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Informationen zum Autor Dale F. Lott (1934-2004) was Professor Emeritus of Wildlife! Fish! and Conservation Biology at the University of California! Davis. He is the author of Intraspecific Variation in the Social Systems of Wild Vertebrates (1991). Klappentext "This is the best book I've read about American bison and their habitat. It is vivid! concise! witty! erudite! first-hand! and up-to-date. Most important! it argues convincingly that the only way to assure survival of bison and their habitat in the wild is to establish a Great Plains National Park at least 5!000 square miles in extent."-David Rains Wallace! author of The Bonehunter's Revenge: Dinosaurs! Greed! and the Great Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age "Dr. Lott's scholarship is strong and thorough. American Bison presents an extensive! state-of-the-art review of key points of American bison that are unaddressed or under-addressed by previous books. Moreover! it does it in a popularized! often narrative form that makes the material comprehensible to the educated lay reader as well as to the bison scholar."-James H. Shaw! Department of Zoology! Oklahoma State University Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Part One. Relationships! Relationships 1. Bull to Bull and Cow to Bull 2. Cow to Cow 3. Cow to Calf Part Two. The Machinery of a Bison's Life 4. Bison Athletics 5. Digestion: Grass to Gas and Chips 6. Temperature Control Part Three. Whence They Came Forth! and How Much They Multiplied 7. Ancestors and Relatives 8. How Many? Bison Population in Primitive America Part Four. The Bison's Neighborhood 9. The Central Grassland: Where Buffalo Roam When They're at Home Part Five. The Bison's Neighbors 10. Wolves and Bison: Myths and Realities 11. Buffalo Birds 12. Diseases and Parasites 13. Pronghorn 14. Prairie Dogs 15. Badgers 16. Coyotes 17. Grizzlies 18. Ferrets Part Six. Human and Buffalo 19. Close Encounters of the Buffalo Kind 20. To Kill a Bison 21. Bison Numbers before the Great Slaughter 22. Where Have All the Bison Gone? 23. Attitudes 24. Conservation: Then and Now 25. A Great Plains Park Notes Bibliography Index ...
