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| Preface | |
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| Turning the other cheek | |
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| Conundrum | |
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| What is a carnivore? | |
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| Carnivore groups in the modern world | |
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| Vulnerability | |
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| Carnivore society: hermits and communes | |
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| Social systems, groups and territories | |
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| Collaborators in the hunt | |
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| Society | |
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| Resources and territories | |
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| The quarry of the hunter | |
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| Carnivore diet and hunting behaviour | |
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| Diet | |
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| Hunting behaviour | |
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| Surplus killing and caching | |
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| Man the hunted | |
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| Maneaters | |
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| Tiger | |
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| Leopard | |
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| Lion | |
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| Cougar | |
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| Spotted hyaena | |
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| Bears | |
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| Wolf | |
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| Domestic and captive animals | |
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| Predation on people: a synthesis | |
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| Competitors and carriers | |
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| Predation on game and livestock | |
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| In pursuit of game | |
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| Killing livestock | |
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| Transmitting disease to people and livestock | |
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| Other damage from carnivores | |
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| History of a conflict | |
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| Carnivores and the first hominids | |
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| Predation on early mankind | |
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| Early carnivores | |
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| Hunting and scavenging in early hominid evolution | |
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| Carnivore extinctions and Homo | |
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| What is the use? | |
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| Carnivores as food, for medicine, perfumes, sport, tourism and the fur trade | |
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| Carnivores as food | |
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| Medicinal uses and scent | |
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| Targets for sport | |
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| Carnivores and ecotourism | |
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| Fur trade | |
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| Wolves with human souls: pets | |
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| Dogs and cats as working animals and companions | |
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| Pets in past and present | |
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| Trained to work | |
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| Dogs and cats as companions | |
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| Why carnivores, why dogs and cats? | |
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| Pets and conservation | |
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| Carnivores and neighbours: effects on prey | |
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| Effects on other species, and introduced exotics | |
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| 'Balance' between predators and prey | |
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| Predation in communities | |
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| Limited numbers of carnivores | |
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| Artificial immigration: introducing predators | |
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| Crying wolf: anti-predator behaviour | |
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| Anti-carnivore behaviour of animals and man | |
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| Anti-predator behaviour of birds | |
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| Anti-predator behaviour of hoofed mammals | |
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| Responses to predator competitors | |
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| Anti-predator behaviour of mankind | |
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| Carnivores in culture | |
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| Carnivores in fable, religion, art and heraldry | |
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| Carnivores in classical literature | |
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| Witchcraft | |
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| Religion | |
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| Heraldry | |
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| Carnivores in pictures | |
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| The future | |
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| Effects of humans on carnivores: urbanization and survival | |
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| Urban dwellers | |
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| Carnivores under threat | |
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| Epilogue: Changing views of carnivores, individuality and conservation | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |