Among the Bears: Raising Orphan Cubs in the Wild - Softcover

Kilham, Benjamin; Gray, Ed

 
9780805073003: Among the Bears: Raising Orphan Cubs in the Wild
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0805073000 ISBN 13: 9780805073003
Verlag: Holt Paperbacks, 2003

Inhaltsangabe


In the spring of 1993, Benjamin Kilham, a naturalist who lives in the woodlands of New Hampshire, began raising a pair of orphaned wild black bears. The experience changed his life.

While spending thousands of hours with the cubs, Kilham discovered unknown facets of bear behavior that have radically revised our understanding of animal behavior. Now widely recognized for his contributions to wildlife science, Kilham reveals that bears are altruistic and cooperate with unrelated, even unknown individuals, while our closer relatives, the supposedly more highly evolved chimps, cooperate only within troops of recognizable members. Beyond the natural history, he introduces individual bears who become enthralling and memorable characters.

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Benjamin Kilham is a woodsman and naturalist who over the past twenty-five years has discovered and then field-tested a new, exciting wildlife biology. Ed Gray is a naturalist writer and founder of Gray's Sporting Journal. They both live in Lyme, New Hampshire.

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Excerpt from Among the Bears:

Because we had two females this time we needed names to distinguish them. We named one Curls for the curly hair on her forehead; the other, who was smaller, became Squirty. The boy we left at that—The Boy. Almost immediately they began to show not only their physically distinguishing marks, but their personalities as well. Within a month, while the cubs were still upstairs, The Boy began escaping from the pen and letting loose with a series of distress calls as soon as he found himself separated from his sisters, who would then try to join him. Already he was showing himself to be the explorer of the group.

One of the immediate differences I could see between raising these new cubs and the first two was that I could now recognize their behaviors as they developed. Whenever they were scared, either by a sound or a smell, they would "tree" to the highest pillow on the bed or on me if I were with them, all the way up to my head and shoulders. They suckled my ears and fingers and wrestled to bond with each other and with me. In my case they wrestled with my hand, but I knew what it meant. Even today—in her sixth year and at times well over two hundred pounds—when I meet her in the woods every spring, Squirty and I wrestle to get reaquainted.

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Verlag
Holt Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805073000
ISBN 13 
9780805073003
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1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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