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Animal Info offers information on the biology and ecology of various species as well as current status of rare and endangered mammals. Also provides links to animal interest organizations and publications. Users can search an individual species index by common and scientific name, a species group index and a country index.
Information on rare, threatened, and endangered mammals. Includes a profile of each mammal, status and trends (including countries where currently found, population estimates, history of distribution, and threats/reasons for decline), data on biology and ecology, and references. Also provides links to animal interest organizations and publications. Users can search an individual species index by common and scientific name, a species group index and a country index. Also includes an index lists the names of individual species in Chinese characters.
This comprehensive, easy to use guide covers topics including the history and origin of the domestic dog, popular breeds, locating and choosing a healthy dog or puppy, the first days at home, diet, basic training and an extensive section on maintaining the health and wellbeing of your canine companion.
This comprehensive, easy to use guide covers topics including the history and origin of the domestic dog, popular breeds, locating and choosing a healthy dog or puppy, the first days at home, diet, basic training and an extensive section on maintaining the health and wellbeing of your canine companion.--Publisher website.
This collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple mediations of the imagination. Some essays are based on community-based fieldwork, while all encompass an affective immersion in the places we inhabit, and the claims these make on the body’s intelligibility. The authors consider the role of artists, writers, and literary scholars as cultural actors in a variety of settings, grassroots, regional, trans-regional, and global. Topics include: the role of ...
Animal Info, based in Severna Park, Maryland, highlights rare, threatened, and endangered mammals in the United Kingdom. Information about the biodiversity, ecosystems, land use, population, protected lands, education, and economy of the United Kingdom is available, as well as a listing of references used.
Viewing wildlife in action is always a pleasure–capturing that action with your camera is one of the most rewarding and challenging ways to become even closer to Nature. Birders, hikers, national-park visitors, and international travelers are all discovering the joys of wildlife photography. Recent advances in camera technology have made wildlife photography so reasonable anyone can get hooked. But good gear doesn’t guarantee good results, and that’s where Wildlife Photography can help you succeed. In this handy reference you will find information on camera equipment, proper photography technique, how to frame shots and make split-second decisions, and how to gain and apply specific knowledge about the animals you are hoping to photograph. Also included is an introduction to post-production computer skills that can really bring your photos to life.
'Animal Magic' features poems and artwork, both playful and serious, on the animal kingdom and the threats posed to it by mankind. There are poems on more than 40 animals, birds and insects: from the well-known and the little-known to the exotic.
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