Download or read book Plumes d azur Histoire naturelle du martin p cheur d Europe written by Libois, Roland and published by Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le martin-pêcheur, un des oiseaux européens les plus "exotiques" par ses couleurs, a toujours suscité l'émerveillement de ceux qui parviennent à l'observer. Prédateur de menu fretin, il a besoin, pour boucler son cycle de vie, de milieux aquatiques riches en poissons et surtout de berges meubles au profil vertical ou légèrement concave où il peut creuser le terrier dans lequel les oeufs sont pondus. Jadis détruit par l'homme en raison des dégâts aux piscicultures dont il était accusé, il est maintenant protégé par la loi, mais ses sites de nidification ne sont pas suffisamment respectés. Nombre de rivières sont gravement polluées, leurs berges reprofilées, rectifiées, enrochées, voire bétonnées : autant d'atteintes à la capacité d'accueil des milieux pour le roi-pêcheur. Le livre conte, en quelques chapitres, les éléments scientifiques pour comprendre la vie du martin-pêcheur. Après les présentations de rigueur (étymologie, histoire ancienne, classification zoologique, morphologie), on plonge dans la vie intime de l'oiseau : cycle de reproduction, perspective écologique, mais aussi éthologie. La démographie (naissance et décès) joue un rôle crucial pour comprendre les fluctuations des effectifs, qui dépendent étroitement de la mortalité hivernale et de la production de jeunes. La plasticité comportementale est révélée par des cas particuliers, notamment au moyen de la génétique moléculaire. Finalement, déplacements et migration, régime alimentaire, système social ou encore prédateurs sont autant de thèmes abordés dans cet ouvrage.
Download or read book Plumes d azur written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kingfisher, one of the most "exotic" European birds by its colors, has always aroused the wonder of those who manage to observe it. A predator of small fry, it needs, to complete its life cycle, aquatic environments rich in fish and especially soft banks with a vertical or slightly concave profile where it can dig the burrow in which the eggs are laid. Formerly destroyed by man because of the damage to fish farms of which it was accused, it is now protected by law, but its nesting sites are not sufficiently respected. Many rivers are seriously polluted, their banks reprofiled, rectified, coated, even concreted: so many attacks on the capacity of the environment for the kingfisher. The book tells, in a few chapters, the scientific elements to understand the life of the kingfisher. After the rigorous presentations (etymology, ancient history, zoological classification, morphology), we dive into the intimate life of the bird: reproduction cycle, ecological perspective, but also ethology. Demography (births and deaths) plays a crucial role in understanding fluctuations in numbers, which are closely linked to winter mortality and the production of young. Behavioral plasticity is revealed by particular cases, notably by means of molecular genetics. Finally, movement and migration, diet, social systems and predators are discussed in this book. / Le martin-pêcheur, un des oiseaux européens les plus « exotiques » par ses couleurs, a toujours suscité l'émerveillement de ceux qui parviennent à l'observer. Prédateur de menu fretin, il a besoin, pour boucler son cycle de vie, de milieux aquatiques riches en poissons et surtout de berges meubles au profil vertical ou légèrement concave où il peut creuser le terrier dans lequel les oeufs sont pondus. Jadis détruit par l'homme en raison des dégâts aux piscicultures dont il était accusé, il est maintenant protégé par la loi, mais ses sites de nidification ne sont pas suffisamment respectés. Nombre de rivières sont gravement polluées, leurs berges reprofilées, rectifiées, enrochées, voire bétonnées : autant d'atteintes à la capacité d'accueil des milieux pour le roi-pêcheur. Le livre conte, en quelques chapitres, les éléments scientifiques pour comprendre la vie du martin-pêcheur. Après les présentations de rigueur (étymologie, histoire ancienne, classification zoologique, morphologie), on plonge dans la vie intime de l'oiseau : cycle de reproduction, perspective écologique, mais aussi éthologie. La démographie (naissance et décès) joue un rôle crucial pour comprendre les fluctuations des effectifs, qui dépendent étroitement de la mortalité hivernale et de la production de jeunes. La plasticité comportementale est révélée par des cas particuliers, notamment au moyen de la génétique moléculaire. Finalement, déplacements et migration, régime alimentaire, système social ou encore prédateurs sont autant de thèmes abordés dans cet ouvrage.
Download or read book Synth se bibliographique sur le Martin p cheur d Europe Alcedo atthis et tude de l utilisation des ressources territoriales et piscicoles du lac de Vezins dans la Manche 50 written by Vincent Métral and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le martin-pêcheur d'Europe (Alcedo atthis) reste très peu étudié en France, bien que ses effectifs y soient relativement importants au regard de ceux retrouvés en Europe. Pourtant, les études et publications à son sujet sont nombreuses dans les autres pays européens, notamment en Angleterre, en Espagne et en Belgique. Toutefois, ces travaux se focalisent la plupart du temps sur un aspect bien particulier de sa biologie ; rares sont ceux qui réalisent un tour d'horizon complet des connaissances relatives à cet oiseau. Dans un premier temps, l'auteur a regroupé le maximum de données scientifiques sur le martin-pêcheur d'Europe tout en les complétant, sur certains aspects, à l'aide de ses connaissances et compétences vétérinaires, notamment en zootechnie. L'auteur aborde successivement l'origine et la place dans la classification du martin-pêcheur, ses caractères morphologiques, sa démographie, son comportement et sa place dans la société. Dans un second temps, l'auteur a appliqué un certain nombre de méthodes décrites dans la littérature à une population de martins-pêcheurs présents sur un lac : celui de VEZINS, dans la manche (50). cette étude lui a permis de réaliser une première approche de la reproduction et de l'utilisation des ressources territoriale et piscicole du lac par cette population.
