Robert M Zink

The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns

From Mammoth on the Menu to the Benefits of Moose Drool

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert M. Zink is a conservation biologist and animal ecologist in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of The Three-Minute Outdoorsman: Wild Science from Magnetic Deer to Mumbling Carp and a frequent contributor to Outdoor News. ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781496203618
• ISBN-10: 1496203615
• Artikelnr.: 52425922

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Zink is a conservation biologist and animal ecologist in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of The Three¿Minute Outdoorsman: Wild Science from Magnetic Deer to Mumbling Carp and a frequent contributor to Outdoor News.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures    
Preface    
Part 1. Stuff about Deer
1. Chronic Wasting Disease, Deer, and You    
2. The “Common Ground” among Genetics, CWD, and Bedbugs    
3. Deer Teeth and CWD    
4. CWD and Prions    
5. Let’s Expose a Bunch of People to CWD and See What Happens    
6. What Does per Capita Cheese Consumption and the Number of People Who
Died by Becoming Tangled in Bedsheets Have to Do with CWD and Scrapie?     
7. Cats and Deer: It Just Gets Worse    
8. Adaptations of Deer Evolving through Time    
9. Things Deer Do    
10. Why Don’t Deer Noses Freeze in the Winter?     
11. Deer as Long-Term Survivors    
12. Deer and Optometrists    
13. Deer Numbers amid Changing Landscapes versus Our Memories    
14. Good Morning, Deer, Did You Sleep Well?     
15. Deer Parasites for Fifty Dollars    
16. Should Deer Use Bug Spray?     
17. Fawn Hide and Seek    
18. Now You See Them (Deer), Now You Don’t    
19. Birth Control to Manage Deer Backfires    
Part 2. Nature Amazes on Land
20. Can a Sheep’s Horns Be Too Big?     
21. Moose Drool    
22. The Worlds We Don’t See: Mysophobes Beware    
23. Stripes of the Zebra    
24. The Answer, My Friend, Is Peeing in the Wind?     
25. From Billions to Martha    
26. Rewilding    
27. Was the Labrador Duck Real?     
28. Looking Like a Duck Decoy    
29. How Long Have Man and Dog Been Best Friends?     
30. My Dog Does What in Which Direction?     
31. Wildlife with Weather Stations    
32. What’s Wrong with Fewer Large Carnivores?     
33. You Are What You Eat, So Be Careful or You Might Be Goosed    
34. Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow    
35. Nebraska Cranes, Now and Then    
36. Turkey Talk    
37. What Does Mammoth Taste Like?     
38. Why Are Pronghorns So Fast?     
39. Old Man River Doesn’t Mean Much to a Duck    
40. Phantom Roads and Birds    
41. How About a Road Trip to Mars?     
42. If You Are What You Eat, and What You Eat Stinks, Do Your Friends Say
Something?     
43. A Long-Term Perspective on Ruffed Grouse    
Part 3. Nature Amazes in the Water
44. Cod Almighty    
45. Do Fish Eat Cormorants?     
46. Do Fish Feel Pain?     
47. When Catfish Are Hungry, Watch Your Step    
48. The Science behind Catch-and-Release    
49. Catch and Release Effects on Northern Pike    
50. What Happens to Northern Pike That Swim Off with a Lure in Their
Mouths?     
51. Too Many Big Fish in a Lake Can Be a Bad Sign    
52. Can Fisheries Science Inform Fisheries Management?     
53. The Resurrection Ecology of Water Fleas Tells Us about Changes in a
Minnesota Lake    
54. How Do You Say 1,,,,,,,,,,?     
55. Gape and Suck    
Part 4. Humans and Nature
56. Alternative Facts and Managing Game and Fish Populations    
57. No Food, No Clean Water, No Wildlife Habitat and Noise, Air, Soil, and
Water Pollution: What Is It?     
58. Big Mammals Gone—Who or What Done It?     
59. Government Agencies Need to Step Up against Cats Outdoors    
60. Pascal’s Wager and Climate Change Skepticism    
61. A Scientific Program Dedicated to Eradicating Feral Cats: Eradicat!   
 
62. How Exactly Does “Science” Work?     
Part 5. Stuff for Hunters
63. Never Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story about Cecil    
64. Hunting for Meat    
65. What Do Conceal-and-Carry Permits Have in Common with Four-Wheel Drive?
    
66. How Could over Four Hundred Pellets Possibly Miss a Clay Pigeon?     
67. I Wouldn’t Kill an Animal, but I’m Not a Vegetarian    
68. On Being a Vegetarian    
69. Killing Feral Hogs Is Bad for the Environment—Huh?     
70. Maybe It’s Where You Put the Arrow, Not What You Put at the End of It  
 
71. Is Lead Dead in Hunting?     
72. Getting the Lead Out, Take 2    
73. Putting the “Safe” in Your Gun’s Safety    
74. Rattling, for Success    
75. Keeping Old Dogs in the Loop    
Postscript: Perspectives and Parting Thoughts