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Vulture
Simply because they are large scavenging birds, vultures are often viewed as harbingers of death. But, as Thom van Dooren shows in this cultural and natural history, that dominant association leaves us with a very one-dimensional understanding of a group of actually rather fascinating and diverse creatures. Vulture offers an enlightening new history of this much-misunderstood bird. Vultures vary in type and size, and while some have a diet mainly of bone, others are actually almost completely vegetarian. Most interesting, despite its notorious association with death, the vulture very rarely, if ever, kills for itself. In different cultural mythologies, vultures play a role in disposing of th...
Carrion Ecology and Management
Carrion, or dead animal matter, is an inherent component of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, and is exploited by a wide diversity of organisms from different trophic levels, including microbes, arthropods and vertebrates. Further, carrion consumption by scavengers, i.e. scavenging, supports key ecosystem functions and services such as recycling nutrients and energy, disposing of carcasses and regulating disease spread. Yet, unlike dead plant matter, dead animal decomposition has received little attention in the fields of ecology, wildlife conservation and environmental management, and as a result the management of carrion for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems ha...
Time Out Film Guide
From "TimeOut" magazine comes this ninth edition of its film guide that features stills and information on the films covered in the pages of the magazine.
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Señores del paisaje
Este libro es un estudio revisionista de ciertas asunciones de la historia económica, la historia social y la historia medieval cuando abordan el tema del pastoreo en España. La investigación cuestiona una narrativa dominante que sostiene que la actividad ganadera tuvo efectos negativos como la deforestación y el atraso de la agricultura española. En este libro se propone que los fundamentos comunitarios de la ganadería en la península Ibérica y sus usos colectivos sobre la tierra preservaron una demografía y una explotación sostenida de los montes hasta el siglo xvii que favoreció la reproducción de los pequeños ganaderos junto a los grandes y un paisaje de gran diversidad.
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