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Author | : Helen Humphreys |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2006-06-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393345319 |
“A perspective on love and loss [that] will haunt you for days.”—Entertainment Weekly Alice's boyfriend abandons her dog, which joins a feral pack. Every evening, Alice and five others gather at the forest's edge, trying to call their dogs back. Most have similar tales of jealousy or vengeance enacted upon them through their dogs: Jamie is rebelling against his stepfather; Lily, who has suffered brain damage, is considered irresponsible. Becoming more deeply involved, Alice moves out to a cabin on land owned by Malcolm, one of the group, whose motives in having her there are suspicious. As she falls in love with the wildlife biologist whose wolf has gained lead of the pack, she feels the tug between love's wild power and her desire to domesticate it. After a tragic accident, all members of the group must rethink their lives and find their places in an untamed world. Wild Dogs strips away the conventions of love and passion to reveal deeper, richer truths.
Author | : Jocelin Kagan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781913159191 |
There are roughly 6,600 wild dogs left in Africa yet they have cast such a spell on top wildlife photographer and naturalist Jocelin Kagan that she is determined to help save them. If left to their own devices, they are more than capable of thriving, as this sumptuous photographic natural history shows. Jocelin has called in world experts to add their latest findings about these resourceful, graceful and highly skilled family groups. Nomadic predators whose territories range thousands of kilometres, they hunt co-operatively, preying on small herbivores. Non-confrontational, they form complex bonds as this book reveals. Now restricted to small populations and threatened by some shoot-to-kill policies, habitat fragmentation, diseases from domestic dogs, climate change and snares, as well as natural predation from hyenas and lions, Africa's wild dogs will be supported by all the royalties from this book.
Author | : Mary Hoffman |
Publisher | : Steck-Vaughn |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780817227043 |
Text and photographs describe the behavior and habitats of wild dogs.
Author | : ouping guo |
Publisher | : ouping guo |
Total Pages | : 376 |
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Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Charles Basel |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2011-06-29 |
Genre | : Pets |
ISBN | : 1462893295 |
This story is about our dog named Junior. We lived on a mountaintop rain forest in Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. He was born to a pack of indigenous wild dogs that we had adopted. He was the runt of the litter. We didnt expect him to live because he was so frail. We nursed him separately. He grew to be the largest of the dogs in the pack. He continued to live with the dog pack in the rain forest. His was strong, with a very sensitive, gentle nature. When he was about five years old, we left Puerto Rico to return to the United States. We decided to take him and another dog, not from the pack, with us. Junior never had a collar on him. He had never been in a car or a house. This is the same dog that has left Puerto Rico on an airplane and is traveling around the United States. This is his story. He came from the rain forest of the Caribbean to the highways of the United States.
Author | : Jennifer W. Sheldon |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 148326369X |
Wild Dogs: The Natural History of the Nondomestic Canidae presents a comprehensive, current natural history of the nondomestic dog species. In this book, a prodigious amount of previously uncollected information is presented in a straightforward form. The organization of the book is alphabetical by genus, and, within each genus, alphabetically by Linnean species name. In some cases, very little is known about a species. In other cases, the amount of available information is enormous, and has been distilled to summary form. The volume is intended as a straightforward assemblage of material. It points the way toward, but is not intended to provide, a synthetic or theoretical big picture. The book is intended as a general reference work. Biologists, wildlife managers, mammalogists, conservationists, students, and carnivore specialists will find here information assembled nowhere else. Over 600 sources are included in the bibliography, so the book also serves as an entry to the literature for those seeking more technical or specialized knowledge. Naturalists and outdoorsmen will also enjoy discovering the particulars of familiar and unfamiliar canid species.
Author | : Scott Creel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-12-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691207003 |
With only 5,000 surviving, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's most endangered large carnivores--and one of the most remarkable. This comprehensive portrait of wild dogs incorporates previously scattered information with important new findings from a six-year study in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, Africa's largest protected area. The book emphasizes ecology, concentrating on why wild dogs fare poorly in protected areas that maintain healthy populations of lions, hyenas, or other top carnivores. In addition to conservation issues, it covers fascinating aspects of wild dog behavior and social evolution. The Creels use demographic, behavioral, endocrine, and genetic approaches to examine how and why nonbreeding pack mates help breeding pairs raise their litters. They also present the largest data set ever collected on mammalian predator-prey interactions and the evolution of cooperative hunting, allowing them to account for wild dogs' prowess as hunters. By using a large sample size and sophisticated analytical tools, the authors step well beyond previous research. Their results include some surprises that will cause even specialists to rethink certain propositions, such as the idea that wild dogs are unusually vulnerable to infectious disease. Several findings apply broadly to the management of other protected areas. Of clear appeal to ecologists studying predation and cooperation in any population, this book collects and expands a cache of information useful to anyone studying conservation as well as to amateurs intrigued by the once-maligned but extraordinary wild dog.
Author | : Christiane Gunzi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Wild dogs |
ISBN | : 9780753408209 |
This introduction to wolves and wild dogs offers young readers an insight into the stealthy world of these highly intelligent hunters. The text and illustrations show wolves and wild dogs hunting in North America, golden jackals scavenging on rubbish in southern Europe, dingos roaming the Australian outback and African wild dogs tirelessly tracking their pray across the Savanna.
Author | : Jean Mills |
Publisher | : Scarborough, Ontario : Nelson Canada, c1990 [i.e. 1989] |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Children's stories, Canadian |
ISBN | : 9780176030520 |
Grade level: 6, 7, 8, e, i, s.
Author | : Dori Marx |
Publisher | : Wonder World Kids |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2019-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781732342422 |
New York City is in trouble! Something strange is happening in Central Park, the green sanctuary in the heart of Manhattan. Dogs splash in fountains, ride skateboards, and act naughty all throughout the park. Their owners, their dog walkers, and even the park patrol can't stop the wild behavior. Is something in the park making the pups crazy? Ten-year-old Lilly Cook and her twin siblings, Fynn and Celia, remember the case that turned their parents into world famous veterinarians-with a little help from their kids, of course! Discover how the Cook kids learn to think like animals and work with new friends to protect our environment, one destination at a time. Will they find the solution before all dogs are banned from Central Park forever?