Wolves
Behavior, Ecology and Conservation
Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals, capturing the imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable, they hunt and play together in close-knit packs, sometimes roaming over hundreds of square miles in search of food. Once teetering on the brink of extinction across much of the United States and Europe, wolves have made a tremendous comeback in recent years, thanks to legal protection, changing human attitudes, and efforts to reintroduce them to suitable habitats in North America.As wolf populations have rebounded, scientific studies of them have also flourished. But there has…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Boitani, Luigi (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-226-51697-4
- EAN: 9780226516974
- Produktnummer: 2429733
- Verlag: University of Chicago Pr.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 472 S.
- Masse: H27.9 cm x B21.7 cm x D3.7 cm 1'412 g
- Abbildungen: 32 colour plates, 73 tables, 13 halftones, 63 line drawings
- Gewicht: 1412
Über den Autor
L. David Mech is a senior research scientist with the Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey and adjunct professor in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and the Department of Ecology and Behavioral Biology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species, The Way of the Wolf, and The Arctic Wolf, among other books, and is coauthor of The Wolves of Denali. Luigi Boitani is a professor of vertebrate zoology and animal ecology at the University of Rome. He is the author of Dalla parte del lupo, coauthor of Simon and Schuster's Guide to Mammals, and coeditor of Research Techniques in Animal Ecology.
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