Download or read book Wild Dogs A Novel written by Helen Humphreys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-06-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perspective on love and loss [that] will haunt you for days.”—Entertainment Weekly Alice's boyfriend abandons her dog, which joins a feral pack. Every evening, Alice and five others gather at the forest's edge, trying to call their dogs back. Most have similar tales of jealousy or vengeance enacted upon them through their dogs: Jamie is rebelling against his stepfather; Lily, who has suffered brain damage, is considered irresponsible. Becoming more deeply involved, Alice moves out to a cabin on land owned by Malcolm, one of the group, whose motives in having her there are suspicious. As she falls in love with the wildlife biologist whose wolf has gained lead of the pack, she feels the tug between love's wild power and her desire to domesticate it. After a tragic accident, all members of the group must rethink their lives and find their places in an untamed world. Wild Dogs strips away the conventions of love and passion to reveal deeper, richer truths.
Download or read book African Wild Dogs written by Brendan Whittington-Jones and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "450 is optimistically the number of free-ranging African wild dogs left in South Africa. If ever a charismatic, African species could be considered an underdog in the face of human development, the wild dog, Lycaon pictus is it. Available habitat is in short supply. An abundance of fences and roads cut the landscape. They are loved. They are despised. The immediate future of this dynamic, endangered, large carnivore is in the hands of a thinly spread, intensely committed network of conservationists, donors, state reserves and progressive landowners. When an opportunity to study wild dogs through the Endangered Wildlife Trust presented itself to Brendan Whittington-Jones in 2007, he arrived in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park naive to the challenges of real wildlife conservation. The next seven years were a flood of lessons in the complexity and fascination of wild dog management, anger management, Microsoft Office, diplomacy, optimism and how to play wild dog travel agent. The camaraderie of the unconventional crew of devoted field staff and researchers who dedicate so much to keep the species running was a revelation. This book lifts the gloss and illusion off a wedge of carnivore conservation, and reveals a snapshot of characters (human and canid) and organisations which tread the murky waters of trying to ensure the species' persistence in South Africa. There is only hope through action; and remembering a cold beer at sunset and good bloody laugh can restore a little sanity."--Back cover.
Download or read book Wild Dogs and Canines Wild Kratts written by Martin Kratt and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wild Kratts go in search of wolves, coyotes, and wild dogs of all sizes in this Step into Reading leveled reader with stickers! TARGET AUDIENCE: Nature, science, and animal fans ages four to six and their parents. PBS's successful animated show Wild Kratts joins the adventures of zoologists Chris and Martin Kratt as they travel to animal habitats around the globe. Along the way, they encounter incredible creatures while combining science education with fun. Children ages four to six can learn all about the wild cousins of man's best friend--from robust canines like wolves to sneaky foxes and more. Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories for beginning readers who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.
Download or read book Wild Dogs written by Michael Trant and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tough, fast and hard – my kind of book.' Lee Child In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners. Still coming to terms with his wife’s death – and the part he played in it – the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Amin, from certain execution. Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Amin's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. His main opponent is Chase Fowler, a kangaroo hunter with bush skills as wily and sharp as his own. As the old dogger and roo-shooter go head to head, Gabe will need all his cunning to come out of this alive... 'Wild Dogs is a just-one-more-chapter thriller that kept me up long after lights out.' Jack Heath 'Will leave you breathless. Wild Dogs is a wild ride, with some thought-provoking themes, unexpected twists, all set against a haunting landscape.’ Weekend Australian ‘This hard-bitten action novel reads like an Aussie western ... The book’s setting is atmospheric, and its action sequences surge with adrenaline and suspense as a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds.’ Sydney Morning Herald 'High octane, full throttle.’ Herald Sun
Download or read book Wild Dogs An Adventure in Adolescence written by Christos Kalogirou and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desire for power and respect can make you do crazy things-especially in high school. After all, there's no greater reward than the attention of your peers. Christos Kalogirou was fifteen when his parents enrolled him in the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a prestigious co-ed boarding school tucked away in Saskatchewan. For Christos, high school was harder than real life. By sixteen, he had turned a desperate need to stand out into a business venture, reaping all the rewards he craved-until the rewards almost cost him everything. In Wild Dogs, Christos shares the personal story that became an urban legend. Relatable and inspiring, this chronicle contains lessons for everyone who has made a mistake and wants to right the wrongs in their life. Whether you're a current student or a graduate of the tumultuous teenage years, you'll learn the power of redemption, the importance of friendships, and the value of working with the system instead of against it. This entertaining and insightful coming-of-age story will provide you with a perspective you didn't know you needed and show you that life is a journey you can't take too seriously.
Download or read book Wild Dog Dreaming written by Deborah Bird Rose and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth's systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom questions of extinction are up-close and very personal, Rose develops a mode of exposition that is dialogical, philosophical, and open-ended. An inspiration for Rose--and a touchstone throughout her book--is the endangered dingo of Australia. The dingo is not the first animal to face extinction, but its story is particularly disturbing because the threat to its future is being actively engineered by humans. The brazenness with which the dingo is being wiped out sheds valuable, and chilling, light on the likely fate of countless other animal and plant species. "People save what they love," observed Michael Soul , the great conservation biologist. We must ask whether we, as humans, are capable of loving--and therefore capable of caring for--the animals and plants that are disappearing in a cascade of extinctions. Wild Dog Dreaming engages this question, and the result is a bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire.
