Large Animals and Wide Horizons - Couverture rigide

Name: Large Animals and Wide Horizons
Author: Laws, Richard M.
ISBN: 9781857568646

Laws, Richard M.

9781857568646: Large Animals and Wide Horizons

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ISBN 10 : 1857568648 ISBN 13 : 9781857568646

Editeur : Janus Publishing Co, 2017

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While today the thought of wholesale slaughter of animals like whales and elephants generally causes a sense of disgust, it was not that long ago that seals and whales were hunted commercially. This is a book about a man who, while present at the scene of such killing, was able to do biological research that helped to lead to the management of populations while the hunting went on, and later to the hunting ceasing almost completely, certainly in the case of whales. Pioneering methods of counting populations of animals in the wild and extrapolating what their numbers would be in years to come, he was able to make suggestions as to future practice, although when politics got in the way unfortunately his work sometimes came to naught. When reading this book it is necessary to understand in the 21st century that this was a time of change in the way that the wild was perceived, and the nature reserves we now take for granted were only just coming into existence. The hardships endured by the men working in the field in the Antarctic at this time is graphically described and the reader is given a real feel for what life was like there. The author s ability to paint verbal pictures of all the countries he found himself working in is a delight.

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� propos de l'auteur

Born in Northumberland in 1926, Richard Maitland Laws CBE attended Dame Allan s School in Newcastle and then St Catharine s College, Cambridge. His career path took him to Antarctica where he was engaged in research into the biology and populations of first seals and then whales, and then to Uganda in East Africa, where he did similar work on hippos and elephants. Returning to Antarctica he was the Director of the British Antarctic Survey and was at South Georgia at the time of the Falklands War. On his return to the UK he became Master of St Edmund s College, Cambridge, and continued to be an active member of organisations and working groups, and was a prolific publisher of articles, books and reviews throughout his life.

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