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Book Synopsis Deadly Rhinoceroses by : Theresa Emminizer
Download or read book Deadly Rhinoceroses written by Theresa Emminizer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two species of rhinoceroses live in Africa: the white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros. However, both are actually gray. They can run very fast and are some of the largest land mammals in the world. Your readers will learn about where these huge, horned creatures live, what they look like, what they eat, and how they behave. They'll be ready to go on a safari and identify African rhinos in the wild.
Book Synopsis Deadly Rhinoceroses by : Theresa Emminizer
Download or read book Deadly Rhinoceroses written by Theresa Emminizer and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two species of rhinoceroses live in Africa: the white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros. However, both are actually gray. They can run very fast and are some of the largest land mammals in the world. Your readers will learn about where these huge, horned creatures live, what they look like, what they eat, and how they behave. They'll be ready to go on a safari and identify African rhinos in the wild.
Download or read book A Crash of Rhinos written by Seth Lynch and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though a group of rhinos is often small, people have given them their own special name. These small groups, usually only made up of a female rhino and her offspring, are called a crash. Through the approachable narrative, young readers learn why rhinos prefer to live in sets of two and how mothers raise their babies. With photographs of rhinos in the wild, readers see firsthand what life in a crash is like and learn what a mother rhino does to protect her young.
Download or read book The Gray Rhino written by Michele Wucker and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 English-language bestseller in China--the book that is shaping China's planning and policy for the future. A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings and visible evidence. The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the new digital technologies that upended the media world, the fall of the Soviet Union...all were evident well in advance. Why do leaders and decision makers keep failing to address obvious dangers before they spiral out of control? Drawing on her extensive background in policy formation and crisis management, as well as in-depth interviews with leaders from around the world, Michele Wucker shows in The Gray Rhino how to recognize and strategically counter looming high impact threats. Filled with persuasive stories, real-world examples, and practical advice, The Gray Rhino is essential reading for managers, investors, planners, policy makers, and anyone who wants to understand how to profit by avoiding getting trampled.
Book Synopsis Deadly Beautiful by : Liana Joy Christensen
Download or read book Deadly Beautiful written by Liana Joy Christensen and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that the humble marmot is responsible for more than one billion human deaths? Or that it’s possible to be bitten by a snake’s head for up to an hour after it’s been decapitated? On the flip side, for every person bitten by a shark each year, 25 people are bitten by New Yorkers. It seems that truth sometimes is stranger than fiction!These facts and many more appear in this fascinating tribute to our world’s ‘deadly’ wildlife. At its heart, however, 'Deadly Beautiful' makes a passionate plea for us to learn to better cohabit with our fellow residents of planet Earth. Ever-increasing concern for the fate of the environment and the world’s endangered wildlife means that this book is a particularly timely addition to the world of natural history publishing. Dr Liana Joy Christensen, one of Australia’s foremost nature writers, takes a fresh and entertaining look at the ‘deadly’ animals with which humans have for so long enjoyed a love–hate relationship. These animals are generally not the aggressors nor the lethal killing machines that mythology and tradition would have us believe. Most also serve vital roles in maintaining the ecological balance of their habitats, while their fascinating behaviour and often striking beauty make them worthy of close study, particularly as so many of them are facing the worst death of all — extinction.Beautifully illustrated, 'Deadly Beautiful' is certain to foster a new understanding and appreciation of these incredible animals and their importance on a global scale.
Book Synopsis The Book of Deadly Animals by : Gordon Grice
Download or read book The Book of Deadly Animals written by Gordon Grice and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether at a zoo, on a camping trip, or under our bedsheets, we are surrounded by animals. While most are perfectly harmless, it's the magnificent exceptions that populate The Book of Deadly Animals. Award-winning writer Gordon Grice takes readers on a tour of the animal kingdom—from grizzly bears to great white sharks, big cats to crocodiles. Every page overflows with astonishing facts about Earth's great predators and unforgettable stories of their encounters with humans, all delivered in Grice's signature dark comic style. Illustrated with awe-inspiring photographs of beasts and bugs, this wondrous work will horrify, delight, and amaze.
Book Synopsis Horn of Darkness by : Carol Cunningham
Download or read book Horn of Darkness written by Carol Cunningham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 de-horn 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 de-horning 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 nate 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 de-horning project might backfire--that in the four years after de-horning began, calf survival was down (the evidence suggests that hyenas might be preying on calves and the horn less 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.
Download or read book Deadly Animals written by Anna Claybourne and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadliest animal on Earth is also one of the smallest. The mosquito is a vector, or carrier, of diseases that kill millions of people every year. Readers learn about how and why this is, among other facts about animals with other deadly defenses. Full-color photographs highlight the powerful jaws of the grizzly bear, the huge horn of the rhino, and much more. Readers can see some of the worlds predators closer than would be possible, even in a zoo! In addition, fact boxes describe each animals behavior, size, and even endangered status.