Download or read book Histoire naturelle des oiseaux orn e de 306 estampes dessin es grav es par Eleazar Albin et augment e de notes de remarques curieuses par W Derham Traduite de l anglois Tome premier troisi me written by William Derham and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La plume des oiseaux written by Just Marie Nicolas Montillot and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre traite de l'utilisation des plumes d'oiseaux dans l'histoire naturelle, l'industrie et la culture. Il contient des informations sur les différentes espèces d'oiseaux dont on utilise les plumes, ainsi que sur les usages variés des plumes dans différents contextes. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Kingfishers and Related Birds Family Alcedinidae v 1 Ceryle to Cittura v 2 Halcyon to Tanysiptera written by Joseph Michael Forshaw and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salvator Rosa in French Literature written by James Patty and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Download or read book Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names written by James A. Jobling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
Download or read book Our Fathers Have Told Us written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Esther Happy written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Download or read book Intentions Annotated written by Oscar Wilde and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intentions By Oscar Wilde was published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur's famous wit and wide learning. A leading spokesman for the English Aesthetic movement, Wilde promoted art for art's sake against critics who argued that art must serve a moral purpose. On every page of this collection the gifted literary stylist admirably demonstrates not only that the characteristics of art are "distinction, charm, beauty, and imaginative power, but also that criticism itself can be raised to an art form possessing these very qualities. In the opening essay, Wilde laments the decay of Lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure. He takes to task modern literary realists like Henry James and Emile Zola for their "monstrous worship of facts" and stifling of the imagination. What makes art wonderful, he says, is that it is absolutely indifferent to fact, invents, imagines, dreams, and keeps between herself and reality the impenetrable barrier of beautiful style, of decorative or ideal treatment.
Download or read book Master of the River written by Félix Antoine Savard and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Torture Garden written by Octave Mirbeau and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One evening some friends were gathered at the home of one of our most celebrated writers. Having dined sumptuously, they were discussing murder—apropos of what, I no longer remember probably apropos of nothing. Only men were present: moralists, poets, philosophers and doctors—thus everyone could speak freely, according to his whim, his hobby or his idiosyncrasies, without fear of suddenly seeing that expression of horror and fear which the least startling idea traces upon the horrified face of a notary. I—say notary, much as I might have said lawyer or porter, not disdainfully, of course, but in order to define the average French mind. With a calmness of spirit as perfect as though he were expressing an opinion upon the merits of the cigar he was smoking, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences said: “Really—I honestly believe that murder is the greatest human preoccupation, and that all our acts stem from it... “ We awaited the pronouncement of an involved theory, but he remained silent. “Absolutely!” said a Darwinian scientist, “and, my friend, you are voicing one of those eternal truths such as the legendary Monsieur de La Palisse discovered every day: since murder is the very bedrock of our social institutions, and consequently the most imperious necessity of civilized life. If it no longer existed, there would be no governments of any kind, by virtue of the admirable fact that crime in general and murder in particular are not only their excuse, but their only reason for being. We should then live in complete anarchy, which is inconceivable. So, instead of seeking to eliminate murder, it is imperative that it be cultivated with intelligence and perseverance. I know no better culture medium than law.” Someone protested. “Here, here!” asked the savant, “aren't we alone, and speaking frankly?” “Please!” said the host, “let us profit thoroughly by the only occasion when we are free to express our personal ideas, for both I, in my books, and you in your turn, may present only lies to the public.” The scientist settled himself once more among the cushions of his armchair, stretched his legs, which were numb from being crossed too long and, his head thrown back, his arms hanging and his stomach soothed by good digestion, puffed smoke−rings at the ceiling: “Besides,” he continued, “murder is largely self−propagating. Actually, it is not the result of this or that passion, nor is it a pathological form of degeneracy. It is a vital instinct which is in us all—which is in all organized beings and dominates them, just as the genetic instinct. And most of the time it is especially true that these two instincts fuse so well, and are so totally interchangeable, that in some way or other they form a single and identical instinct, so that we no longer may tell which of the two urges us to give life, and which to take it—which is murder, and which love. I have been the confidant of an honorable assassin who killed women, not to rob them, but to ravish them. His trick was to manage things so that his sexual climax coincided exactly with the death−spasm of the woman: 'At those moments,' he told me, 'I imagined I was a God, creating a world!”
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language written by Auguste Brachet and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zoological Surrealism written by James Leo Cahill and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé Before Jacques-Yves Cousteau, there was Jean Painlevé, a pioneering French scientific and nature filmmaker with a Surrealist’s eye. Creator of more than two hundred films, his studies of strange animal worlds doubled as critical reimaginations of humanity. With an unerring eye for the uncanny and unexpected, Painlevé and his assistant Geneviève Hamon captured oneiric octopuses, metamorphic crustaceans, erotic seahorses, mythic vampire bats, and insatiable predatory insects. Zoological Surrealism draws from Painlevé’s early oeuvre to rethink the entangled histories of cinema, Surrealism, and scientific research in interwar France. Delving deeply into Painlevé’s archive, James Leo Cahill develops an account of “cinema’s Copernican vocation”—how it was used to forge new scientific discoveries while also displacing and critiquing anthropocentric viewpoints. From Painlevé’s engagements with Sergei Eisenstein, Georges Franju, and competing Surrealists to the historiographical dimensions of Jean Vigo’s concept of social cinema, Zoological Surrealism taps never-before-examined sources to offer a completely original perspective on a cutting-edge filmmaker. The first extensive English-language study of Painlevé’s early films and their contexts, it adds important new insight to our understanding of film while also contributing to contemporary investigations of the increasingly surreal landscapes of climate change and ecological emergency.
Download or read book Contes Francais written by Douglas Labaree Buffum and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
