People and Predators

People and Predators
Author: Defenders of Wildlife
Publsiher: Island Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-06-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781597269100

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Carnivores provide innumerable ecological benefits and play a unique role in preserving and maintaining ecosystem services and function, but at the same time they can create serious problems for human populations. A key question for conservation biologists and wildlife managers is how to manage the world's carnivore populations to conserve this important natural resource while mitigating harmful impacts on humans. In People and Predators, leading scientists and researchers offer case studies of human-carnivore conflicts in a variety of landscapes, including rural, urban, and political. The book covers a diverse range of taxa, geographic regions, and conflict scenarios, with each chapter dealing with a specific facet of human-carnivore interactions and offering practical, concrete approaches to resolving the conflict under consideration. Chapters provide background on particular problems and describe how challenges have been met or what research or tools are still needed to resolve the conflicts. People and Predators will helps readers to better understand issues of carnivore conservation in the 21st century, and provides practical tools for resolving many of the problems that stand between us and a future in which carnivores fulfill their historic ecological roles.

People and Predators

People and Predators
Author: Nina Fascione,Aimee Delach,Martin Edgar Smith
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Carnivora
ISBN: 1107146593

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Human populations & carnivores generally have a strained relationship, which presents problems for conservationists. This book looks at aspects of human-carnivore interaction across a range of landscapes & environments.

Hunters Predators and Prey

Hunters  Predators and Prey
Author: Frédéric Laugrand,Jarich Oosten†
Publsiher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781782384069

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Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the chapters about animals considered ‘prey par excellence’: the caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By giving precedence to Inuit categories such as ‘inua’ (owner) and ‘tarniq’ (shade) over European concepts such as ‘spirit ‘and ‘soul’, the book compares and contrasts human beings and animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal relationships in a hunting society.

Tempests Poxes Predators and People

Tempests  Poxes  Predators  and People
Author: L. Michael Romero,John C. Wingfield
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2016
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780195366693

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Most physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response come from laboratory experiments using domesticated animals. This book summarizes work to understand stress in natural contexts.

Rich People Things

Rich People Things
Author: Chris Lehmann
Publsiher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781608461523

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Keeping up with the American elite can be tiring. This is the layman's guide to how the wealthy maintain control.

Producing Predators

Producing Predators
Author: Michael D. Wise
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803249813

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Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects, but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies.

Down from the Mountain

Down from the Mountain
Author: Bryce Andrews
Publsiher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781328972477

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The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as the climate warmed and people crowded the valleys. There were obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones, like the corn field that drew her into sure trouble. That trouble is where award-winning writer, farmer, and conservationist Bryce Andrews's story intersects with Millie’s. In this "welcome and impressive work" he shows how this drama is "the core of a major problem in the rural American West—the disagreement between large predatory animals and invasive modern settlers”—an entangled collision where the shrinking wilds force human and bear into ever closer proximity (Barry Lopez). “Andrews’s wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts . . . Welcome and impressive work.”—Barry Lopez

Predators

Predators
Author: Gregory M. Cooper,Michael R. King
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781633888029

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Most of us only half-listen to the public service announcements about safety in the home. We lock our doors at night, but do little else to change habits that may make us the next victims of the dangerous individuals who are always on the watch for their next opportunity. This updated paperback edition takes readers through the mindset of predatory criminals - their motives, various plans of attack, and way of thinking - and then teaches simple lifestyle techniques that will help reduce the risk of becoming victimized. Featuring a new chapter on how the Internet and social media has radically changed how some predators operate, criminal behavior specialists Greg Cooper and Mike King provide expert analysis based on real-life cases, in addition to moving insights from victims and criminals themselves. The authors make the point that the people who commit these crimes aren't much different from the predators of the wild, preying on the weak and unsuspecting. What makes these individuals more dangerous than their instinctive wildlife counterparts, however, is that they consciously choose to inflict their will on the more vulnerable members of their own species. To protect our loved ones and ourselves requires that we truly educate ourselves about the predators who live in our society and then take appropriate action. This excellent, in-depth study will help readers lead safer lives.