Feral Cities : Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle.
Title:
Feral Cities : Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle.
Author:
Donovan, Tristan.
ISBN:
9781569760680
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Hot Tub Snakes: On the Trail of Rattlesnakes in Phoenix -- 2 Voodoo Chickens: Miami's Chicken, Snail, and Snake Invasions -- 3 The Great Sparrow Mystery: Fighting Starlings in Indianapolis and Saving Sparrows -- 4 Street Hunters: Living with Boars and Raccoons in Berlin -- 5 Romancing Coyotes: Looking for Coyotes in Chicago and Los Angeles -- 6 Thieves in the Temple: Monkey Trouble in Cape Town and Delhi -- 7 The Lion of Hollywood: Tracking Leopards in Mumbai and L.A.'s Cougar -- 8 Singing a Different Song: Hanging Out with the Parrots of Brooklyn -- 9 The Chicago Bird Massacre: Saving Migratory Birds in Downtown Chicago -- 10 Suburbia Crawling: Bug Hunting in Raleigh Homes -- 11 Tunnels of the Bloodsuckers: The Rats and Mosquitoes Lurking Under London -- 12 West Side Roaches: NYC Cockroach Investigations and Bakersfield Kit Foxes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Tristan Donovan is the author of Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World and Replay: The History of Video Games. His journalism has appeared in the Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Stuff, Eurogamer, the Big Issue, Community Care, and many other publications.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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