Call of Carnivores (eBook)

Travels of a Field Biologist

Prof. Hans Kruuk (Autor)

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2019
200 Seiten
Pelagic Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78427-182-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Hans Kruuk is a leading authority on animal behaviour and the author of classic studies of hyaenas, otters and badgers. In this book he describes his lifelong fascination with natural history, the many species he has studied and the wild settings across the world that formed the background to his research.

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Carnivores include some of the most impressive, dangerous and mysterious animals in the world. Hans Kruuk has spent his life studying them against magnificent backdrops, from the Serengeti savannahs and Kalahari deserts to the Scottish Highlands, from the Galapagos Islands to the Far East. In each location he has used meticulous observation of animal behaviour to understand the ecology and natural history of wild carnivore populations, and ultimately to promote their conservation.This book describes the methods, challenges and rewards of the science of behavioural ecology. However, it essentially concerns the personal, rather than the scientific, side of that work, and above all the field experiences involved. With photographs and line drawings, it brings to life African safaris, the hyena in his bath, flights with vultures, dives with otters, attacks by a badger in Scotland and by feral dogs in Galapagos, gull-eating hedgehogs in Britain and the role of animals in African witchcraft. The author communicates his lifelong fascination with wildlife through these unique experiences and the insights they afforded him.Professor Kruuk is a leading authority on animal behaviour and the author of classic studies of hyaenas, otters and badgers, as well as a biography of his Oxford mentor Niko Tinbergen.

Autor

lt;p>Hans Kruuk is a behavioural ecologist with a particular interest in carnivore behaviour, life history and conservation. He did his PhD under Niko Tinbergen at the University of Oxford in 1964, on behaviour of gulls and their predators. He then became Deputy Director of the Serengeti Research Institute in Tanzania, before moving back to the University of Oxford in 1971 as Research Fellow, then to the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council, at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Scotland as a Senior Principal Research Officer. He has authored over 120 scientific publications and seven books, including The spotted hyena, predation and social behavior (1972), The social badger (1989), Wild otters (1995), Otters, ecology, behaviour and conservation (2006), Hunter and hunted (2002) and a biography of Niko Tinbergen (Niko’s Nature, 2003). He has received scientific medals from the Zoological Society of London and the British Mammal Society, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen.

Inhalt

1. In the field

2. Camouflage in an aquarium

3. Gulls and their enemies: foxes and hedgehogs

4. Serengeti: hyenas, lions and the dusty track to Seronera

5. Solomon, the hyena in my bath

6. Clans of the savannah

7. Hyenas hunt

8. Witches, and death in the dark

9. Masai, people and art on the Serengeti plains

10. Striped without a clan

11. Kalahari desert: a story of sand dunes, people, hyenas and badgers

12. Nomads of northern Kenya

13. Harar, town of the people’s hyena

14. Vultures gathering

15. Flying next to vultures

16. Chasing dogs on Darwin’s islands

17. Badgering in Britain

18. Olfactory delights and olives

19. Shetland otters

20. Otters in and around the garden

21. Otters, crocodiles and orcas

22. Three monks, calls of gibbons, and otters in Thailand

23. Down under: Platypus, Quolls and leeches

24. Just one last project

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.3.2019
• Verlagsort: Exeter
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: African wildlife • animal behaviour • Badger • behavioural ecology • carnivore behaviour • carnivore conservation • carnivore ecology • carnivores • Ethology • Galapagos • hyaena • Kalahari • Otter • Serengeti • wild carnivores
• ISBN-10: 1-78427-182-9 / 1784271829
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78427-182-4 / 9781784271824