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Croc and Gator Attacks
For use in schools and libraries only. Discusses reasons why crocodiles and alligators attack, gives tips on how to avoid attacks, and relates stories about such attacks.
Alligators
Vliet introduces readers to the biology, ecology, and natural history of the American alligator. Sharing nuanced depictions of their hidden lives that will forever change the way you think of these giant reptiles, the book; combines captivating storytelling with the most current scientific facts; chronicles the life cycle of the alligator; explains why the alligator's precise anatomy and physiology make it so successful; covers a wide range of topics, from courtship and reproduction to communication, basking, nest-building, and hunting; reveals the alligator's sophisticated social life in detail; evaluates the alligator's environmental role as a keystone species; examines the complicated relationship between alligators and people
American Alligator
Having survived since the Mesozoic era, alligators teetered on the brink of extinction in the 1960s. Their recovery in the 1970s was largely due to legislative intervention, and today populations are closely monitored throughout their range. American Alligator is the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of this resilient relic, a creature with a brain weighing less than half an ounce that has successfully adapted to a changing Earth for more than 200 million years. Kelby Ouchley chronicles the evolution of A. mississippiensis from "shieldcroc"--the last common ancestor of modern-day alligators, crocodiles, caimans, and gavials--to its current role as keystone of the ecological health ...
Dark Florida
Author Alan Brown leads readers on a stomach-churning turn through Florida's dark side . Florida sunshine beckons, but in can be unrelenting, too. And in the shadows, tragedy strikes. Ted Bundy leads a cast of serial killers who wrought havoc on the state. Storms spin onto its shores with landscape altering fury. Sharks lurk in the sea, and snakes and alligators lie wait in the swamps. Gangsters like Al Capone hit Miami Beach for a respite, but gangsters like Al Capone take no breaks from their trade. A woman spontaneously bursts into flames in St. Petersburg. Anthrax claims a life in Palm Beach. The Bermuda Triangle disappears vessels off the coast. Indeed, Florida knows boundless leisure, but it's just as familiar with catastrophe .
Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts
As more and more people crowd onto less and less land, incidences of human-wildlife conflicts will only increase. A comprehensive overview of this emerging field, Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts: The Science of Wildlife Damage Management discusses the issues facing wildlife managers and anyone else dealing with interactions between wildlife and
Watch Out for Alligators!
Readers will love this book about the great backyard beast of the American Southeast—the American alligator. This volume introduces readers to the alligators’ habitat, behavior, and anatomy. Readers will also learn about the threat alligators pose to people, and how people are a threat to alligators through habitat destruction and hunting. Exciting text is paired with amazing color photographs that bring readers face-to-face with this armored animal. Text is supplemented by fun fact boxes, which are sure to spark readers’ interest as they explore this engaging topic. This book supports life science curricula, and it promises to be both an informative and exciting read.
American Alligators and Crocodiles
Alligators and crocodiles, the dinosaur monsters of our era, are fascinating to watch and an adrenaline rush! This book attempts to give you wonderful views of these creatures with nearly all the information you would need to understand them, their environment, and how they contribute to the health and vitality of the ecosystem in which they live.
Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting
Why the Left's anti-hunting propaganda is dead wrong! Nothing is more hated--and more misunderstood--by the trendy Left than hunting. But now intrepid hunter and pro-hunting activist Frank Miniter sets the record straight. In The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Hunting, he details the concrete benefits that hunting provides to all of us--even how it helps the environment. Speaking with wildlife biologists, hunters, farmers, anti-hunters, and victims of animal attacks, Miniter explains how banning hunting negatively affects wildlife populations and conservation. Miniter's fearless, politically incorrect take on hunting lays out the facts that liberal enviro-nuts don't want you to know.
Alligators Are Not Pets!
Alligators are reptiles with one thing on their minds: meat. These cold-blooded animals make horrible pets. That doesn't stop some people from trying to make them pets though. Often the alligators get too big to care for and their owners release them into the wild. Readers will find out why some states don't even allow people to feed alligators and what is being done to control the alligator population.
