Download or read book Studying mammals Meat eaters written by The Open University and published by The Open University. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 10-hour free course looked at the lives of carnivores and explored their physical adaptations and social behaviour.
Download or read book Studying mammals The opportunists written by The Open University and published by The Open University. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 10-hour free course examined the physiology, diet and adaptive strategies of omnivorous mammals.
Download or read book The Life of Mammals written by David Attenborough and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and complete insight into the group of animals to which we ourselves belong. David Attenborough introduces us to the most diverse group of animals ever to live on the Earth, from the smallest - the two-inch pygmy shrew, to the largest - the blue whale. The Life of Mammals is the story of 4,000 species which have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on earth.
Download or read book Meat Eating and Human Evolution written by Craig B. Stanford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins. Before 2.5 million years ago the presence and importance of meat in the hominid diet is unknown. After stone tools appear in the fossil record it seems clear that meat was eaten in increasing quantities, but whether it was obtained through hunting or scavenging remains a topic of intense debate. This book takes a novel and strongly interdisciplinary approach to the role of meat in the early hominid diet, inviting well-known researchers who study the human fossil record, modern hunter-gatherers, and nonhuman primates to contribute chapters to a volume that integrates these three perspectives. Stanford's research has been on the ecology of hunting by wild chimpanzees. Bunn is an archaeologist who has worked on both the fossil record and modern foraging people. This will be a reconsideration of the role of hunting, scavenging, and the uses of meat in light of recent data and modern evolutionary theory. There is currently no other book, nor has there ever been, that occupies the niche this book will create for itself.
Download or read book The Life of Meat Eaters written by Donald Moyle and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carnivores written by John P. Rafferty Associate Editor, Earth Sciences and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume journeys from secluded forest habitats to our own homes to survey the unique features and behaviors of various species of carnivore.
Download or read book Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism written by Michael Huemer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over four days. The issues they cover include: how intelligence affects the badness of pain, whether consumers are responsible for the practices of an industry, how individual choices affect an industry, whether farm animals are better off living on factory farms than not existing at all, whether meat-eating is natural, whether morality protects those who cannot understand morality, whether morality protects those who are not members of society, whether humans alone possess souls, whether different creatures have different degrees of consciousness, why extreme animal welfare positions "sound crazy," and the role of empathy in moral judgment. The two students go on to discuss the vegan life, why people who accept the arguments in favor of veganism often fail to change their behavior, and how vegans should interact with non-vegans. A foreword, by Peter Singer, introduces and provides context for the dialogues, and a final annotated bibliography offers a list of sources related to the discussion. It offers abstracts of the most important books and articles related to the ethics of vegetarianism and veganism. Key Features: Thoroughly reviews the common arguments on both sides of the debate. Dialogue format provides the most engaging way of introducing the issues. Written in clear, conversational prose for a popular audience. Offers new insights into the psychology of our dietary choices and our responsibility for influencing others.
Download or read book Meat Culture written by Annie Potts and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the term ‘carnism’ denotes the invisible belief system (or ideology) that naturalizes and normalizes meat consumption, in this volume we focus on ‘meat culture’, which refers to all the tangible and practical forms through which carnist ideology is expressed and lived. Featuring new work from leading Australasian, European and North American scholars, Meat Culture, edited by Annie Potts, interrogates the representations and discourses, practices and behaviours, diets and tastes that generate shared beliefs about, perspectives on and experiences of meat in the 21st century.
Download or read book The Sexual Politics of Meat 20th Anniversary Edition written by Carol J. Adams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Download or read book Human and Animal Sensitivity written by Fabio Napolitano and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents cross-discipline studies covering aspects ranging from animal science to social/consumer sciences and psychology, with the aim to collect and disseminate information promoting the continuous enhancement of animal welfare by improving stakeholders’ perception of animal welfare. Although animal welfare is about how the animals perceive the surrounding environment, the actual welfare of the animals is dependent on how the stakeholders perceive and weigh animal welfare. The stakeholders can, either directly (i.e., through stock-people interaction with the animals) or indirectly (e.g., when retailers and consumers are willing to pay more for high welfare animal-based products), affect the way animals are kept and handled.
