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Horn of Darkness
Rhinos on the Edge
von Carol Cunningham & Joel Berger
Gebundene Ausgabe, 256 Seiten, 59 Illustrationen, 1 Karte
Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteOxford University Press (USA), April 1997, ISBN 0-19-511113-3
Verleger: "The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals. Even lions will break off a hunt to detour around one. And yet the black rhino is on the edge of extinction, its numbers dwindling from 100,000 at the turn of the century, to less than 2,500 today. The reason is that in places like Yemen, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, the rhino's horn is more valuable than gold, so valuable that people will risk their lives to harvest it. To deter rhino poachers, African governments have spent millions - on helicopters, paramilitary operations, fences and guard dogs, even relocation to protected areas. Finally, Namibia decided to dehorn its rhino population, in a last ditch effort to stop the slaughter. In 1991, Carol Cunningham and Joel Berger, and their eighteen-month-old daughter Sonja, went to Namibia to weigh the effects of dehorning on rhinos. In Horn of Darkness, they tell the story of three years in the Namib Desert, studying Africa's last sizable population of free-roaming black rhinos. This is the closest most readers will come to experiencing life in the remaining wilds of Africa. Cunningham and Berger, writing alternate chapters, capture what it is like to leave the comforts of civilization, to camp for months at a time in a land filled with deadly predators, to study an animal that is reclusive, unpredictable, and highly dangerous. The authors describe staking out water holes in the dead of the night, creeping to within twenty-seven meters of rhinos to photograph them, all the while keeping a lookout for hyenas, elephants, and lions. They recount many heart-pounding escapes - one rhino forces Carol Cunningham up a tree, an unseen lion in hot pursuit of hyenas races right past a frozen Joel Berger - and capture the adrenaline rush of inching closer to a rhino that might flee - or charge - at any moment. They also give readers a clear sense of the careful, patient work involved in studying animals, the frustration of long days without finding rhinos or seeing other people, coping with heat and thirst (the Namib desert is one of the driest on Earth), with dirt and insects, driving hundreds of kilometers in a Land Rover packed to capacity, slowing amassing records on one hundred individual rhinos over the course of several years. And perhaps most important, the authors reveal that the data they collected suggests that the dehorning project might backfire - that in the four years after dehorning began, calf survival was down (the evidence suggests that hyenas might be preying on calves and the hornless mothers couldn't defend their offspring). They also describe the dark side of scientific work, from the petty jealousy of other scientists - outside researchers were often seen as ecological imperialists - to the controversy that erupted after the authors published their findings, as furious officials of the Namibian conservation program denounced their findings and through delays and other tactics effectively withheld a permit to allow the couple to continue their study. Weaving together the historical accounts of other naturalists, a vividly detailed look at life in the wild, and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of scientific work and the dark side of the conservation movement, Horn of Darkness is destined to be a classic work on the natural world."
Bezugsquellen / Where to buy Kaufen Sie dieses Buch bei Bwana Mitch's Partnern Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAmazon.com (USA), Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAmazon.co.uk (Großbritannien), deutschsprachige Website / German-spoken website Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAmazon.de (Deutschland) oder Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteKalahari.net (Südafrika). Oder erstellen Sie eine Online-Recherche für Bezugsquellen und Preisvergleich bei deutschsprachige Website / German-spoken website Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websitePreisTester (Deutschland), Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteKelkoo UK oder Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAddALL (USA).
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In My Family Tree
A Life With Chimpanzees
von Sheila Siddle & Doug Cress, Vorwort von Jane Goodall
Gebundene Ausgabe, 284 Seiten
Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteGrove Press (USA), Mai 2002, ISBN 0-8021-1713-9
Klappentext: "Sheila Siddle's life changed forever on one fateful day in 1983 when a local game ranger brought a battered, malnourished chimpanzee to the door of her cattle ranch in central Zambia and asked her to do whatever possible to save it. As Sheila and her husband, David, nursed the young chimp they would name Pal back to health, they cared for him as if he were a human infant - feeding him medicine and bottled milk, sharing their bed with him at night, and carrying him on their backs until he regained the strength to survive on his own. From these humble beginnings Sheila and David Siddle would go on to launch the Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteChimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage, a world-renowned animal refuge that has grown to become the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world. Over eighty-five injured and unwanted chimps have found a home there, along with dozens of monkeys, baboons, parrots, tortoises, and antelope - and one disarmingly domesticated hippopotamus named Billy. In My Family Tree is Sheila Siddle's vibrant, vivacious story of how Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteChimfunshi came to be - and the unforgettable chimps who have helped to make it, in the words of Jane Goodall, »the most wonderful place on earth«. As she relates the experiences of the chimpanzees who have survived war, abandonment, and abuse at the hand of humanity before reclaiming their lives as part of the Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteChimfunshi family, Siddle vividly evokes each of their unique personalities. There is Milla, the wise elderly chimp Jane Goodall brings to the Siddles who, after living among humans for decades (and acquiring a taste for cigarettes and beer), must reintegrate into chimp society. There is Sandy, the mischievous troublemaker whose antics distress the sanctuary's humans and primates alike, until a frightening brush with a local predator changes him forever. And there is Rita, the emotionally scarred young chimp who blossoms in maturity to become a devoted mother. Humorous and heartbreaking, full of insight and wonder, In My Family Tree tells the uplifting story of one woman's transformation from a grandmother on the brink of retirement to an internationally acclaimed animal welfare activist devoted to defending the habitat of our closest genetic relatives - and the stories of the chimpanzees she has come to know and love along the way."