Book Synopsis The World's Deadliest Animals by : Sean Price
Download or read book The World's Deadliest Animals written by Sean Price and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a top-ten format presents the worlds deadliest animals"--
Book Synopsis African Nature Notes and Reminiscences by : Frederick Courteney Selous
Download or read book African Nature Notes and Reminiscences written by Frederick Courteney Selous and published by London, [England] : Macmillan. This book was released on 1908 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Survival or Extinction? by : Bridget Martin
Download or read book Survival or Extinction? written by Bridget Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with passion for anyone interested in seeing an end to the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, this book shows how, by working together, people all over the world who care about these animals are gradually bringing about change for the better. It takes an overview of how the current situation came to pass by exploring poaching and its devastating consequences and the pivotal role of organized crime. The discussion of how matters are starting to improve covers the investigation and monitoring of ivory markets, sustainable uses and the key role of local communities.Enforcement of the law is vital in this story. Enter the enforcers, the technology they use to defeat the poachers and the evidence they require to prosecute offenders. Cases, some deeply shocking, are included, as well as a number of fascinating case studies, while the exploits of organized crime gangs make lively, as well as disturbing reading. Throughout the message is clear. We can and must save these animals from extinction.
Download or read book Deadly Instinct written by Melissa Farris and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Photographs of the animal kingdom showing predation, anti-predatory adaptations, competition, and play"--Provided by publisher"--
Book Synopsis Last of the Giants by : Jeff Campbell
Download or read book Last of the Giants written by Jeff Campbell and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, and there is only one likely reason for that: the evolution and arrival of the earth's only tool-wielding hunter, the wildly adaptive, comparatively pint-sized human species. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures—including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk—have vanished since our world became truly global. Last of the Giants chronicles those giant animals and apex predators pushed to extinction in the modern era. The book also highlights those giant species that remain—even though many barely survive, living in such low numbers that they are on the brink of leaving this world within the next few decades. However, there is hope, for many endangered species can still be saved. As it profiles each extinct and endangered animal, Last of the Giants focuses on the conservation efforts that are trying to preserve the world's remaining charismatic species before they are lost forever.
Book Synopsis Wrestling with Rhinos by : Jerry C. Haigh
Download or read book Wrestling with Rhinos written by Jerry C. Haigh and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1965, you've just fulfilled a boyhood ambition and graduated from the vet college in Glasgow. The very next week you find yourself in Kenya, treating wild animals. This is what happened to Dr. Jerry Haigh, who in Wrestling with Rhinos takes us deep into the post-independence Kenya of the mid-sixties. Haigh's reminiscences are peppered with observations, sometimes hilarious, sometimes scurrilous, on the social scene in Kenya, but it is his experiences working with the wild and unfamiliar African animals that make this such a captivating read. With photos.
Book Synopsis Environmental Crime by : Mary Clifford
Download or read book Environmental Crime written by Mary Clifford and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices include: Glossary, Important environmental activities, Criminal sanctions outlined in federal environmental legislation, environmental legal cases, environmental crimes investigations for law enforcement officers.
Book Synopsis Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching by : John Hanks
Download or read book Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching written by John Hanks and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aggressive poaching of rhinos needs to be countered with equal aggression. So argued Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the founder president of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), at a 1987 meeting with John Hanks, conservation expert and WWF’s head in Africa. The result was Operation Lock, a secret initiative funded by Prince Bernhard and staffed by former SAS operatives. Operation Lock set up headquarters in Johannesburg and extended its reach into neighbouring states: Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique. Its operatives planned to train game rangers, to pose as rhino horn traders in order to entrap buyers, and to expose the kingpins who were driving the trade. It was a controversial approach, all the more because it was working within apartheid South Africa in the late 1980s. When the existence of the project was finally leaked, WWF denied any involvement, and John Hanks took the fall. In Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching, John Hanks finally tells the story of these explosive events from 25 years ago. As a leading international authority on conservation, he also deals with the scourge of rhino poaching up to the present, and gives powerful and controversial criticism of some of the current policies to curb poaching.
Book Synopsis The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino by : Jerry Toner
Download or read book The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino written by Jerry Toner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient times, the Roman games—that heady cocktail of mass slaughter, gladiatorial combat, and chariot racing—made strong political, social, and cultural statements. The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus’s passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt of shooting a tiger, an elephant, and a hippopotamus; his prowess was such that people claimed he never missed when hurling his javelin or firing arrows from his bow. For fourteen days near the end of AD 192, the emperor mounted one of the most lavish and spectacular gladiatorial games Rome had ever seen. Commodus himself was the star attraction, and people rushed from all over Italy to witness the spectacle. But this slaughter was simply the warm-up act to the main event: the emperor was also planning to fight as a gladiator. Why did Roman rulers spend vast resources on such over-the-top displays—and why did some emperors appear in them as combatants? Why did the Roman rabble enjoy watching the slaughter of animals and the sight of men fighting to the death? And how best can we in the modern world understand what was truly at stake in the circus and the arena? In The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino, Jerry Toner set out to answer these questions by vividly describing what it would have been like to attend Commodus’ fantastic shows and watch one of his many appearances as both hunter and fighter. Highlighting the massive logistical effort needed to supply the games with animals, performers, and criminals for execution, the book reveals how blood and gore were actually incidental to what really mattered. Gladiatorial games played a key role in establishing a forum for political debate between the rulers and the ruled. Roman crowds were not passive: they were made up of sophisticated consumers with their own political aims, which they used the games to secure. In addition, the games also served as a pure expression of what it meant to be a true Roman. Drawing on notions of personal honor, manly vigor, and sophisticated craftsmanship, the games were a story that the Romans loved to tell themselves about themselves.
