Life Everlasting The Animal Way of Death

Name: Life Everlasting The Animal Way of Death
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ISBN: 9780544002265

ISBN-10: 0544002261

ISBN-13: 9780544002265

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bernd Heinrich

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From one of the finest naturalist/writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycleWhen a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at how the animal world renews itself? Heinrich focuses his wholly original gaze on the fascinating doings of creatures most of us would otherwise turn away from—field mouse burials conducted by…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.440

Bernd Heinrich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature, including One Manï¿½e(tm)s Owl, and Ravens in Winter. Bumblebee Economics was twice a nominee for the American Book Award in Science, and A Year in the Maine Woods won the 1995 Rutstrum Authorsï¿½e(tm) Award for Literary Excellence.



Introduction



Small to Large


Beetles That Bury Mice


Sendoff for a Deer


The Ultimate Recycler: Remaking the World



North to South


Northern Winter: For the Birds


The Vulture Crowd



Plant Undertakers


Trees of Life


Dung Eaters



Watery Deaths


Salmon Death-into-Life


Other Worlds



Changes


Metamorphosis into a New Life and Lives


Beliefs, Burials, and life Everlasting


Postscript


Acknowledgments


Further Reading


Index