The jaguar's shadow : searching for a mythic cat / Richard Mahler.
2009
QL737.C23 M245 2009eb
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Title
The jaguar's shadow : searching for a mythic cat / Richard Mahler.
Author
ISBN
9780300155938 (electronic bk.)
030015593X (electronic bk.)
9780300122251 (cloth ; alk. paper)
030012225X
1282352989
9781282352988
030015593X (electronic bk.)
9780300122251 (cloth ; alk. paper)
030012225X
1282352989
9781282352988
Imprint
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 359 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number
QL737.C23 M245 2009eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)586098211
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
"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"
Saving and studying jaguars.
"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"
Saving and studying jaguars.
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Print version: Mahler, Richard. Jaguar's shadow. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2009
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