Download or read book Small Carnivores written by Emmanuel Do Linh San and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Carnivores: Evolution, Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation This book focuses on the 232 species of the mammalian Order Carnivora with an average body mass 21.5 kg. Small carnivores inhabit virtually all of the Earth's ecosystems, adopting terrestrial, semi-fossorial, (semi-)arboreal or (semi-)aquatic lifestyles. They occupy multiple trophic levels and therefore play important roles in the regulation of ecosystems, such as natural pest control, seed dispersal and nutrient cycling. In areas where humans have extirpated large carnivores, small carnivores may become the dominant predators, which may increase their abundance ("mesopredator release") to the point that they can sometimes destabilize communities, drive local extirpations and reduce overall biodiversity. On the other hand, one third of the world's small carnivores are threatened or near threatened with extinction. This results from regionally burgeoning human populations' industrial and agricultural activities, causing habitat reduction, destruction, fragmentation and pollution. Overexploitation, persecution and the impacts of introduced predators, competitors, and pathogens have also negatively affected many small carnivore species. Although small carnivores have been intensively studied over the past decades, bibliometric studies showed that they have not received the same attention given to large carnivores. Furthermore, there is huge disparity in how research efforts on small carnivores have been distributed, with some species intensively studied and others superficially or not at all. This book aims at filling a gap in the scientific literature by elucidating the important roles of, and documenting the latest knowledge on, the world's small carnivores. p"This is a book that has been needed for decades. It is the first compendium of recent research on a group of mammals which has received almost no attention before the early 1970s. This book covers a wide range of subdisciplines and techniques and should be considered a solid baseline for further research on this little-known group of highly interesting mammals. As our knowledge regarding how ecosystems function increases, then the valuable role of small carnivores and the necessity for their conservation should be regarded as of paramount importance. The topics covered in this book should therefore be of great interest not only to academics and wildlife researchers, but also to the interested layman."
Download or read book Meat eating Mammals written by Olive Lydia Earle and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meat eating Human Evolution written by Craig Britton Stanford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface. Foreword. Introduction. I MEAT-EATING AND THE FOSSIL RECORD. 1. Deconstructing the Serengeti. 2. Taphonomy of the Swartkrans hominid postcrania and its bearing on issues of meat-eating and fire management. 3. Neanderthal hunting and meat-processing in the Near East: evidence from Kebara Cave (Israel). 4. Modeling the edible landscape. II LIVING NONHUMAN ANALOGS FOR MEAT-EATING. 5. The dog-eat-dog world of carnivores: a review of past and present carnivore community dynamics. 6. Meat and the early human diet: insights from Neotropical primate studies. 7. The other faunivory: primate ins.
Download or read book Chimpanzee Material Culture written by William C. McGrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The implications of tool-use behaviour in chimpanzees for reconstructing the evolutionary origins of human culture are discussed in this book.
Download or read book Basic Studies in Science written by Wilbur Lee Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mostly Plant Based written by Mia Syn and published by Victory Belt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 100 recipes and a 21-Day Meal Plan, Registered Dietician Mia Syn helps you say goodbye to extreme dieting for life and unlock the secret to eating for health, longevity, and weight management In her new book, Mostly Plant-Based, Registered Dietitian Mia Syn helps you effortlessly transition to a plant-forward way of eating. Mia shows you a realistic and sustainable way to reboot your health, lose weight, and feel your best without having to exclude all animal-based foods. Mostly Plant-Based features 100 recipes, all made with 10 ingredients or less, plus a 21-day meal plan to jump-start healthy eating. All of Mia’s recipes are accompanied by full-color photos and can be customized to exclude or include meat and dairy according to your preferences. Most-Plant Based is complete with: · A guide to stocking a plant-forward kitchen · Easy-to-prepare recipes that call for no more than 10 accessible ingredients · A dietitian-developed 21-day meal plan with shopping lists · Useful charts and helpful hints to simplify cooking and help you get more veggies on your plate such as: o How to: Build an All-Day Energy Smoothie o How to: Build a Plant-Powered Sheet-Pan Meal o How to: Build a Mostly Plant-Based Adult Lunchbox · Customizable recipes that offer flavor variations, such as: o Salad Jars 6 Ways o White Bean Hummus 4 Ways o Overnight Oats and Chia Seed Pudding 6 Ways · Recipes inspired by classic comfort foods with a plant-forward twist, such as: o Zucchini Noodle Lasagna o Cauliflower and Parsnip Shepherd’s Pie o Chickpea Blondies With an evidence-based approach and appealing recipes for everyday meals, Mostly Plant-Based will help turn the pickiest eaters into veggie lovers.
Download or read book The Behavior Guide to African Mammals written by Richard Estes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of tremendous scope. . . . Amateur naturalists and tourists to the parks of Africa and finally professionals will find this a stimulating, well-documented summary."--John F. Eisenberg, Florida Museum of Natural History "We have seen in the field how very helpful and informative The Behavior Guide is. Our knowledgeable safari guides turned often to their prized and already well-thumbed copies, and we continue to refer to ours now that we are back home."--Douglas F. Williamson, Jr., National Council, World Wildlife Fund, U.S. "A fascinating, perceptive, and enjoyable travel companion heightens the pleasure of being afield. The Behavior Guide to African Mammals is that ideal companion. Lucid, accurate, and marvelously illustrated, the book is a basic reference for anyone interested in natural history."--George B. Schaller, author of The Serengheti Lion and The Deer and the Tiger "A remarkable review of what is known about the larger African mammals."--A.R.E. Sinclair, The Ecology Group, University of British Columbia
