The well-dressed ape : a natural history of myself / Hannah Holmes.
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TextPublication details: New York : Random House, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 351 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781400065417 (alk. paper)
- 1400065410 (alk. paper)
- 612 HOL 22nd
- QP38 .H666 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-331) and index.
Quick as a cricket : physical description -- Crafty as a coyote : the brain -- Blind as a bat : perception -- Free as a bird : range -- A dog in the manger : territoriality -- Hungry as a wolf : diet -- Loose as a goose : reproduction -- Busy as a beaver : behavior -- Chatty as a magpie : communication -- Tough as a boiled owl : predators -- A bull in a china shop : ecosystem impacts.
Explores how the human animal--the eponymous well-dressed ape--fits into the natural world, even as we humans change that world in both constructive and destructive ways.
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