| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Organisms and environments ; 6
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Organisms and environments ; 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221). |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Relationships, relationships -- 1. Bull to bull and cow to bull -- 2. Cow to cow -- 3. Cow to calf -- pt. 2. Machinery of a bison's life -- 4. Bison athletics -- 5. Digestion : grass to gas and chips -- 6. Temperature control -- pt. 3. Whence they came forth, and how much they multiplied -- 7. Ancestors and relatives -- 8. How many : the bison population in primitive America -- pt. 4. Bison's neighborhood -- 9. Central grassland : where buffalo roam when they're at home -- pt. 5. Bison's neighbors -- 10. Wolves and bison : myths and realities -- 11. Buffalo birds -- 12. Diseases and parasites -- 13. Pronghorn -- 14. Prairie dogs -- 15. Badgers -- 16. Coyotes -- 17. Grizzlies -- 18. Ferrets -- pt. 6. Human and buffalo -- 19. Close encounters of the buffalo kind -- 20. To kill a bison -- 21. Bison numbers before the great slaughter -- 22. Where have all the bison gone -- 23. Attitudes -- 24. Conservation : then and now -- 25. A Great Plains park. |
| Summary |
American bison takes us on a journey into the bison's past and shares a compelling vision for its future, offering along the way a valuable introduction to North American prairie ecology. Lott explores the social life and physiology of the bison, sharing stories about its impressive physical prowess and fascinating relationships. Describing the entire grassland community in which the bison live, he writes about the wolves, pronghorn, prairie dogs, grizzly bears, and other animals and plants, detailing the interdependent relationships among these inhabitants of a lost landscape. Lott also traces the long and dramatic relationship between the bison and Native Americans, and gives a surprising look at the history of the hide hunts that delivered the coup de grace to the already dwindling bison population in a few short years. Lott also dismantles many of the myths we have created about these ways of life, and about the bison in particular, to reveal the animal itself: ruminating, reproducing, and rutting in its full glory. His portrait of the bison ultimately becomes a plea to conserve its wildness and an eloquent meditation on the importance of the wild in our lives. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American bison.
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American bison. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lott, Dale F. American bison. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520233387 (DLC) 2002000243 (OCoLC)48803709 |
| ISBN |
9780520930742 (electronic book) |
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0520930746 (electronic book) |
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1417522682 (electronic book) |
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9781417522682 (electronic book) |
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9780520233386 |
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0520233387 |
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0520240626 |
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9780520240629 |
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