Verleger: "The black rhino is
nature's tank, feared by all animals. Even lions will break off a hunt to detour around one. And yet the
black rhino is on the edge of extinction, its numbers dwindling from 100,000 at the turn of the century, to
less than 2,500 today. The reason is that in places like Yemen, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, the
rhino's horn is more valuable than gold, so valuable that people will risk their lives to harvest it. To
deter rhino poachers, African governments have spent millions - on helicopters, paramilitary operations,
fences and guard dogs, even relocation to protected areas. Finally, Namibia decided to dehorn its rhino
population, in a last ditch effort to stop the slaughter. In 1991, Carol Cunningham and Joel Berger, and
their eighteen-month-old daughter Sonja, went to Namibia to weigh the effects of dehorning on rhinos. In Horn
of Darkness, they tell the story of three years in the Namib Desert, studying Africa's last sizable
population of free-roaming black rhinos. This is the closest most readers will come to experiencing life in
the remaining wilds of Africa. Cunningham and Berger, writing alternate chapters, capture what it is like to
leave the comforts of civilization, to camp for months at a time in a land filled with deadly predators, to
study an animal that is reclusive, unpredictable, and highly dangerous. The authors describe staking out
water holes in the dead of the night, creeping to within twenty-seven meters of rhinos to photograph them,
all the while keeping a lookout for hyenas, elephants, and lions. They recount many heart-pounding escapes -
one rhino forces Carol Cunningham up a tree, an unseen lion in hot pursuit of hyenas races right past a
frozen Joel Berger - and capture the adrenaline rush of inching closer to a rhino that might flee - or
charge - at any moment. They also give readers a clear sense of the careful, patient work involved in
studying animals, the frustration of long days without finding rhinos or seeing other people, coping with
heat and thirst (the Namib desert is one of the driest on Earth), with dirt and insects, driving hundreds of
kilometers in a Land Rover packed to capacity, slowing amassing records on one hundred individual rhinos
over the course of several years. And perhaps most important, the authors reveal that the data they
collected suggests that the dehorning project might backfire - that in the four years after dehorning began,
calf survival was down (the evidence suggests that hyenas might be preying on calves and the hornless
mothers couldn't defend their offspring). They also describe the dark side of scientific work, from the
petty jealousy of other scientists - outside researchers were often seen as ecological imperialists - to the
controversy that erupted after the authors published their findings, as furious officials of the Namibian
conservation program denounced their findings and through delays and other tactics effectively withheld a
permit to allow the couple to continue their study. Weaving together the historical accounts of other
naturalists, a vividly detailed look at life in the wild, and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of scientific work
and the dark side of the conservation movement, Horn of Darkness is destined to be a classic work on
the natural world."
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In My Family Tree
A Life With Chimpanzees
von Sheila Siddle & Doug Cress, Vorwort von Jane Goodall
Klappentext: "Sheila Siddle's life
changed forever on one fateful day in 1983 when a local game ranger brought a battered, malnourished
chimpanzee to the door of her cattle ranch in central Zambia and asked her to do whatever possible to save
it. As Sheila and her husband, David, nursed the young chimp they would name Pal back to health, they cared
for him as if he were a human infant - feeding him medicine and bottled milk, sharing their bed with him at
night, and carrying him on their backs until he regained the strength to survive on his own. From these
humble beginnings Sheila and David Siddle would go on to launch the Chimfunshi Wildlife
Orphanage, a world-renowned animal refuge that has grown to become the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in
the world. Over eighty-five injured and unwanted chimps have found a home there, along with dozens of
monkeys, baboons, parrots, tortoises, and antelope - and one disarmingly domesticated hippopotamus named
Billy. In My Family Tree is Sheila Siddle's vibrant, vivacious story of how Chimfunshi came to be
- and the unforgettable chimps who have helped to make it, in the words of Jane Goodall, »the most
wonderful place on earth«. As she relates the experiences of the chimpanzees who have survived war,
abandonment, and abuse at the hand of humanity before reclaiming their lives as part of the Chimfunshi family,
Siddle vividly evokes each of their unique personalities. There is Milla, the wise elderly chimp Jane
Goodall brings to the Siddles who, after living among humans for decades (and acquiring a taste for
cigarettes and beer), must reintegrate into chimp society. There is Sandy, the mischievous troublemaker
whose antics distress the sanctuary's humans and primates alike, until a frightening brush with a local
predator changes him forever. And there is Rita, the emotionally scarred young chimp who blossoms in
maturity to become a devoted mother. Humorous and heartbreaking, full of insight and wonder, In My Family
Tree tells the uplifting story of one woman's transformation from a grandmother on the brink of
retirement to an internationally acclaimed animal welfare activist devoted to defending the habitat of our
closest genetic relatives - and the stories of the chimpanzees she has come to know and love along the
way."
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Kalahari Hyaenas
The Comparative Behavioural Ecology
of Two Species
Synopsis: "Behind this book lie 12
years of research into the comparative behavioural ecology of the brown and spotted hyaenas. Set in the
semi-arid region of the Kalahari, the author examines the roles of the two species in this finely balanced
ecosystem and highlights the factors and mechanisms responsible for limiting the populations. Feeding
ecology and social systems form the core themes of the study and reveal much new data on the links between
food distribution, diet and behaviour. The debt of research and extensive range of new material contained in
this book will have a direct impact on our present knowledge of hyaenas and our considerations for the
conservation management of these animals. The work is aimed at senior graduates, researchers and
professionals in zoology."
