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Seawater aquariums : the captive environment
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ISBN: 0471056650 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Wiley

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Societies of wolves and free-ranging dogs
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ISBN: 1139334352 1107230144 1280394102 9786613572028 1139337785 1139057766 1139340239 1139341812 1139336916 113933865X 9781139336918 9781139057769 9781139340236 9781107015197 1107015197 9781107656086 1107656087 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Wolves are charismatic emblems of wilderness. Dogs, which descended from wolves, are models of urbanity. Do free-ranging dogs revert to pack living or are their societies only reminiscent of a wolfish heritage? Focusing on behavioral ecology, this is the first book to assess societies of both gray wolves and domestic dogs living as urban strays and in the feral state. It provides a comprehensive review of wolf genetics, particularly of New World wolves and their mixture of wolf, coyote and dog genomes. Spotte draws on the latest scientific findings across the specialized fields of genetics, sensory biology, reproductive physiology, space use, foraging ecology and socialization. This interdisciplinary approach provides a solid foundation for a startling and original comparison of the social lives of wolves and free-ranging dogs. Supplementary material, including a full glossary of terms, is available online at www.cambridge.org/9781107015197.

Marine aquarium keeping
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ISBN: 047159489X Year: 1993 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Wiley,

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Societies of wolves and free-ranging dogs
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ISBN: 9781107656086 9781107015197 1107656087 1107015197 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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"Wolves are charismatic emblems of wilderness. Dogs, which descended from wolves, are models of urbanity. Do free-ranging dogs revert to pack living or are their societies only reminiscent of a wolfish heritage? Focusing on behavioral ecology, this is the first book to assess societies of both gray wolves and domestic dogs living as urban strays and in the feral state. It provides a comprehensive review of wolf genetics, particularly of New World wolves and their mixture of wolf, coyote and dog genomes. Spotte draws on the latest scientific findings across the specialized fields of genetics, sensory biology, reproductive physiology, space use, foraging ecology and socialization. This interdisciplinary approach provides a solid foundation for a startling and original comparison of the social lives of wolves and free-ranging dogs. Supplementary material, including a full glossary of terms, is available online at www.cambridge.org/9781107015197"--


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The smoking horse : a memoir in pieces
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ISBN: 1438431406 1441648763 9781441648761 9781438431406 1438431392 9781438431390 Year: 2010 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press,

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In The Smoking Horse, marine biologist Stephen Spotte recounts his youth from the mid-1950s through the turbulent 1960s. After growing up in a coal camp in southern West Virginia, he was expelled from a Maryland boarding school and over four summers lived a bohemian life in Beach Haven, New Jersey, working variously as a lifeguard, clamdigger, dishwasher, laborer, and milkman. Beach Haven in the early sixties was a riotous community of artists, musicians, drunks, junkies, and those who had simply fallen through life's cracks. It was, someone said, a seaside Greenwich Village, and in fact it became a weekend destination of New York City bohemians abandoning the hot summer sidewalks to mill with itinerant beach bums, boat jockeys, New Jersey pineys, and Philadelphia hipsters. It was here that Spotte began a lifelong study of literature and the sea, always with an ear to life's fractured melodies. Torn between art and empiricism, he moved to New York, haunting Village coffee shops, listening to beat poets, and following New York's jazz scene, where ragged sages claimed enlightenment in Coltrane's sax. Following stints as a deckhand in the West Indies he returned to college and trained to become a marine biologist. His professional life began in Niagara Falls, New York, where the Great Lakes were dying after years of pollution, the citizens struggling to breathe air reminiscent of the coal camps. The end of the memoir finds him separated from his wife and wandering alone in the Mexican desert astride a skeletal, marijuana-dependent horse and trailed by a stray dog, still seeking the mythical place where reason and revelation intersect.


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Fish and invertebrate culture : water management in closed systems
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Year: 1979 Publisher: New York-Chichester-Toronto Wiley-Interscience

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Captive seawater fishes : science and technology
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ISBN: 0471545546 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York Chichester Singapore John Wiley & Sons

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Fish and invertebrate culture : water management in closed systems
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ISBN: 047102306X 9780471023067 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York: Wiley,

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Candiru : life and legend of the bloodsucking catfishes
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ISBN: 0887394698 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : Creative arts book company,

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Artificial seawaters : formulas and methods
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ISBN: 086720057X Year: 1985 Publisher: Boston : Jones and Bartlett,

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