Wanderers of Prairie and Desert

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The world's largest zoogeo-graphical region, the Holarctic, is notable for its immense tracts of desert and plain. For the animals of these parts life is a continual struggle not only against natural predators but also against extremes of heat and cold. This fourth volume of World of Wildlife illustrates the ingenious ways in which animals adapt to their inhospitable environment.
In the Sahara and the deserts of North America surviving animal species are remarkable for the mechanisms that enable them to procure enough food, and especially water, to remain alive.
The Asiatic steppe and the North American prairie have shaped the course of history ever since man discovered how to use the horse for conquest and colonisation. Until recently these rolling plains echoed to the thundering hooves of immense herds of buffaloes and wild horses. Today they are rare species protected in national parks. But although steppe and prairie are no longer the domain of these splendid animals, the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The world's largest zoogeo-graphical region, the Holarctic, is notable for its immense tracts of desert and plain. For the animals of these parts life is a continual struggle not only against natural predators but also against extremes of heat and cold. This fourth volume of World of Wildlife illustrates the ingenious ways in which animals adapt to their inhospitable environment.
In the Sahara and the deserts of North America surviving animal species are remarkable for the mechanisms that enable them to procure enough food, and especially water, to remain alive.
The Asiatic steppe and the North American prairie have shaped the course of history ever since man discovered how to use the horse for conquest and colonisation. Until recently these rolling plains echoed to the thundering hooves of immense herds of buffaloes and wild horses. Today they are rare species protected in national parks. But although steppe and prairie are no longer the domain of these splendid animals, the hardy survivors of such regions - predatory hawks and falcons, spectacular sage grouse, burrowing prairie dogs, howling coyotes, and speedy pronghorn antelopes - have withstood man's advance and offer naturahsts unique opportunities to fathom the mysteries of the wild.
Front cover: A group of North American bison. Relatively few now survive in special reserves {R. Kinne)
Endpapers: Antelope bucks fighting (^Leonard Lee Rue) Vissza