The predator paradox : ending the war with wolves, bears, cougars, and coyotes / John A. Shivik.
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]Description: 196 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780807084960
- 591.5/3 23
- QL758 .S54 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.
Part I.The war -- The battlefield -- Predators, people, and prey : impacts and interactions -- Food : an inseparable connection -- Perceptions that fuel the paradox -- Part II. Detente. The phenomenon of fright : disruptive stimuli -- Personality and peer pressure -- Of spiked donuts and turbo-charged flagging : testing aversive stimuli -- Close, but not too close : altering territories -- Animal husbandry : sometimes it's about money, sometimes it's not -- The power of emotion and the need for knowledge.