Yellowstone wolves : science and discovery in the world's first national park / edited by Douglas W....
Yellowstone wolves : science and discovery in the world's first national park / edited by Douglas W....
Yellowstone wolves : science and discovery in the world's first national park / edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty ; with a foreword by Jane Goodall.
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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GQ 2021/0048
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English
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xvii, 339 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, color maps ; 29 cm
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still image
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I. History and reintroduction. Historical and ecological context for wolf recovery / Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, Daniel R. MacNulty, and Lee H. Whittlesey -- How wolves returned to Yellowstone / Steven H. Fritts, Rebecca J. Watters, Edward E. Bangs, Douglas W. Smith and Michael K. Phil...
Part 4. Wolf-prey relationships. How we study wolf-prey relationships / Douglas W. Smith, Matthew C. Metz, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty -- Limits to wolf predatory performance / Daniel R. MacNulty, Daniel R. Stahler, and Douglas W. Smith -- What wolves eat and why / Matthew C. Metz, Mar...
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2020.
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"There is perhaps no population of U.S. carnivores better studied than the wolves of Yellowstone. These iconic predators were reintroduced to the park in 1995, having been hunted nearly to the brink of extinction. From 1995 to 1997, 41 wild wolves from Canada and northwest Montana were released in to the park, and in the intervening decades scienti...
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Yellowstone wolves : science and discovery in the world's first national park / edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty ; with a foreword by Jane Goodall.
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Accompanied by online video produced by Robert K. Landis.
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ebook version : 9780226728483
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GQ 2021/0048
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74VKaJJzwxK3
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022672834X
9780226728346
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599.773
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991024369513302626
