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American Bison A Natural History

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ISBN-10: 0520240626

ISBN-13: 9780520240629

Edition: 2002

Authors: Dale F. Lott, Harry W. Greene

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American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has studied the buffalo for many years, relates what is known about this iconic animal's life in the wild and its troubled history with humans. Written with unusual grace and verve, 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. We become Lott's companions in the…    
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Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/10/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 245
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880

Foreword
Preface
Relationships, Relationships
Bull to Bull and Cow to Bull
Cow to Cow
Cow to Calf
The Machinery of a Bison's Life
Bison Athletics
Digestion: Grass to Gas and Chips
Temperature Control
Whence they Came Forth, and How Much they Multiplied
Ancestors and Relatives
How Many? The Bison Population in Primitive America
The Bison's Neighborhood
The Central Grassland: Where Buffalo Roam When They're at Home
The Bison's Neighbors
Wolves and Bison: Myths and Realities
Buffalo Birds
Diseases and Parasites
Pronghorn
Prairie Dogs
Badgers
Coyotes
Grizzlies
Ferrets
Human and Buffalo
Close Encounters of the Buffalo Kind
To Kill a Bison
Bison Numbers Before the Great Slaughter
Where Have All the Bison Gone?
Attitudes
Conservation: Then and Now
A Great Plains Park
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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