Download or read book Solo the Story of an African Wild Dog written by Hugo van Lawick and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1974 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Running Wild written by John McNutt and published by Smithsonian Inst Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at wild dogs that roam the African savanna, and their social behavior, hunting techniques, and how they raise their young
Download or read book Africa s Wild Dogs written by Jocelin Kagan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are roughly 6,600 wild dogs left in Africa yet they have cast such a spell on top wildlife photographer and naturalist Jocelin Kagan that she is determined to help save them. If left to their own devices, they are more than capable of thriving, as this sumptuous photographic natural history shows. Jocelin has called in world experts to add their latest findings about these resourceful, graceful and highly skilled family groups. Nomadic predators whose territories range thousands of kilometres, they hunt co-operatively, preying on small herbivores. Non-confrontational, they form complex bonds as this book reveals. Now restricted to small populations and threatened by some shoot-to-kill policies, habitat fragmentation, diseases from domestic dogs, climate change and snares, as well as natural predation from hyenas and lions, Africa's wild dogs will be supported by all the royalties from this book.
Download or read book Wild Dog written by Mary Hoffman and published by Steck-Vaughn. This book was released on 1987 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs describe the behavior and habitats of wild dogs.
Download or read book The Story of Junior written by Charles Basel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about our dog named Junior. We lived on a mountaintop rain forest in Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. He was born to a pack of indigenous wild dogs that we had adopted. He was the runt of the litter. We didnt expect him to live because he was so frail. We nursed him separately. He grew to be the largest of the dogs in the pack. He continued to live with the dog pack in the rain forest. His was strong, with a very sensitive, gentle nature. When he was about five years old, we left Puerto Rico to return to the United States. We decided to take him and another dog, not from the pack, with us. Junior never had a collar on him. He had never been in a car or a house. This is the same dog that has left Puerto Rico on an airplane and is traveling around the United States. This is his story. He came from the rain forest of the Caribbean to the highways of the United States.
Download or read book Wild Dog Sinister and savage psychological thriller written by Serge Joncour and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PRIX LANDERNEAU DES LECTEURS 2018 Described as 'eerie and sensual' by The Guardian, Wild Dog tells the story of a young couple who discover dark secrets in the remote French countryside. 'Reads like a modern fairy tale' New York Journal of Books Franck and Lise, a French couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot to get away from the stresses of modern life. In this remote corner of the world, there is no phone signal. A mysterious dog emerges, looking for a new master. Ghosts of a dark past run wild in these hills, where a German lion tamer took refuge in the First World War … Franck and Lise are confronted with nature at its most brutal. And they are about to discover that man and beast have more in common than they think. A literary sensation in France, Wild Dog is a dark, menacing tale of isolation, human nature and the infinite savagery of the wild.
Download or read book Wild Dogs written by Jennifer W. Sheldon and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Dogs: The Natural History of the Nondomestic Canidae presents a comprehensive, current natural history of the nondomestic dog species. In this book, a prodigious amount of previously uncollected information is presented in a straightforward form. The organization of the book is alphabetical by genus, and, within each genus, alphabetically by Linnean species name. In some cases, very little is known about a species. In other cases, the amount of available information is enormous, and has been distilled to summary form. The volume is intended as a straightforward assemblage of material. It points the way toward, but is not intended to provide, a synthetic or theoretical big picture. The book is intended as a general reference work. Biologists, wildlife managers, mammalogists, conservationists, students, and carnivore specialists will find here information assembled nowhere else. Over 600 sources are included in the bibliography, so the book also serves as an entry to the literature for those seeking more technical or specialized knowledge. Naturalists and outdoorsmen will also enjoy discovering the particulars of familiar and unfamiliar canid species.
Download or read book Wolves and Other Wild Dogs written by Mary E. Reid and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions and answers explore the world of wild dogs, with an emphasis on wolves.
Download or read book My Best Book of Wolves and Wild Dogs written by Christiane Gunzi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to wolves and wild dogs offers young readers an insight into the stealthy world of these highly intelligent hunters. The text and illustrations show wolves and wild dogs hunting in North America, golden jackals scavenging on rubbish in southern Europe, dingos roaming the Australian outback and African wild dogs tirelessly tracking their pray across the Savanna.
Download or read book Wild Dogs written by Michael Trant and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners.Still coming to terms with his wife's death - and the part he played in it - the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Altair, from certain execution.Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Altair's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. His main opponent is Chase Hunter, a kangaroo hunter with bush skills as wily and sharp as his own.As the old dogger and roo-shooter go head to head, Gabe will need all his cunning to come out of this alive...
Download or read book Of Wild Dogs written by Jane Taylor and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something nasty is coming out of the woodwork at the Museum ... and in the lonely bushveld, it's not only Nature that's red in tooth and claw. This sparkling first novel by respected academic Jane Taylor is a whodunnit with local flavour and postmodern flair. An artist at the Museum is dead: sharp-tongued Hannah, a former exile, whose passions turn out to be fatal. Three very different people must combine forces to uncover her murderer: Ewan Christopher, Hannah's former lover and a British journalist, out of his depth in the new South Africa; Inspector Cicero Matyobeni, the world-weary policeman from Khayelitsha, holding on to his compassion for dear life; and the beautiful but insecure pathologist, Helena de Villiers, who is becoming perhaps too personally involved ... The action moves from the Company Gardens of Cape Town to the wild grasslands of the Limpopo Province, in a complex and clever plot, full of red herrings and puns, and peopled by academics, chiefs, corrupt businessmen, sangomas, ex-security policemen, car-guards and a Greek goddess or two.
