American Fox and Fur Farmer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Fox and Fur Farmer write by . This book was released on 1921. American Fox and Fur Farmer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Fur Farmer Magazine
The Fur Farmer Magazine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fur Farmer Magazine write by . This book was released on 1925. The Fur Farmer Magazine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) write by Lee Alan Dugatkin. This book was released on 2019-04-14. How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs—they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken—imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to witness the process of domestication. This is the extraordinary, untold story of this remarkable undertaking. Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut’s fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with floppy ears, piebald spots, and curly tails. Along with these physical changes came genetic and behavioral changes, as well. The foxes were bred using selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became increasingly interested in human companionship. Trut has been there the whole time, and has been the lead scientist on this work since Belyaev’s death in 1985, and with Lee Dugatkin, biologist and science writer, she tells the story of the adventure, science, politics, and love behind it all. In How to Tame a Fox, Dugatkin and Trut take us inside this path-breaking experiment in the midst of the brutal winters of Siberia to reveal how scientific history is made and continues to be made today. To date, fifty-six generations of foxes have been domesticated, and we continue to learn significant lessons from them about the genetic and behavioral evolution of domesticated animals. How to Tame a Fox offers an incredible tale of scientists at work, while also celebrating the deep attachments that have brought humans and animals together throughout time.
Campesino a Campesino
Campesino a Campesino - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Campesino a Campesino write by Eric Holt-Giménez. This book was released on 2006. Campesino a Campesino available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Campesino a Campesino tells the inspiring story of a true grassroots movement: poor peasant farmers teaching one another how to protect their environment while still earning a living. The first book in English about the farmer-led sustainable agriculture movement in Latin America, Campesino a Campesino includes lots of first-person stories and commentary from the farmer-teachers, mixing personal accounts with detailed analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and ecological factors that galvanized the movement. Campesino farmer leading a farmer to farmer training session in Mexico by Eric Holt-GimenezMany years ago, author Eric Holt-Gim�nez was a volunteer trying to teach sustainable agriculture techniques in the dusty highlands of central Mexico, with little success. Near the end of his tenure, he invited a group of visiting Guatemalan farmers to teach a course in his village. What he saw was like nothing he had known. The Guatemalans used parables, stories, and humor to present agricultural improvement to their Mexican compadres as a logical outcome of clear thinking and compassion; love of farming, of family, of nature, and of community. Rather than try to convince the Mexicans of their innovations, they insisted they experiment new things on a small scale first to see how well they worked. And they saw themselves as students, respecting the Mexicans' deep, lifelong knowledge of their own particular land and climate. All they asked in return was that the Mexicans turn around and share their new knowledge with others--which they did. CAC campo3_photo by Food FirstThis exchange was typical of a grassroots movement called Campesino a Campesino, or Farmer to Farmer, which has grown up in southern Mexico and war-torn Central America over the last three decades. In the book Campesino a Campesino, Holt-Gim�nez writes the first history of the movement, describing the social, political, economic, and environmental circumstances that shape it. The voices and stories of dozens of farmers in the movement are captured, bringing to vivid life this hopeful story of peasant farmers helping one another to farm sustainably, protecting their land, their environment, and their families' future.
Silver Fox Farming in Eastern North America
Silver Fox Farming in Eastern North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Silver Fox Farming in Eastern North America write by Ned Dearborn. This book was released on 1915. Silver Fox Farming in Eastern North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pp. 34.
