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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David B. Croft , Ethel TobachPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.332kg ISBN: 9780275939083ISBN 10: 0275939081 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 30 August 1991 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Ethel Tobach Foreword--Tender Mercies: Amity and Antagonism between People and Animals by S.A. Barnett The Relationships Between People and Animals: An Australian Perspective by David B. Croft Black and White Totemism: Conservation, Animal Symbolism and Human Identification in Australia by John Morton Animal Rights and Aboriginal Concepts by David S. Bennett The Introduced Wild and Feral Mammals of Australia: Past and Present Relationships with Humans as Determinants of Their Status by Peter H. O'Brien Relationships Between People and Animals by Glenorchy McBride IndexReviewsAuthor InformationDavid B. Croft is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he teaches General Biology and Animal Behaviour. He graduated from Flinders University in South Australia with a University Medal and gained his PhD at the University of Cambridge in England. He has published numerous papers on the behaviour of species as diverse as Australian ant-lions and Javan leaf-eating monkeys. Croft has been the President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Ethel Tobach, PhD, Curator Emerita at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, is the series editor of Advances in Comparative Psychology, publication of the International Society for Comparative Psychology and the University of Calabria. This series stresses the responsibility of comparative psychology to the people and natural resources of the countries in which their biennial international conferences take place. The first volume dealt with this responsibility as it applied to Costa Rica. This second volume resulted from the joint meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and the International Society for Comparative Psychology. The third volume will be concerned with similar issues in Barbados. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |