The Unlikely Predator
Author: Wayne Hancock
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-03-28
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1456897047
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Predators of North America
Author: Dave Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781550465204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA season-by-season look at North America's most thrilling predator species.
Escaping From Predators
Author: William E. Cooper, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-28
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1316368483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions – these critical questions are the foci of this book. Cooper and Blumstein bring together a balance of theory and empirical research to summarise over fifty years of scattered research and benchmark current thinking in the rapidly expanding literature on the behavioural ecology of escaping. The book consolidates current and new behaviour models with taxonomically divided empirical chapters that demonstrate the application of escape theory to different groups. The chapters integrate behaviour with physiology, genetics and evolution to lead the reader through the complex decisions faced by prey during a predator attack, examining how these decisions interact with life history and individual variation. The chapter on best practice field methodology and the ideas for future research presented throughout, ensure this volume is practical as well as informative.
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
Author: David Quammen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-09-17
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 039307630X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure....A treasure trove of exotic fact and hard thinking." —New York Times Book Review For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above—so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo and The Tangled Tree examines the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia, of brown bears in the mountains of Romania, and of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East. In the poignant and troublesome ferocity of these embattled creatures, we recognize something primeval deep within us, something in danger of vanishing forever.
Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions
Author: Pedro Barbosa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-08-11
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780195171204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate predators. The book should appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue of predation effects on communities.
Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record
Author: Patricia H. Kelley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 146150161X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Foreword: "Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all organism-organism interactions....It will only be by compiling and evaluating data on predator-prey relations as they are recorded in the fossil record that we can hope to tease apart their role in the tangled web of evolutionary interaction over time. This volume, compiled by a group of expert specialists on the evidence of predator-prey interactions in the fossil record, is a pioneering effort to collate the information now accumulating in this important field. It will be a standard reference on which future study of one of the central dynamics of ecology as seen in the fossil record will be built." (Richard K. Bambach, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Associate of the Botanical Museum, Harvard University)
Research Handbook on the Economics of Antitrust Law
Author: Einer Elhauge
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0857938096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne might mistakenly think that the long tradition of economic analysis in antitrust law would mean there is little new to say. Yet the field is surprisingly dynamic and changing. The specially commissioned chapters in this landmark volume offer a rigorous analysis of the field's most current and contentious issues. Focusing on those areas of antitrust economics that are most in flux, leading scholars discuss topics such as: mergers that create unilateral effects or eliminate potential competition; whether market definition is necessary; tying, bundled discounts, and loyalty discounts; a new theory of predatory pricing; assessing vertical price-fixing after Leegin; proving horizontal agreements after Twombly; modern analysis of monopsony power; the economics of antitrust enforcement; international antitrust issues; antitrust in regulated industries; the antitrust-patent intersection; and modern methods for measuring antitrust damages. Students and scholars of law and economics, law practitioners, regulators, and economists with an interest in industrial organization and consulting will find this seminal Handbook an essential and informative resource.
The Red Hourglass
Author: Gordon Grice
Publisher: Delta
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0307568148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSnake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home. Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live." Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil.
Predator & Prey: Judge
Author: Gherbod Fleming
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2024-06-10
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho is Fit to Judge? Douglas Sands is a middle-aged corporate manager whose comfortable life has been filled with loss and disappointment. He has a good job, lives in a fine home and wants for nothing... except, perhaps, for everything to be different, or perhaps just as it was years ago. Before his son died. Before he and his wife lost their passion for one another. Before a co-worker turned up dead. Sands finds himself yearning for the past even more when he begins to see and hear things that are not of the world he knew. Monsters lurking in the shadows seem to desire the only things of value to him. But even as his eyes open to the truths of the World of Darkness, Douglas Sands is forced to deal with the all-too-human mistakes he's made as well. He cannot help but wonder if he's truly fit to judge the supernatural fiends he discovers. Predator & Prey: Judge is the second in the series of six novels that explores the Hunters newly arrived within the World of Darkness and the supernatural foes they have an obligation to confront. In the course of the series, the line between hunter and the hunted continues to blur. The series continues with Predator & Prey: Werewolf.
Natural Enemies
Author: Michael J. Crawley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-07-30
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 1444314068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about disease and death. It is an ecologist's view of Darwin's vivid evocation of Nature, red in tooth and claw. An international team of authors examines broad patterns in the population biology of natural enemies, and addresses general questions about the role of natural enemies in the population dynamics and evolution of their prey. For instance, how do large natural enemies like wolves differ from small natural enemies like bacterial diseases in their effects on prey abundance? Is it better to chase after prey, or sit and wait for it to come to you? How should prey behave in order to minimize the risk of being eaten? The answers are all in this fascinating senior undergraduate/postgraduate text.
