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Sto caricando le informazioni... Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midstdi Catherine Reid
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"Catherine Reid left her hometown in western Massachusetts in the 1970s, when people were just beginning to talk about a new creature from the southwest sliding into New England via Ontario, a canid bigger than a coyote, not quite large enough to be a wolf. Back home after decades away and settling into an old farmhouse with her female partner, Reid writes, "A mixture of fear and fascination compel me to take up the hunt. I want to see a coyote, I want to know its story, I want to unravel the way it intersects my own." Her search for this outlaw species leads her to rich and remarkably controversial fieldwork; to a session with a coyote litter in captivity; and, eventually, to spine-tingling sightings in the wild." "Reid alerts us to the story of evolution in action unfolding under our very noses, the story of an animal that is a "mix of wolf and coyote, old and new, necessary and fierce and wily." As Reid's writing shows, the eastern coyote in its hundred-year migration from the western plains to New England has picked up wolf DNA and a little understood combination of coyote and wolf behaviors. The eastern coyote typically weighs considerably more than its western cousin: many are well over fifty pounds. The size of the eastern coyote and its ability to take such prey as deer as well as domestic dogs and cats have left some ecologists to wonder whether we'll call this animal living among us "coyote" or "wolf" in another twenty years." "Coyote rekindles our age-old fascination with coyote as trickster, coyote (as Mark Twain put it) as "living breathing allegory of Want." And it suggests, through a wealth of evidence, that we will all need to forge a brand-new relationship with this large, until recently unknown, and uncannily intelligent hunter in our midst."--Jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The book spent far too much time focusing on [a:Catherine Reid|461319|Catherine Reid|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] and why she wanted to see a coyote, than what the actual coyotes were like. While, yes, she was an interesting person and the symbolic value of an animal is a beautiful thing... I would have much preferred a more scientific or anthropological study of the animal in question. In short, I wanted this book to be to coyotes what [a:Barry Lopez|10262|Barry Lopez|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1319321209p2/10262.jpg]'s [b:Of Wolves and Men|743936|Of Wolves and Men|Barry Lopez|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347919044s/743936.jpg|730087] was to wolves.
This book did manage a fair bit, though. Though in a less interesting way than [b:Daily Coyote|3209492|The Daily Coyote Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming|Shreve Stockton|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1396743476s/3209492.jpg|3243068] did. [a:Catherine Reid|461319|Catherine Reid|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] did a good job of talking about the designation of Eastern Coyote as a species, and how wolves and coyotes have interbred to a degree in the past. She explained how they managed to carve out a niche and maintain it even in the territory of bigger better predators. I wish it had been a bigger bit of the book. ( )