Detail Call of The Wild; The Wolf Returns   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8816 (Dec. 2012), page 117-120. Topik: Wolves Hunting; Wildlife Preservation; Natural Habitat Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.75 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel After millennia spent exterminating them, humanity is protecting wolves. Numbers have risen again--and so have ancient resentments. Most man-made extinctions have been accidental--the result of over-hunting, or importing predators or diseases. Wolves are different. Through most of human history, killing them has been regarded as a public good. As soon as anything that looked like a state developed, it set about exterminating wolves.In England King Edgar imposed an annual tribute of 300 wolf skins on Idwal, king of Wales, in 960; monarchs made land grants on condition that the beneficiaries carried out wolf hunts; King Edward I employed a wolf-hunter-in-chief to clear central and western England of wolves. By the end of the 15th century they seem to have disappeared from England, though in Scotland they hung on a little longer: in 1563 Mary Queen of Scots had 2,000 Highlanders drive the woods of Atholl for a hunt that bagged 360 deer and five wolves. America's original settlers, then, had no previous experience of wolves. The dense lupine population in the forests along the eastern seaboard in the New World, for which the colonists' livestock was a walking buffet, made a tough life harder still. Towns set generous bounties for wolves. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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