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The jaguar's shadow : searching for a mythic cat
- Title
- The jaguar's shadow : searching for a mythic cat / Richard Mahler.
- Author
- Mahler, Richard.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
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- Description
- xii, 359 p. : ill., maps, (some col.); 25 cm.
- Summary
- When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend - yet verifiably real. Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as varmints or as icons, trophies or gods? He is drawn from border badlands south to Panama's rain forest along a route where the fate of nearly all wildlife now rests in human hands. Mahler's odyssey introduces him to unrepentant poachers, pragmatic ranchers, midnight drug-runners, ardent conservationists, trance-induced shamans, hopeful biologists, stodgy bureaucrats, academic philosophers, macho hunters, and gentle Maya Indians. Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his search - and the enduring symbolism of the jaguar.
- Subject
- Jaguar
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-342) and index.
- Contents
- "God almighty, that's a jaguar!" -- "It pays us again and again" -- "Among all big cats, we know least about them" -- "We all felt really blessed" -- "Well drawn and unmistakable" -- "The model for how to live" -- "Jaguars possess the power of God" -- "Blood of the valiant" -- "He believes he is a jaguar" -- "There it is, I'm going to shoot it" -- "Cows are more important than cats" -- "We just stopped seeing them" -- "To ensure our namesake is protected" -- "Siga el Pisto" -- "Living in the same place it always has" -- "Pretty well hunted out" -- "These animals could become wonderful teachers" -- "It's good if it's dead" -- "A flagship species for conservation" -- "The mother liquor from which we have come" -- "To see one at all is a lifetime experience" -- Sources -- Saving and studying jaguars.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-4170
- ISBN
- 9780300122251 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 030012225X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008051628
- OCLC
- 282954025
- Author
- Mahler, Richard.
- Title
- The jaguar's shadow : searching for a mythic cat / Richard Mahler.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-342) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-4170