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Author : Sara Swan Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780329264161
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Horses and Rhinos written by Sara Swan Miller and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how horses and rhinos are similar and where they fit into the order of the animal kingdom.
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253008190
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Rhinoceros Giants written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of the Indricotheres, introduces a prime candidate for the largest land mammal that ever lived - the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals lived in Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls 2 metres long, stood over 7 meters at the shoulder, and were nearly twice as heavy as the largest elephant ever recorded, tipping the scales at 20,000 kg. Fortunately, the big brutes were vegetarians, although they must have made predators think twice before trying to bring them down. In this book for lovers of ancient creatures great and small, Donald R. Prothero tells their story, from their discovery by palaeontologists just a century ago to the latest research on how they lived and died, with some interesting side trips along the way.
Author : Élise Rousseau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691167206
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Horses of the World written by Élise Rousseau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses of the World is a comprehensive, large-format overview of 570 breeds of domestic and extant wild horses, including hybrids between the two and between domestic breeds and other equids, such as zebras. This beautifully illustrated and detailed guide covers the origins of modern horses, anatomy and physiology, variation in breeds, and modern equestrian practices. The treatment of breeds is organized by country within broader geographical regions--from Eurasia through Australasia and to the Americas. Each account provides measurements (weight and height), distribution, origins and history, character and attributes, uses, and current status. Every breed is accompanied by superb color drawings--600 in total--and color photographs can be found throughout the book.--AMAZON.
Author : Margaret Elsinor Derry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802091121
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Horses in Society written by Margaret Elsinor Derry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada at the height of the species' usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. Margaret E. Derry shows how horse breeding practices used during this period to heighten the value of the animals in the marketplace incorporated a intriguing cross section of influences, including Mendelism, eugenics, and Darwinism. Derry elucidates the increasingly complex horse world by looking at the international trade in army horses, the regulations put in place by different countries to enforce better horse breeding, and general aspects of the dynamics of the horse market. Because it is a story of how certain groups attempted to control the market for horses, by protecting their breeding activities or 'patenting' their work, Horses in Society provides valuable background information to the rapidly developing present-day problem of biological ownership. Derry's fascinating study is also a story of the evolution of animal medicine and humanitarian movements, and of international relations, particularly between Canada and the United States.
Author : Jens Lorenz Franzen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rise of Horses written by Jens Lorenz Franzen and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessibly written and featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, The Rise of Horses is the complete chronicle of the evolution of the equids.
Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684827689
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Horses written by Stephen Budiansky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering origins and evolution, communication and behavior, physiology and biomechanics, seasoned nature writer and horse owner Stephen Budiansky offers an accessible guide to the centuries-old mysteries and the latest findings about this marvelous creature. Line drawings throughout. 4-page color insert.
Author : Marianne Johnston
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823952076
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Horses: Past and Present written by Marianne Johnston and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the prehistoric ancestors, evolution, and some modern breeds of horses.
Author : Alison Pearce Stevens
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250266580
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Rhinos in Nebraska written by Alison Pearce Stevens and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve million years ago, rhinos, elephants, and camels roamed North America. They would gather at nearby watering holes—eating, drinking, and trying not to become someone else’s lunch. But one day, in what we now know as Nebraska, everything changed. The explosion of a supervolcano a thousand miles away sent a blanket of ash that buried these animals for millennia. Until 1953, when a seventeen-year-old farm worker made an unbelievable discovery. Rhinos in Nebraska tells the story of the Ashfall Fossil Beds, where more than two hundred perfectly preserved fossils have been found. Step into the past with author Alison Pearce Stevens and uncover the mysteries of Ashfall.
Author : Fern Collins
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785834788
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Noble Horse written by Fern Collins and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 300 breeds of horse used for a variety of needs. This fascinating book contains all that is interesting about horses, including breeds, poetry, quotes, and other trivia.
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871351
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Horns, Tusks, and Flippers written by Donald R. Prothero and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the extinction of the dinosaurs, hoofed mammals have been the planet's dominant herbivores. Native to all continents except Australia and Antarctica, recent paleontological and biological discoveries have deepened understanding of their evolution. This text reveals their evolutionary history.
Author : Arup Kumar Dutta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unicornis, the Great Indian One-horned Rhinoceros written by Arup Kumar Dutta and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Is A Comprehensive Account Of The Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros, Its Past History And Present Status, Generic Characteristics, Temperament, Behaviour And Habits As Well As Its Position In The Scheme Of Nature.
Author : Sara Swan Miller
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531164013
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Horses and Rhinos written by Sara Swan Miller and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes members of the order of animals that have hooves with an odd number of toes, including horses, rhinoceroses, tapirs, asses, and zebras.
Author : Carolyn Willekes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786720094
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Horse in the Ancient World written by Carolyn Willekes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of equine iconography, literary representations, fieldwork and archaeological theory. She explores the ways in which horses were used in the ancient world, whether in regular cavalry formations, harnessed to chariots, as a means of reconnaissance, in swift and deadly skirmishing (such as by Scythian archers) or as the key mode of mobility. Establishing a regional typology of ancient horses - Mediterranean, Central Asian and Near Eastern - the author discerns within these categories several distinct sub-types. Explaining how the physical characteristics of each type influenced its use on the battlefield - through grand strategy, singular tactics and general deployment - she focuses on Egypt, Persia and the Hittites, as well as Greece and Rome. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet written of the horse in antiquity.