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Kalahari Hyenas (Reissue)
Comparative Behavioral Ecology of Two Species
Verleger: "This fascinating book,
originally published in 1990 and now available again from The Blackburn Press, focuses on a comparison of
the feeding ecology and social systems of the brown and spotted hyenas. Set in the semi-arid region of the
Kalahari, the book examines roles and interactions of the two species in this finely balanced ecosystem and
highlights the factors and mechanisms responsible for regulating the populations. The hyenas' interactions
with other large carnivores are also explored and this too offers novel insights as to their natural
behavior. Extracts from the author's field notes form a fascinating feature of the text and convey all the
thrill and anticipation of observing these remarkable animals in their own habitat."
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Liontide
von Christopher McBride, Dick Findlay (Illustrationen), Vorwort von
Nick Steele
Klappentext: "In May 1979,
Christopher McBride and his family loaded up a Land Rover and leaving Timbavati behind, travelled over 2000
kilometres to the heart of the Kalahari wastes. They set up a base camp in Savuti, Northern Botswana, where
the lion is king. A mere 20 metres from the Savuti channel, a stretch of water teeming with crocodiles,
catfish and pike, they constructed the grass and reed hut that was to be their home for nearly three years.
Rejecting the usual method of observing lions during sample periods, the McBrides chose instead to become
nocturnal themselves, and by so-doing to enter fully into the lions' nighttime kingdom, to witness at
first-hand their hunting and their play, their feasts and their famines, the whole complex ebb and flow of
their lives - the liontide. In this remarkable book Christopher McBride, author of The White Lions of
Timbavati, provides a dramatic record of his time with the night hunters of Savuti. This account of the
ceaseless struggle between Africa's largest carnivore, the lion, and its prey hurtles the reader into the
dust-swirled world of the Savuti lion prides with all its uncertainty and sudden death. Popular theories
about lions, their strengths and weaknesses, hunting tactics and prey preferences, are exploded one after
the other by a field researcher who spent endless nights watching and recording what happens under the veil
of darkness. This exciting narrative leads the reader right into the shadowy realms of the lion and reveals
startling new perspectives on Africa and its wildlife."
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Return to the Wild
A Story of Two Lions
von Norman Carr, Vorwort vom Earl of Dalhousie
Gebundene Ausgabe, 155 Seiten, 5 Farb-
& 31 SW-Fotos auf 28 Tafeln, 1 Karte William
Collins Sons & Co. (UK), April 1962
Klappentext: "It must be said at
once, such is the recent vogue for animal stories, that Return to the Wild is serious (but not
solemn), exciting and genuinely original. For over thirty years Norman Carr has made a study of lions -
their hunting, their mating, the education of their young and the establishment, often violent, of prides
and their territories. But in 1957 he became the guardian of two male cubs, Big Boy and Little Boy, and was
drawn even deeper into this absorbing world; he fed them and took them wherever he was posted by the Game
Department of Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], but otherwise they were under no constraint whatsoever. As a pair
they were less inhibited than a single lion might have been, and although many of their escapades were
amusing, others were sometimes dangerously exciting. One night two enraged and resident wild lions invaded
and occupied the author's camp, determined to drive Big Boy and Little Boy from their domain: the latter
made a poor showing. But by the Autumn of 1961 Big Boy and Little Boy were capable not only of killing for
themselves, but of defending a territory of their own. The time had come for Norman Carr to return them to
the wild. The author has put to remarkable use his opportunities for observing the wild life of Africa, in
all its beauty and its ruthlessness: snakes, elephants and crocodiles fascinate him as much as the problems
of conservation and the devastating effects of rain and drought. His book is vivid and readable but it is
the observations of lions and their habits - with the quite outstanding photographs - which make it
memorable."
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Verleger: "Scientific discovery is
not always the result of a careful accumulation of data or a measured consideration of the facts. Sometimes
it takes a leap of imagination. Katy Payne, a naturalist and conservationist, took just such a leap and made
an amazing discovery about how elephants communicate. And that was only the beginning of her adventure. In
1984, Katy Payne visited the elephants at Washington Park Zoo in Portland. Oregon. She had been studying
whale songs for the last fifteen years, and she was curious about the ways that elephants - the largest
living land mammals - communicated with each other. What Payne observed in her first week seemed, at the
time, to be little cause for scientific excitement. But on her flight home, she flushed back to a childhood
experience of singing in the church choir. Suddenly she realized that she had felt, in the presence of the
elephants, a deep throbbing in the air just like the lowest notes of the church organ. Payne and two
colleagues were soon able to show that elephants are powerful infrasound - sound pitched too low for the
human ear to hear - in communication. This 'silent thunder' allows elephants to intract over long distances.
This brilliant, unorthodox, nonlinearless was the basis of her discovery of infrasonic communication among
elephant and is typical of Payne's work as a naturalist. It also infuses this deeply felt and observed book
with an extraordinary spirit, Payne and her colleagues went on to do important field research on elephant
communication in Kenya, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. But in 1991 the peaceful rhythms of their work were violently
interrupted by a cull - a planned killing - that destroyed five of the elephant families they were studying.
This destruction convinced her that all life is sacred. Payne determined to challenge the philosophies that
support culling. Silent Thunder is a natural history rich in ponderings about the animal world and
how humans participate in it. It is also a passionate story of Payne's own spiritual quest as she turns an
observant eye on her own role in this world and honors the holistic perspective of her indigenous friends,
who became her teachers in Zimbabwe, Payne's courage and empathy shine through on every page, giving this
unique combination of scientific journal and personal memoir an unforgettable emotional power."
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Silent Thunder (Reprint)
The Hidden Voice of Elephants
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