Dire Wolf Project
Dire Wolf Project

Author: Jennifer Stoeckl

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781950333011

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Not just another dog breeding book, Dire Wolf Project: Creating an Extraordinary Dog Breed is a rare and unique glimpse into the minds that began creating the American Alsatian dog over thirty years ago. Jennifer Stoeckl, the co-founder of the Dire Wolf Project, shares intriguing stories, refutes critical arguments from skeptics, and fully explains the breed's most controversial breeding practices. Backed by scientific research, the Dire Wolf Project breaks the mold formed by the most rigid dog breeding minds in order to think outside the proverbial whelping box. The Dire Wolf Project is a much needed comprehensive solution to the most heartbreaking health issues experienced in purebred dogs today. The project draws on age old breeding practices that have long been forgotten by today's standards while at the same time develops revolutionary new ideas that bring this unique companion dog into the limelight of today's most prestigious dog breeds. Enter the extraordinary world of the Dire Wolf Project and learn how a new dog breed begins, what it takes to sustain a diverse population over time, and how to travel from purebred to strongbred on the road to healthy, long-lived dogs.

Pursuit of the Petras
Pursuit of the Petras

Author: Gabriel Paulson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781950333028

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Within this second book of the continuing Jacob Lake trilogy is a tale of good versus evil as Marielle lives out her isolation in the canyon alcove while the newly ordained Knights of the Sangrahl attempt to uncover the magical "Petras" in 15th century Ireland. Shoebottom returns utilizing his wit to outsmart all who pursue the Petras. With the mystical return of a lost hero, Pursuit of the Petras promises to further uncover the mysteries introduced in Book I, Pursuit of the Keepers.

The Secret World of Red Wolves
The Secret World of Red Wolves

Author: T. DeLene Beeland

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013-06-10

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1469602008

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Red wolves are shy, elusive, and misunderstood predators. Until the 1800s, they were common in the longleaf pine savannas and deciduous forests of the southeastern United States. However, habitat degradation, persecution, and interbreeding with the coyote nearly annihilated them. Today, reintroduced red wolves are found only in peninsular northeastern North Carolina within less than 1 percent of their former range. In The Secret World of Red Wolves, nature writer T. DeLene Beeland shadows the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's pioneering recovery program over the course of a year to craft an intimate portrait of the red wolf, its history, and its restoration. Her engaging exploration of this top-level predator traces the intense effort of conservation personnel to save a species that has slipped to the verge of extinction. Beeland weaves together the voices of scientists, conservationists, and local landowners while posing larger questions about human coexistence with red wolves, our understanding of what defines this animal as a distinct species, and how climate change may swamp its current habitat.

The Wake
The Wake

Author: Paul Kingsnorth

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1555979076

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"A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-04-14

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 022659971X

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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs—they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken—imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to witness the process of domestication. This is the extraordinary, untold story of this remarkable undertaking. Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut’s fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with floppy ears, piebald spots, and curly tails. Along with these physical changes came genetic and behavioral changes, as well. The foxes were bred using selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became increasingly interested in human companionship. Trut has been there the whole time, and has been the lead scientist on this work since Belyaev’s death in 1985, and with Lee Dugatkin, biologist and science writer, she tells the story of the adventure, science, politics, and love behind it all. In How to Tame a Fox, Dugatkin and Trut take us inside this path-breaking experiment in the midst of the brutal winters of Siberia to reveal how scientific history is made and continues to be made today. To date, fifty-six generations of foxes have been domesticated, and we continue to learn significant lessons from them about the genetic and behavioral evolution of domesticated animals. How to Tame a Fox offers an incredible tale of scientists at work, while also celebrating the deep attachments that have brought humans and animals together throughout time.

Claimed
Claimed

Author: J.R. Ward

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-07-27

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1982150378

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A heart-pounding new series set in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world, about a scientist fighting to save the gray wolves—and getting caught in a deadly trap herself... Lydia Susi is passionate about protecting wolves in their natural habitat. When a hotel chain develops a tract of land next to the preserve, Lydia is one of the most vocal opponents of the project—and becomes a target. One night, a shadowy figure threatens Lydia’s life in the forest, and a new hire at the Wolf Study Project comes from out of nowhere to save her. Daniel Joseph is both mysterious, and someone she intrinsically wants to trust. But is he hiding something? As the stakes get higher, and one of Lydia’s colleagues is murdered, she must decide how far she will go to protect the wolves. Then a shocking revelation about Daniel challenges Lydia’s reality in ways she could never have predicted. Some fates demand courage, while others require even more, with no guarantees. Is she destined to have true love...or will a soul-shattering loss ruin her forever?

Shadows on the Trail
Shadows on the Trail

Author: John Bradford Branney

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781612961910

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Shadows on the Trail takes place on the plains and mountains of Texas and Colorado at the end of the Ice Age, a time of escalating temperatures, melting glaciers, and large mammal extinctions. It was a time when small bands of humans fought to survive in a violent and unpredictable world. This is a tale of three prehistoric tribes whose paths collide, culminating into an emotional thriller filled with the devastating forces of nature, predatory animals, and human emotion. The seed for Shadows on the Trail sprouted on an early summer morning in 2010 on a northern Colorado ranch where the author found an Ice Age stone tool made from a red and gray striped rock from a prehistoric rock quarry from the Panhandle of Texas. How did this stone tool end up in a prehistoric campsite in northern Colorado? Who made it? What was he or she like? What happened on its journey from Texas to northern Colorado? Since it was impossible to ask the prehistoric maker of the stone tool these questions, the author wrote his version of this remarkable journey.

The Wolf Border
The Wolf Border

Author: Sarah Hall

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0062208497

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From the award-winning author of Burntcoat and The Electric Michelangelo, one of the most decorated young British writers working today, comes a literary masterpiece: a breathtaking work that beautifully and provocatively surveys the frontiers of the human spirit and our animal drives. For almost a decade, zoologist Rachel Caine has lived a solitary existence far from her estranged family in England, monitoring wolves in a remote section of Idaho as part of a wildlife recovery program. But a surprising phone call takes her back to the peat and wet light of the Lake District where she grew up. The eccentric Earl of Annerdale has a controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside, and he wants Rachel to spearhead the project. Though she’s skeptical, the earl’s lands are close to the village where she grew up, and where her aging mother now lives. While the earl’s plan harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness, Rachel must contend with modern-day realities—health and safety issues, public anger and fear, cynical political interests. But the return of the Grey unexpectedly sparks her own regeneration. Exploring the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, The Wolf Border illuminates both our animal nature and humanity: sex, love, conflict, and the desire to find answers to the question of our existence—the emotions, desires, and needs that rule our lives.

Finn the Wolfhound
Finn the Wolfhound

Author: Alec John Dawson

Publisher: Library of Alexandria

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1465520686

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A champion Irish wolfhound becomes separated from his master and leads a pack of wild dogs in Australia and finally dog and master meet again. Grades 7 and up.