Description |
xvi, 229 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Organisms and environments ; 6 |
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Organisms and environments ; 6.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index. |
Contents |
pt. 1. Relationships, relationships -- 1. Bull to bull and cow to bull -- 2. Cow to cow -- 3. Cow to calf -- pt. 2. The 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. The bison's neighborhood -- 9. The central grassland : where buffalo roam when they're at home -- pt. 5. The 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. |
Subject |
American bison.
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ISBN |
0520233387 cloth alkaline paper |
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