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Black-tailed prairie dog. --- Black-tailed prairie dog --- Grassland ecology --- SCIENCE --- Life Sciences / Ecology --- Grasslands --- Ecology --- Arctomys ludoviciana --- Black-tailed prairie marmot --- Cynomys ludovicianus --- Plains prairie dog --- Prairie dogs --- Conservation.
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American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has studied the buffalo for many years, relates what is known about this iconic animal's life in the wild and its troubled history with humans. Written with unusual grace and verve, American Bison takes us on a journey into the bison's past and shares a compelling vision for its future, offering along the way a valuable introduction to North American prairie ecology. We become Lott's companions in the field as he acquaints us with the social life and physiology of the bison, sharing stories about its impressive physical prowess and fascinating relationships. Describing the entire grassland community in which the bison live, he writes about the wolves, pronghorn, prairie dogs, grizzly bears, and other animals and plants, detailing the interdependent relationships among these inhabitants of a lost landscape. Lott also traces the long and dramatic relationship between the bison and Native Americans, and gives a surprising look at the history of the hide hunts that delivered the coup de grâce to the already dwindling bison population in a few short years. This book gives us a peek at the rich and unique ways of life that evolved in the heart of America. Lott also dismantles many of the myths we have created about these ways of life, and about the bison in particular, to reveal the animal itself: ruminating, reproducing, and rutting in its full glory. His portrait of the bison ultimately becomes a plea to conserve its wildness and an eloquent meditation on the importance of the wild in our lives.
American bison. --- Bison --- Bisons --- Bovidae --- American buffalo --- Bison, American --- Bison americanus --- Bison bison --- Bison occidentalis --- Bison sylvestris --- Bos bison --- Buffalo, American --- american animals. --- animal life. --- animal relationships. --- bison population. --- bison range. --- bison. --- buffalo. --- ecologist. --- ecology. --- endangered species. --- fauna. --- grasslands. --- grizzly bears. --- iconic. --- interspecies. --- myths. --- native animals. --- natural world. --- nature. --- nonhuman animals. --- north america. --- prairie dogs. --- prairie ecology. --- prairie. --- relationships. --- scientific. --- social life. --- wilderness.
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Rodent Societies synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents, providing a historical basis for comparative analyses. Subsequent sections focus on group-living rodents and characterize their reproductive behaviors, life histories and population ecology, genetics, neuroendocrine mechanisms, behavioral development, cognitive processes, communication mechanisms, cooperative and uncooperative behaviors, antipredator strategies, comparative socioecology, diseases, and conservation. Using the highly diverse and well-studied Rodentia as model systems to integrate a variety of research approaches and evolutionary theory into a unifying framework, Rodent Societies will appeal to a wide range of disciplines, both as a compendium of current research and as a stimulus for future collaborative and interdisciplinary investigations.
Rodents --- Social behavior in animals. --- Animal societies. --- Social behavior in animals --- Animal behavior --- Animal societies --- Rodentia --- Mammals --- Ecology. --- Evolution. --- social behaviour --- rodents, social behavior, ecology, conservation, population management, environment, nonfiction, science, nature, biogeography, reproduction, diseases, socioecology, antipredator strategies, predation, cooperation, communication, cognition, behavioral development, neuroendocrine mechanisms, genetics, biology, evolution, mating, sexual selection, breeding, tree squirrels, stress, dimorphism, sex ratio, kin recognition, adaptation, foraging, blind mole rats, beaver, prairie dogs, infanticide, capybaras.
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