The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cultures and the beliefs of early civilizations on two continents. In An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar, big-cat expert Alan Rabinowitz shares his own personal journey to conserve a species that, despite its past resilience, is now on a slide toward extinction if something is not done to preserve the pathways it prowls through an ever-changing, ever-shifting landscape dominated by humans. Rabinowitz reveals how he learned from newly available genetic data that the jaguar was a single species connected genetically throughout its entire range from Mexico to Argentina, making it unique among all other large carnivores in the world. In a mix of personal discovery and scientific inquiry, he sweeps his readers deep into the realm of the jaguar, offering fascinating accounts from the field. Enhanced with maps, tables, and colour plates, An Indomitable Beast brings important new research to life for scientists, anthropologists, and animal lovers alike. This book is not only about jaguars, but also about tenacity and survival. From the jaguar we can learn better strategies for saving other species and also how to save ourselves when faced with immediate and long-term catastrophic changes to our environment.
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Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
Publication Date: 04 Aug 2015
Publisher: Island Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781597269971
About Alan Rabinowitz
Alan Rabinowitz one of the world's leading experts on big cats is cofounder and CEO of Panthera a nonprofit organization devoted to saving wild cat species. Previously Rabinowitz served for almost thirty years as executive director of the Science and Exploration Division for the Wildlife Conservation Society. The author of six previous books Rabinowitz has been profiled in numerous publications including the New York Times National Geographic Adventure Magazine Outside Magazine Scientific American Men's Fitness GEO Natural History and Audubon. He has been featured in television specials by the National Geographic Society and the BBC and most recently in an IMAX film about tigers in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh and India.