The Rise of Wolf 8
Greystone Books,Canada (Verlag)
978-1-77164-521-8 (ISBN)
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“The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves.” —Washington Post
“[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings.” —Marc Bekoff, Psychology Today
Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995.
This is the incredible true story of one of those wolves.
Wolf 8 struggles at first—he is smaller than the other pups, and often bullied—but soon he bonds with an alpha female whose mate was shot. An unusually young alpha male, barely a teenager in human years, Wolf 8 rises to the occasion, hunting skillfully, and even defending his family from the wolf who killed his father. But soon he faces a new opponent: his adopted son, who mates with a violent alpha female. Can Wolf 8 protect his valley without harming his protégé?
Authored by a renowned wolf researcher and gifted storyteller, The Rise of Wolf 8 marks the beginning of The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone series, which will transform our view of wolves forever.
RICK MCINTYRE has spent more than fifty years watching wolves in America’s national parks, twenty-five of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings and educated the public about the park’s most famous wolves. He has spoken about the Yellowstone wolves with 60 Minutes, NPR, and CBC, and he is profiled extensively in Nate Blakeslee’s American Wolf and in international publications. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana. ROBERT REDFORD—actor, director, and producer—has been a passionate art and environmental activist since the early 1970s. He has been an advocate for climate change awareness, clean energy, and habitat protection for over forty years.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Forgetting: Why You Won't Remember the Contents of This Book-Thereby Retaining the Most Important Information
Chapter 2 Learning: Why We Are Bad at Rote Learning, but Better at Understanding the World
Chapter 3 Memory: Why a False Memory Is Better Than None at All
Chapter 4 Blackout: Why We Choke under Pressure and the Secret Formula for Fending off Stage Fright
Chapter 5 Time: Why We Always Misjudge It-Thereby Forging Valuable Memories
Chapter 6 Boredom: Why We Have Trouble Switching Ourselves off-and How Daydreams Evoke the Muse
Chapter 7 Distraction: Why We Are so Flighty and Which Distractions Can Lead to More Creativity
Chapter 8 Mathematics: Why the Brain Calculates Best without Numbers
Chapter 9 Decisions: Why We Risk Too Much-and yet Still Choose Wisely
Chapter 10 Selection: Why Choosing Is Akin to Torture-Though We Still Manage to Select the Right Option
Chapter 11 Pigeonholing: How Prejudices Can Help Us, How They Can Harm Us-and How to Avoid Stereotypical Pitfalls
Chapter 12 Motivation: How Our Inner Critic Limits Us-and How We Can Inspire Others
Chapter 13 Creativity: Why We Can't Be Innovative at the Push of a Button-and yet We Always Have New Thoughts
Chapter 14 Perfectionism: Why We Need Mistakes in Order to Improve
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.12.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone Series |
| Vorwort | Robert Redford |
| Zusatzinfo | Color photographs, 1 map |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77164-521-0 / 1771645210 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77164-521-8 / 9781771645218 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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