Wild Wolves (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Kira Cassidy | knygos.lt

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A beautifully illustrated natural history of wild wolves

Despite facing near eradication in many places, gray wolves have evolved into an incredibly successful species, exhibiting wide variation in their personalities and physical features and sharing complex ties with humans. Wild Wolves takes readers inside the lives of these versatile creatures, blending stunning photography and the latest science with engaging stories about encounters with individual wolves. Written by a scientist with the groundbreaking Yellowstone Wolf Project, this is the essential illustrated natural history of wild wolves, covering everything from their inner lives and rich family ties to their hunting and feeding strategies, their parallel evolution with humankind, and their links to the domestic dog.

• Provides invaluable global perspective on wild wolves, from the American Northwest and Canada to Italy, Scandinavia, and China
• Illustrated throughout with superb color photos, many of them taken by the author
• Sheds light on the evolution of wolves, their behavior, the social structure of wolf packs, and the conservation and future of the species
• Features frequent “Wolf Stories” drawn from the author’s personal observations in the field