The rare and endangered Chinese alligator has long held a prominent place in Chinese culture and mythology. Here John Thorbjarnarson and Xiaoming Wang, who have been at the forefront of efforts to conserve these remarkable creatures, provide comprehensive details about the biology, behavior, history, and cultural and conservation significance of the animal thought to be the basis of the Chinese dragon legend.
Though more than 10,000 Chinese alligators live in zoos and breeding facilities, just a few hundred still exist in the wild. Much of their natural habitat has been lost to human development, leaving wild Chinese alligators clinging to small areas where the Yangtze River meets the Pacific Ocean.
Thorbjarnarson and Wang recount how and why the species declined to the point where it is perhaps the most threatened of all crocodilians, discuss ongoing conservation works, and project what the future is likely to bring for the Chinese alligator.
Their scientific synthesis sits in stark contrast to the alligators' unique relationship with Chinese culture, where folklore views it as a water deity related to dragons.Illustrated throughout and featuring the most up-to-date biological information available, this volume is a complete overview of the Chinese alligator, a conservation and cultural icon.
173,54 zł
Diving beetles are fast becoming important models for aquatic ecology, world biogeography, population ecology, and animal sexual evolution and,...697,77 zł
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at...199,75 zł
Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths--and...185,16 zł
A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third...189,53 zł
This concise introduction offers students and researchers an overview of the discipline that connects genetics and evolution. Addressing the...303,01 zł
97,99 zł
The Great Game, 1856-1907 presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth...218,82 zł
This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic...153,29 zł
Scheitle, M. Alper Yalcinkaya198,56 zł
72,47 zł
Opinie i recenzje użytkowników
Dodaj opinie lub recenzję dla Chinese alligator. Twój komentarz zostanie wyświetlony po moderacji.