing,exciting and at times perilous experiences of the ponies ¿ including unwelcome nighttime adventures, the quest to find foals lost in the wilderness and an entire moorlandherd in jeopardy. With an expanding herd and challenges to face, author Dawn Westcottlooks to the ponies themselves for help and inspiration: they in turn respond in a way thatoffers magical insights into what is going on in their hearts and minds.This book is an invaluable reference for people interested in better understandingand winning the trust and friendship of ponies. It also highlights the challenges ofsafeguarding the endangered Exmoor ponies of Exmoor National Park.
Author | : Jason I. Ransom |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2016-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1421419092 |
Readers will find new insight into the lives of the world's horses, zebras, and asses, understand the basis of our relationships with these animals, and develop a greater understanding of where equids come from and why they are worth conserving.Included in this book are detailed, state-of-the-science syntheses on Social structure, behavior, and cognition Habitat and diet Ecological niches Population dynamics Roles of humans in horse distribution through time Human dimensions and the meaning of wild Management of free-roaming horses Captive breeding of wild equids Conservation of wild equids Conservation of migrations Reintroductions Genetics and paleogenetics