Zulu Journal Field Notes Of A Naturalist 1959
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Zulu Journal
Author | : Raymond B. Cowles |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520331346 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.
Zulu Journal
Author | : Raymond Bridgman Cowles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Animal behavior |
ISBN | : |
Secrets of the Snake Charmer
Author | : John C. Murphy |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2010-04-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1450221270 |
Note that there is a companion website for this book and it can be seen at: http://secretsofthesnakecharmer.blogspot.com/ Humans and snakes have an intimate and ancient relationship that often revolves around either love or hate. Snakes can be seen as gods, spiritual messengers, symbols of fertility, and guardians of resources in virtually all cultures. But to those that fear them, snakes are seen as venomous creatures that cannot be trusted. In Secrets of the Snake Charmer, John Murphy, a research associate of the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, provides an in-depth, twenty-first century look at snakes utilizing the published research of other herpetologists as well as his own personal experiences and speculations. Murphy covers a wide range of topics such as the adaptability of snakes, the ways in which evolution has tinkered with snakes during the last 160 million years, and the impact snakes have on the ecological communities they live in. While sharing ideas about the origin of snakes, rattlesnake rattles, and spitting in cobras, Murphy presents an innovative portrayal of snakes that proves they co-evolve with their prey, predators, and parasites in order to fulfill a significant and novel role in the web of life.
Birders of Africa
Author | : Nancy J. Jacobs |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0300220804 |
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, private archives, and interviews, Jacobs asks: How did white ornithologists both depend on and operate distinctively from African birders? What investment did African birders have in collaborating with ornithologists? By distilling the interactions between European science and African vernacular knowledge, this stunningly illustrated work offers a fascinating examination of the colonial and postcolonial politics of expertise about nature.
Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene
Author | : Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1108158315 |
Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one of Africa's oldest protected wildlife areas. The park provides important lessons for conservation management, as it has maintained conservation values rivalling those of much larger parks sometimes through, and sometimes despite, strong management interventions, including the rescue of the white rhino from extinction. In addition, the book highlights the ecological science produced in the park, much of which has become widely influential, including the megaherbivore concept, new functional approaches to understanding biomes, and new understandings about the role of consumers in shaping ecosystems. The volume is ideal for researchers and policymakers interested in the conservation of relatively small, isolated and protected areas.