Coyote America

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Finalist for thePEN E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation Wall Street JournalLegends don t come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn t just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands down Coyote America is the illuminating five million year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis It is one of the great epics of our time. Read Coyote America – kino-fada.fr If you weren t aware that the American War On Coyotes has been going on for longer than Vietnam, hadcasualties than the Civil War, and was evenfutile than the War On Drugs, you re in for a surprise.I must admit to a certain fondness for coyotes When I lived in Texas, I loved hearing their howls at dusk, their shapes framed against stark treeless hills and tall houses I think they re gorgeous creatures, as far removed from the Looney Toons Coyote as a bean sprout from a redwood Whi If you weren t aware that the American War On Coyotes has been going on for longer than Vietnam, hadcasualties than the Civil War, and was evenfutile than the War On Drugs, you re in for a surprise.I must admit to a certain fondness for coyotes When I lived in Texas, I loved hearing their howls at dusk, their shapes framed against stark treeless hills and tall houses I think they re gorgeous creatures, as far removed from the Looney Toons Coyote ...Dan Flores writes in Coyote America I have borne witness to certain truth about coyotes as neighbors you do not see them as much as hear them I live in an area where there is a large coyote population, I hardly ever see a coyote but I hear them all the time Dan Flores has written a richly detailed look at the America conservation movement and its attitude toward the coyote for the last century and half A native of North America, the coyote has a rich history, which today continues to g...I have to give this book five stars for the impact it had on my understanding of the human species drive to destroy what it doesn t understand or appreciate The book functions as both an ode to the intelligence and beauty of the coyote but also as a mournful dirge to America s deeply dysfunctional relationship to nature It s unbelievable that the country still kills 500,000 coyotes a year, despite the awareness that such wholesale slaughter causes coyote families to produce larger and larger I have to give this book five stars for the impact it had on my understanding of the human species drive to destroy what it doesn t understand or appreciate The book functions as both an ode to the intelligence and beauty of the coyote but also as a mournful dirge to America s deeply dysfunctional relationship to nature It s unbelievable that the country still kills 500,000 coyotes a year, despite the awareness that such wholesale slaughter causes coyote families to produce larger and larger litters That is only the current body count in a history that easily wins them the title of most persecuted large mammal in American history One of the reasons I picked up this book is the absolute hysteria generated by urban coyote sightings in my smal...Dan Flores has done something fascinating in this book, rehabilitating the image of a persecuted carnivore lowest on our opinion roster of animals, including cockroaches and rats He makes the case that coyotes should be America s national avatar, displacing the bison or buffalo Extremely clever, adaptable, and pioneering, the coyote was designated a principal deity by American Indians North America s oldest deity, responsible for creating all of North America.Flores tells us that coyotes live Dan Flores has done something fascinating in this book, rehabilitating the image of a persecuted carnivore lowest on our opinion roster of animals, including cockroaches and rats He makes the case that coyotes should be America s national avatar, displacing the bison or buffalo Extremely clever, adaptable, and pioneering, the coyote was designated a principal deity by American Indians North America s oldest deity, responsible for creating all of North America.Flores tells us that coyotes live within a couple miles of us at all times now even those of us in major metropolitan areas Coyotes are cosmopolitan, and ha...To me Konrad Lorenz s essay The Taming of the Shrew in his collection King Solomon s Ring is a wondrous example of great field biology writing In it, Lorenz delights in describing the behavior of the water shrew, and he does so with meticulous, loving detail, and through this tiny lens, focused on one tiny animal, I can t help but be struck with wonder about how beautiful and complicated the natural world is.In contrast, Coyote America is filled with breathless anecdote and extends in every d To me Konrad Lorenz s essay The Taming of the Shrew in his collection King Solomon s Ring is a wondrous example of great field biology writing In it, Lorenz delights in describing the behavior of the water shrew, and he does so with meticulous, loving detail, and through