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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Wild Animals of North America
Edward William Nelson and Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
420 pages~8 hr 23 min read156 chapters$4.99
Edward Nelson surveys the great mammals of North America, from buffalo and antelope to the vanishing herds thinned by wanton slaughter. His account blends natural history with an early conservationist's alarm. Rich and sobering. Meet the continent's wild mammals and the threats they once faced.
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156 chapters
- 1WILD ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA INTIMATE STUDIES OF BIG AND LITTLE CREATURES OF THE MAMMAL KINGDOM BY EDWARD W. NELSON Natural-Color Portraits from Paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes Track Sketches by Ernest Thompson Seton PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY WASHINGTON, D. C. U. S. A.
- 2INTRODUCTION
- 3INDEX TO WILD ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA
- 4The Larger North American Mammals
- 5TRAINS HELD UP BY BUFFALO
- 6ANTELOPES EVERYWHERE
- 7WANTON WASTE OF WILD LIFE
- 8SPECIES COME AND SPECIES GO
- 9VAST NATURAL MUSEUMS OF EXTINCT ANIMAL LIFE
- 10DID MAN LIVE THEN?
- 11CAMELS AND HORSES ORIGINATED IN NORTH AMERICA
- 12FEWER LARGE MAMMALS IN THE TROPICS
- 13DESTROYING THE IRRESTORABLE
- 14SAVING OUR WILD LIFE
- 15OPOSSUM, VIRGINIA OPOSSUM (Didelphis virginiana and its subspecies)
- 16RACCOON (Procyon lotor and its subspecies)
- 17CANADA LYNX (Lynx canadensis)
- 18BOBCAT, OR BAY LYNX (Lynx ruffus and its subspecies)
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