Informationen zu Sheila Siddle und ihrem Werk finden Sie beim Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteChimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage (Sambia).
Bezugsquellen / Where to buy Kaufen Sie dieses Buch bei Bwana Mitch's Partnern Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAmazon.com (USA), Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAmazon.co.uk (Großbritannien), deutschsprachige Website / German-spoken website Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAmazon.de (Deutschland) oder Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteKalahari.net (Südafrika). Oder erstellen Sie eine Online-Recherche für Bezugsquellen und Preisvergleich bei deutschsprachige Website / German-spoken website Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websitePreisTester (Deutschland), Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteKelkoo UK oder Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAddALL (USA).
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Kalahari Hyaenas
The Comparative Behavioural Ecology of Two Species
von M.G.L. Mills
Gebundene Ausgabe, 350 Seiten
Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteKluwer Academic Publishers (Niederlande), Januar 1990, ISBN 0-04-445328-0
Synopsis: "Behind this book lie 12 years of research into the comparative behavioural ecology of the brown and spotted hyaenas. Set in the semi-arid region of the Kalahari, the author examines the roles of the two species in this finely balanced ecosystem and highlights the factors and mechanisms responsible for limiting the populations. Feeding ecology and social systems form the core themes of the study and reveal much new data on the links between food distribution, diet and behaviour. The debt of research and extensive range of new material contained in this book will have a direct impact on our present knowledge of hyaenas and our considerations for the conservation management of these animals. The work is aimed at senior graduates, researchers and professionals in zoology."
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Kalahari Hyenas (Reissue)
Comparative Behavioral Ecology of Two Species
von M.G.L. Mills
Paperback, Wiederauflage, 298 Seiten
Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteThe Blackburn Press (USA), November 2003, ISBN 1-930665-83-0
Verleger: "This fascinating book, originally published in 1990 and now available again from The Blackburn Press, focuses on a comparison of the feeding ecology and social systems of the brown and spotted hyenas. Set in the semi-arid region of the Kalahari, the book examines roles and interactions of the two species in this finely balanced ecosystem and highlights the factors and mechanisms responsible for regulating the populations. The hyenas' interactions with other large carnivores are also explored and this too offers novel insights as to their natural behavior. Extracts from the author's field notes form a fascinating feature of the text and convey all the thrill and anticipation of observing these remarkable animals in their own habitat."
Bezugsquellen / Where to buy Kaufen Sie dieses Buch bei Bwana Mitch's Partner Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAmazon.com (USA). Oder erstellen Sie eine Online-Recherche für Bezugsquellen und Preisvergleich bei deutschsprachige Website / German-spoken website Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websitePreisTester (Deutschland), Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteKelkoo UK oder Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAddALL (USA).
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Liontide
von Christopher McBride, Dick Findlay (Illustrationen), Vorwort von Nick Steele
Gebundene Ausgabe, 189 Seiten, 90 Farbfotos, 12 SW-Illustrationen, Tabellen
Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteJonathan Ball Publishers (Südafrika), 1990, ISBN 0-947464-17-4
Klappentext: "In May 1979, Christopher McBride and his family loaded up a Land Rover and leaving Timbavati behind, travelled over 2000 kilometres to the heart of the Kalahari wastes. They set up a base camp in Savuti, Northern Botswana, where the lion is king. A mere 20 metres from the Savuti channel, a stretch of water teeming with crocodiles, catfish and pike, they constructed the grass and reed hut that was to be their home for nearly three years. Rejecting the usual method of observing lions during sample periods, the McBrides chose instead to become nocturnal themselves, and by so-doing to enter fully into the lions' nighttime kingdom, to witness at first-hand their hunting and their play, their feasts and their famines, the whole complex ebb and flow of their lives - the liontide. In this remarkable book Christopher McBride, author of The White Lions of Timbavati, provides a dramatic record of his time with the night hunters of Savuti. This account of the ceaseless struggle between Africa's largest carnivore, the lion, and its prey hurtles the reader into the dust-swirled world of the Savuti lion prides with all its uncertainty and sudden death. Popular theories about lions, their strengths and weaknesses, hunting tactics and prey preferences, are exploded one after the other by a field researcher who spent endless nights watching and recording what happens under the veil of darkness. This exciting narrative leads the reader right into the shadowy realms of the lion and reveals startling new perspectives on Africa and its wildlife."
