- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Prologue
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part i The Hunt for Eden -
Chapter 1 The Wolf is at the Door-Who's Afraid? -
Chapter 2 The Shy Giant of the Forest -
Chapter 3 A Tropical Primate in Alaska -
Chapter 4 Emissaries of a Dying Epoch -
part ii The Meek and the Bold -
Chapter 5 Subarctic Shadows -
Chapter 6 To Know Thy Enemy -
Chapter 7 Among the Naive -
Chapter 8 A Tiger East of the Sun -
part iii A Search for Ice Age Relicts -
chapter 9 A Continent of Virgins and Recent Ghosts -
Chapter 10 On Being Caribou and Musk Ox -
Chapter 11 Islands of Ice and Innocence -
part iv The Predator's Gaze -
Chapter 12 Changing the Rules of Engagement -
Chapter 13 Nomads of the Gobi -
Chapter 14 The Silent Cats of Patagonia -
part v Making the Beast More Savage, or Less? -
Chapter 15 A Credibility Conundrum -
Chapter 16 Different Sides of the Darwinian Divide -
chapter 17 Of Fear and Culture - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Readings of Interest and Exploration
- Index
Emissaries of a Dying Epoch
Emissaries of a Dying Epoch
- Chapter:
- (p.68) Chapter 4 Emissaries of a Dying Epoch
- Source:
- The Better to Eat You With
- Author(s):
Joel Berger
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter describes the author's efforts to study bison interactions with wolves, focusing on three geographical areas—those with wolves, those without, and those where bison were once predator-free but now experienced predation. Options of the first sort were limited to northern Canada. The Yukon and Alberta each had about four to five thousand wolves; the Northwest Territories some ten thousand. Areas without wolves were plentiful south of Canada. Only Yellowstone and the Tetons offered the third scenario—bison that had been wolf-free but were so no longer.
Keywords: bison, wolves, predators, predation, Canada, Yukon, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yellowstone, Tetons
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Prologue
-
part i The Hunt for Eden -
Chapter 1 The Wolf is at the Door-Who's Afraid? -
Chapter 2 The Shy Giant of the Forest -
Chapter 3 A Tropical Primate in Alaska -
Chapter 4 Emissaries of a Dying Epoch -
part ii The Meek and the Bold -
Chapter 5 Subarctic Shadows -
Chapter 6 To Know Thy Enemy -
Chapter 7 Among the Naive -
Chapter 8 A Tiger East of the Sun -
part iii A Search for Ice Age Relicts -
chapter 9 A Continent of Virgins and Recent Ghosts -
Chapter 10 On Being Caribou and Musk Ox -
Chapter 11 Islands of Ice and Innocence -
part iv The Predator's Gaze -
Chapter 12 Changing the Rules of Engagement -
Chapter 13 Nomads of the Gobi -
Chapter 14 The Silent Cats of Patagonia -
part v Making the Beast More Savage, or Less? -
Chapter 15 A Credibility Conundrum -
Chapter 16 Different Sides of the Darwinian Divide -
chapter 17 Of Fear and Culture - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Readings of Interest and Exploration
- Index