What Walks This Way - Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.

List of contents

1. Ribbon of Life
2. Turn Your Dog's Paw Upside Down
3. Coyotes Are the Original Aikido
4. Let's Just Enjoy Foxes
5. It Almost Seems Wolves Should Be Allowed to Vote
6. We'll Lift That Lion Right Off That Limb
7. Bobcat and Lynx
8. A Black-and-White Aesthetic
9. The Entangled World of Humans and Raccoons
10. Three Bears
11. The Sudden Beating of Brains
12. You Think You Know What the IUCN Is Going to Say
13. The Little Guys
14. Hooves
15. Skulls and Bones
16. A New Vision of Wildlife Management
17. The Evaluation
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sharman Apt Russell. Illustrations and photos by Kim A. Cabrera

Summary

Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.

Product details

• Authors: Sharman Apt Russell, Russell Sharman Apt
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.08.2024
• EAN: 9780231215992
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21599-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, Zoology & animal sciences, Wildlife: general interest, Conservation of the environment, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Zoology and animal sciences, Science; nature