The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs - Couverture souple

Watson, Lyall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1861977719 ISBN 13 : 9781861977717

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

The Whole Hog is just that, an attempt to encompass everything that is known about all the pigs of the world. George Orwell was right. Pigs are unquestionably the farmyard animals most likely to succeed. But why, exactly? Science has been slow to pin down the source of their superiority. Pigs are dramatically different from their closest and more placid relatives, sheep, deer and cattle. During forty million years of evolution, they seem to have made a series of canny decisions, adapting to changing circumstances much as humans have - by becoming more versatile, more gregarious and more curious. Sixteen species of wild pigs now occupy every continent except Australia and Antarctica, filling in the environmental gaps by deploying a panoply of domestic and feral forms - pigs for all seasons. The Whole Hog is their story. The biologist Lyall Watson has tracked pigs in the wild, observed their resourceful and playful lives, deciphered their grunts and oinks - and is convinced pigs deserve new respect.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lyall Watson is a curious naturalist and author of more than twenty books, including Supernature, Lifetide, Lightning Bird and Jacobson's Organ. He divides his time between a farmhouse on the west coast of Ireland and a ranch house in the high desert of New Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861977719
• ISBN 13: 9781861977717
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible