Jackals, Golden Wolves, and Honey Badgers

Cunning, Courage, and Conflict with Humans
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-03-205908-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment

This book explores the fascinating and complex lives of the honey badger, the African jackals (black-backed and side-striped), African golden wolves, and Eurasian golden jackals. In recent years, interest in these creatures has grown exponentially, through wildlife documentaries and media clips showing the aggressive, fearless, and tenacious behaviour of the honey badger, with jackals often presented in a supporting role.

Written by renowned journalist and educator Keith Somerville, this accessible volume includes historical narratives, folklore, and contemporary accounts of human–wildlife relationships and conflicts. It traces the evolution of the species; their foraging and diet; the development of their relationships with humans; and their commensal, kleptocratic, and symbiotic relationships with other carnivores, raptors and birds. It also charts the recent expansion in European jackal numbers and ranges, now including as far west as the Netherlands and as far north as Finland.

Blending historical observations by non-scientists, colonial officials, administrators, and early conservationists with contemporary scientific accounts, it presents a new multidisciplinary approach that will interest researchers, scientists, and students in wildlife conservation, human–wildlife relations, zoology, biology, and environmental science.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Somerville, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Trockengebiete und Wüsten
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) Säugetiere (Mammalia)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Jackals and Golden Wolves 2. Origins and evolution of jackals and golden wolves 3. From the end of the Pleistocene to the start of the Common Era (CE) 4. Jackals and humans in Africa in the pre-colonial era 5. The jackals of Eurasia 6. Africa from colonisation to 1960 7. Black-backed jackals and related species in contemporary Africa 8. Honey badgers: Dramatis Personae 9. Origins, evolution and history of the honey badger 10. Honey Badgers in the contemporary world

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Somerville is a Member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, UK, where he is a professor at the Centre for Journalism. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and a Member of the IUCN CEESP/SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.