we can speak to our children and grandchildren about. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong. This was an enjoyable book. Where the Wild Things Were is a must read book on species conservation. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Otherwise very good. For years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Most of the research described in this book was done in just the past 20 years.
Very little was understood about this subject until very recently. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Where the Wild Things Were is a non fiction book giving a satisfyingly comprehensive view on predator ecology. To convey these points clearly, Stolzenburg writes about various experiments in detail, such as the experiment done by Robert T. Paine, where Paine throws starfish into the sea to see how the organism’s primary prey, mussels, react. What happens when they are removed? What a poetic, eye-opening, delightfully conscious and at times, sobering scientific account of mankind's venturing abilities- abilities that often act as a double-edged sword! Magic and myth, getting real and standing up for what’s right, love and longing, growing up and falling in love. I have a feeling this has opened a can of worms, out of which will parade a host of other to-read nature/science books. Stolzenberg’s reporting and history on numerous vanishing apex predators and resulting overpopulation of prey is balanced and measured. The beginning half of the novel covers the history of how scientists from all walks of life compiled their knowledge together to prove that predators are paramount for the survival of ecosystems and, in the longIn the nonfiction novel, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, published in the year 2008, William Stolzenburg explains about how the lack of big predators like wolves and grizzly bears affects all ecosystems in a shocking way. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations And these are two of the many studies that come up-however they were presented with such depth that I felt like I was learning about them for the first time as new perspectives were brought to light. Devastating and fascinating, and shows how much we've unbalanced the world. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History That kind, is the sort wherein you are told with every paragraph, for a few hundred pages, that We Are All Doomed.I put off buying this book for a while, because of the title. Definitely not a typical read for me, but an interesting look at nature, ecology and the importance of predators.
Now there are beaver ponds again in Yellowstone. I put off buying this book for a while, because of the title. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. They were all well-written and compelling.There's one thing I've noticed that seems to run amok in nature-based books, and that's that they all seem to read like one giant scientific article. Killing a stunning number of mountain lions in a futile attempt to bolster desert bighorn sheep numbers is a policy that must end. The scientists that Stolzenburg profiles methodically and systematically demonstrate how the top predators directly relate to such things as river ecology, plant/seed distribution, and seemingly unrelated things like Lyme disease. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. The Sunday Times. Wolves do. Every chapter in this book is a mystery that is slowly answered. You can help the Grimm Wiki by expanding it or providing any additional information on it. This book is scary only if we do not do anything to stop the madness and lose these wonderful animals some of whom have been around much longer than ourselves. Examples provided include:3.5 stars. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators A very good book -- well written, interesting, and easily readable.
But I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was invested by the middle of the book. Could have benefitted from an editor pulling out the idiosyncrasies of an odd journalistic style. The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
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