The well-dressed ape : a natural history of myself / Hannah Holmes.

  • Holmes, Hannah, 1963-
Date:
[2008], ©2008
  • Books

About this work

Description

Explores how the human animal--the eponymous well-dressed ape--fits into the natural world, even as we humans change that world in both constructive and destructive ways.

Publication/Creation

New York : Random House, [2008], ©2008.

Physical description

xii, 351 pages ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-331) and index.

Contents

Quick as a cricket : physical description -- Crafty as a coyote : the brain -- Blind as a bat : perception -- Free as a bird : range -- A dog in the manger : territoriality -- Hungry as a wolf : diet -- Loose as a goose : reproduction -- Busy as a beaver : behavior -- Chatty as a magpie : communication -- Tough as a boiled owl : predators -- A bull in a china shop : ecosystem impacts.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    QT104 2008H66w
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781400065417
  • 1400065410