Informationen zu Chris McBride erhalten Sie bei Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteMcBrides' Camp.
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Return to the Wild
A Story of Two Lions
von Norman Carr, Vorwort vom Earl of Dalhousie
Gebundene Ausgabe, 155 Seiten, 5 Farb- & 31 SW-Fotos auf 28 Tafeln, 1 Karte
Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteWilliam Collins Sons & Co. (UK), April 1962
Klappentext: "It must be said at once, such is the recent vogue for animal stories, that Return to the Wild is serious (but not solemn), exciting and genuinely original. For over thirty years Norman Carr has made a study of lions - their hunting, their mating, the education of their young and the establishment, often violent, of prides and their territories. But in 1957 he became the guardian of two male cubs, Big Boy and Little Boy, and was drawn even deeper into this absorbing world; he fed them and took them wherever he was posted by the Game Department of Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], but otherwise they were under no constraint whatsoever. As a pair they were less inhibited than a single lion might have been, and although many of their escapades were amusing, others were sometimes dangerously exciting. One night two enraged and resident wild lions invaded and occupied the author's camp, determined to drive Big Boy and Little Boy from their domain: the latter made a poor showing. But by the Autumn of 1961 Big Boy and Little Boy were capable not only of killing for themselves, but of defending a territory of their own. The time had come for Norman Carr to return them to the wild. The author has put to remarkable use his opportunities for observing the wild life of Africa, in all its beauty and its ruthlessness: snakes, elephants and crocodiles fascinate him as much as the problems of conservation and the devastating effects of rain and drought. His book is vivid and readable but it is the observations of lions and their habits - with the quite outstanding photographs - which make it memorable."
Informationen zum Autor erhalten Sie bei Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteNorman Carr Safaris.
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Silent Thunder
In the Presence of Elephants
von Katy Payne
Gebundene Ausgabe, 288 Seiten
Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteSimon & Schuster Books (USA), August 1998, ISBN 0-684-80108-6
Verleger: "Scientific discovery is not always the result of a careful accumulation of data or a measured consideration of the facts. Sometimes it takes a leap of imagination. Katy Payne, a naturalist and conservationist, took just such a leap and made an amazing discovery about how elephants communicate. And that was only the beginning of her adventure. In 1984, Katy Payne visited the elephants at Washington Park Zoo in Portland. Oregon. She had been studying whale songs for the last fifteen years, and she was curious about the ways that elephants - the largest living land mammals - communicated with each other. What Payne observed in her first week seemed, at the time, to be little cause for scientific excitement. But on her flight home, she flushed back to a childhood experience of singing in the church choir. Suddenly she realized that she had felt, in the presence of the elephants, a deep throbbing in the air just like the lowest notes of the church organ. Payne and two colleagues were soon able to show that elephants are powerful infrasound - sound pitched too low for the human ear to hear - in communication. This 'silent thunder' allows elephants to intract over long distances. This brilliant, unorthodox, nonlinearless was the basis of her discovery of infrasonic communication among elephant and is typical of Payne's work as a naturalist. It also infuses this deeply felt and observed book with an extraordinary spirit, Payne and her colleagues went on to do important field research on elephant communication in Kenya, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. But in 1991 the peaceful rhythms of their work were violently interrupted by a cull - a planned killing - that destroyed five of the elephant families they were studying. This destruction convinced her that all life is sacred. Payne determined to challenge the philosophies that support culling. Silent Thunder is a natural history rich in ponderings about the animal world and how humans participate in it. It is also a passionate story of Payne's own spiritual quest as she turns an observant eye on her own role in this world and honors the holistic perspective of her indigenous friends, who became her teachers in Zimbabwe, Payne's courage and empathy shine through on every page, giving this unique combination of scientific journal and personal memoir an unforgettable emotional power."
Informationen zur Arbeit von Katy Payne erhalten Sie beim Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteElephant Listening Project (ELP), ein Projekt des Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteBioacoustics Research Program des Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteCornell Lab of Ornithology (USA).
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Silent Thunder (Reprint)
The Hidden Voice of Elephants
von Katy Payne
Paperback, Nachdruck, 320 Seiten
Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websitePhoenix Books (UK), Juli 1999, ISBN 0-7538-0737-8
Bezugsquellen / Where to buy Kaufen Sie dieses Buch bei Bwana Mitch's Partnern Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAmazon.co.uk (Großbritannien) oder Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteKalahari.net (Südafrika). Oder erstellen Sie eine Online-Recherche für Bezugsquellen und Preisvergleich bei deutschsprachige Website / German-spoken website Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websitePreisTester (Deutschland), Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteKelkoo UK oder Neues Fenster öffnen & Seite von anderer Website laden / Open new window & load page from other websiteAddALL (USA).
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