this tiny lens, focused on one tiny animal, I can t help but be struck with wonder about how beautiful and complicated the natural world is.In contrast, Coyote America is filled with breathless anecdote and extends in every direction, introducing topics only tangentially related to coyotes As a result it felt shallow to...Not a super fast read, but short enough that I wanted a bitI mean, it had lots of history, biology, philosophy but it could have used just a coupleCoyote Trickster tales It did have plenty of statements that make me feel outraged at how much taxpayer money has been spent murdering coyotes in a futile attempt to eradicate them, when the truth is that their population would stabilize at a reasonable level if they didn t have to over breed and over migrate to try to find a safe pla Not a super fast read, but short enough that I wanted a bitI mean, it had lots of history, biology, philosophy but it could have used just a coupleCoyote Trickster tales It did have plenty of statements that make me feel outraged at how much taxpayer money has been spent murdering ...Coyote America is a super interesting book that examines the science, history and cultural markers of our American original, the coyote They look like smaller wolves, but they re smarter And like the author, I thought they were a southwestern desert animal So I was shocked when I first saw one in Ohio in the early 90 s I spent hours pouring over field guides, and was wavering between a fox and some kind of a stray sheep dog I finally went to a ranger, and they pulled out a picture.I was Coyote America is a super interesting book that examines the science, history and cultural markers of our American original, the coyote They look like smaller wolves, but they re smarter And like the author, I thought they were a southwestern desert animal So I was shocked when I first saw one in Ohio in the early 90 s I spent hours pouring over field guides, and was waveri...Numerous authors have already delved into the cultural and scientific research on the coyote, a uniquely American animal Flores lists these works in his extensive bibliography and mentions some of them in the text of his book In COYOTE AMERICA he documents a long history of destructive and inhumane government policies driven by that familiar triumvirate fear, greed and hubris The conquest of the west has a familiar ring Paired alongside it was the war on predators The metaphors roll o Numerous authors have already delved into the cultural and scientific research on the coyote, a uniquely American animal Flores lists these works in his extensive bibliography and mentions some of them in the text of his book In COYOTE AMERICA he documents a long history of destructive and inhumane government policies driven by that familiar triumvirate fear, greed and hubris The conquest of the west has a familiar ring Paired alongside it was the war on predators The metaphors roll off the tongue so thoughtlessly It s disheartening to realize that only 125 years after Lewis and Clark saw their first wo...Forced to describe Coyote America in one phrase, I d call it a celebration of the resiliency of the underappreciated canine that has inhabited North America far longer than Europeans Though the book does begin with an appreciation via Native Americans, much of the book is basically a history of the coyote and the lack of appreciation of, and persecution of, the wolf s diminutive cousin Once mankind had essentially won the battle against wolves in the lower 48 states, we turned our attention an Forced to describe Coyote America in one phrase, I d call it a celebration of the resiliency of the underappreciated canine that has inhabited North America far longer than Europeans Though the book does begin with an appreciation via Native Americans, much of the book is basically a history of the coyote and the lack of appreciation of, and persecution of, the wolf s diminutive cousin Once mankind had essentially won the battle against wolves in the lower 48 states, we turned our attention and sights to the archpredator of our time via bounties and government agencies that have used everything from firearms to poison to helicopters to attempt to eradicate an animal that, for the longest time, we could not even claim to understand The coyote persevered by being perpetually elusive, ...Coyote deserves better.I like coyotes I like the animals I like the idea of them existing by their wiles in the shadow of humans I like the representations Speaking of wiles, I like Wile E Coyote I wanted to like this book But it just never added up.Flores was one of the scholars to bring environmental history into the academy, though he was never as famous as William Cronon or Donald Worster Broadly speaking, this book is an example of environmental history how humans have thought abo Coyote deserves better.I like coyotes I like the animals I like the ...

Coyote America
  • English
  • 12 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 271 pages
  • 0465052991
  • Dan Flores
  • Coyote America