American bison : a natural history / Dale F. Lott ; with a foreword by Harry W. Greene.
"American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Ra...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2002]
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| Series: | Organisms and environments ;
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Relationships, relationships
- 1. Bull to bull and cow to bull
- 2. Cow to cow
- 3. Cow to calf
- pt. 2. The machinery of a bison's life
- 4. Bison athletics
- 5. Digestion : grass to gas and chips
- 6. Temperature control
- pt. 3. Whence they came forth, and how much they multiplied
- 7. Ancestors and relatives
- 8. How many : the bison population in primitive America
- pt. 4. The bison's neighborhood
- 9. The central grassland : where buffalo roam when they're at home
- pt. 5. The bison's neighbors
- 10. Wolves and bison : myths and realities
- 11. Buffalo birds
- 12. Diseases and parasites
- 13. Pronghorn
- 14. Prairie dogs
- 15. Badgers
- 16. Coyotes
- 17. Grizzlies
- 18. Ferrets
- pt. 6. Human and buffalo
- 19. Close encounters of the buffalo kind
- 20. To kill a bison - 21. Bison numbers before the great slaughter
- 22. Where have all the bison gone
- 23. Attitudes
- 24. Conservation : then and now
- 25. A Great Plains park.