Author : Grant Fowlds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135120
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Saving the Last Rhinos written by Grant Fowlds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of Grant Fowlds, who has dedicated his life to saving the imperiled rhinos, vividly told with Graham Spence, co-author of the bestselling The Elephant Whisperer. What would drive a man to ‘smuggle’ rhino horn back into Africa at great risk to himself? This is just one of the situations Fowlds has put himself in as part of his ongoing fight against poaching, in order to prove a link between southern Africa and the illicit, lucrative trade in rhino horn in Vietnam. Shavings of rhino horn are sold as a snake-oil “cures,” but a rhino’s horn has no magical, medicinal properties whatsoever. Yet it is for this that rhinoceroses are being killed at an escalating rate that puts the survival of the species in jeopardy. This corrupt, illegal war on wildlife has brought an iconic animal to the brink of extinction. Growing up on a farm in the eastern Cape of South Africa, Grant developed a deep love of nature, turning his back on hunting to focus on saving wildlife of all kinds and the environment that sustains both them and us. He is a passionate conservationist who puts himself on the front line of protecting rhinos in the wild—right now, against armed poachers—and in the long term, through his work with schoolchildren, communities, and policymakers.
Author : Billy Bergin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824837440
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Hawaiian Horse written by Billy Bergin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring all things equine, from prehistoric origins to the present, The Hawaiian Horse illuminates the contributions of the horse to transportation, freight service, and agronomy in industries of ranching, sugar, pineapple, taro, rice, and coffee production in Hawai‘i. Comprehensive and deliberate, the book shows the evolution of the equine species—horse, mule, and donkey—as beasts of burden, for recreational pleasure, or as highly regarded competitive mounts. Beginning with the colorful introduction of the species, with its conquistador roots, and a history of the vaquero in Hawaiian cowboy culture, the authors take the reader on a journey through time, encountering along the way Hawaiian royalty, elegant pā‘ū riders in flowing gowns, horse racing, polo, rodeo, and the military's influence during both world wars. Novice and experienced equestrians will marvel at the development of the distinctive Hawaiian saddle, described with explicit detail and illustration of its artistry, production, and utility. Early equine import and export defied sheer practicality when repeatedly confronted with issues of fundamental humane care. Pioneers of this effort were determined to succeed, and succeed they did, establishing the horse as a symbol of status. As the horse gained favor with Hawaiians, the animal’s numbers grew to the point of overpopulation, with mounts seeking homes in mountains and valleys—eventually becoming wild and establishing “mustang” status similar to wild horse overpopulation in the Americas. Hawai‘i’s sugar industry, credited with progressive enrichment of horse quality through importation of genetic excellence, served as a model for major ranches such as Parker, Baldwin, Rice, Greenwell, and Dillingham, as they too, imported quality sires and mares. Two men stand out in this endeavor—A. W. Carter of Parker Ranch and Dr. J. C. FitzGerald of Maui. Two equestriennes also rise to the top for their fine work and contributions—Amy Rich, Hawai‘i’s quintessential horsemanship instructor, and Maui humanitarian, Haku Baldwin. Unique in their perspective, the authors’ depth of knowledge makes this volume a fitting tribute to the Hawaiian horse and the people involved in its advancement, elevating the noble animal to the stature it rightfully deserves in the history of Hawai‘i.
Author : Paula Hammond
Publisher : Animals
ISBN 13 : 9781838860172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Horses written by Paula Hammond and published by Animals. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Azteca to the Appaloosa, Choctaw to the Palomina, Australian Brumby to the Mongolian, Horses celebrates a range of beautiful animals. This all-encompassing volume includes everything from dressage and racehorses to police and rodeo horses, and it looks at the anatomy and lifecycle of foals, yearlings, colts, fillies, stallions, mares, and geldings. Exquisite images capture draft horses, warmbloods, light horses, thoroughbreds, gaited horses, and rare and feral breeds. Captions provide fascinating information on each type.
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884454
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate illustrated guide to the lost world of prehistoric mammals After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Here is the ultimate illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures. A woolly mammoth probably won't come thundering through your vegetable garden any time soon. But if one did, this would be the book to keep on your windowsill next to the binoculars. It covers all the main groups of fossil mammals, discussing taxonomy and evolutionary history, and providing concise accounts of the better-known genera and species as well as an up-to-date family tree for each group. No other book presents such a wealth of new information about these animals—what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they were interrelated. In addition, this unique guide is stunningly illustrated throughout with full-color reconstructions of these beasts—many never before depicted—along with photographs of amazing fossils from around the world. Provides an up-to-date guidebook to hundreds of extinct species, from saber-toothed cats to giant mammoths Features a wealth of color illustrations, including new reconstructions of many animals never before depicted Demonstrates evolution in action—such as how whales evolved from hoofed mammals and how giraffes evolved from creatures with short necks Explains how mass extinctions and climate change affected mammals, including why some mammals grew so huge
