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Cats in Australia
Author : Chris Dickman
Release : 2019-06-01
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Cats in Australia written by Chris Dickman. This book was released on 2019-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, cats are loved as pets or are kept or tolerated for their role in controlling some animal pests. But cats, both pets and feral, also kill many native animals and this toll can be enormous. Cats have been remarkably successful in Australia, spreading pervasively across the continent and many islands, occurring in all environments, and proving to be adept and adaptable hunters. A large proportion of Australia’s distinctive fauna is threatened and recent research highlights the significant role that cats play in the decline and extinction of native species. Cats in Australia brings this research together, documenting the extent to which cats have subverted, and are continuing to subvert, Australia’s biodiversity. But the book does much more than spotlight the impacts of cats on Australian nature. It describes the origins of cats and their global spread, their long-standing and varying relationship with people, their global impacts and their ecology. It also seeks to describe the challenge of managing cats, and the options available to constrain their impacts.
... The Domestic Cat
Author : Edward Howe Forbush
Release : 1916
Genre : Birds
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Download or read book ... The Domestic Cat written by Edward Howe Forbush. This book was released on 1916. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Cat Island
Author : Donald Hankin
Release : 2019-05-29
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Download or read book Cat Island written by Donald Hankin. This book was released on 2019-05-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The merchant ship Laconia sailing from London to the Virginia Colony is lost at sea. Only nine cats survive. They are washed up on a tropical island only to find they are not alone. There are dogs and cats from a previous human habitation who avoid each other and especially the evil Mousadonians, 9" tall mice, who enjoy terrorizing their neighbors. The arrival of the ship wrecked cats alters the dynamic of island life leading to an unlikely alliance.
Classical Cats
Author : Donald W. Engels
Release : 2018-10-03
Genre : History
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Download or read book Classical Cats written by Donald W. Engels. This book was released on 2018-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive book on classical cats. The cat has played a significant role in history from the earliest times. Well known is its role in the religion and art of ancient Egypt, no less than its association with witchcraft in the Middle Ages. But when did the cat become a domestic companion and worker as well? There has been much debate about the position of the cat in ancient Greece and Rome. Artistic representations are sometimes ambiguous, and its role as a mouse-catcher seems often to have been carried out by weasels. Yet other evidence clearly suggests that the cat was as important to Greeks and Romans as it is to many modern people. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the evidence for cats in Greece and Rome, and of their functions and representations in art. Donald Engels draws on authors from Aesop to Aristotle; on vase-painting, inscriptions and the plastic arts; and on a thorough knowledge of zoology of the cat. He also sets the ancient evidence in the wider context of the Egyptian period that preceded it, as well as the views of the Church fathers who ushered antiquity into the Middle Ages.
