Richard Jones

Call of Nature

The Secret Life of Dung

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Produktbeschreibung

Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of natureâ s ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start of a race against the clock as a multitude of dung-feeders and scavengers consume this rich food source.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pelagic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 303
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781784271053
• ISBN-10: 1784271055
• Artikelnr.: 44891140

Autorenporträt

By Richard Jones

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction – what is dung?
2 Cleanliness is next to fastidiousness – the human obsession with sewage
3 Waste not – dung as a human resource
4 It’s worth fighting over – dung as a valuable ecological resource
5 Dung communities – interactions and conflicts
6 The evolution of dung feeding – where did it all begin?
7 A closer look – who lives in dung?
8 Cross section of a dung pat – a slice of coprophagous life
9 The ageing process – time line of a dung pat
10 Dung problems – the end of world ordure as we know it
11 Dung types – an identification guide
12 Dung inhabitants and dung feeders – a rogues’ gallery
13 Dung is a four-letter word – a scatological dictionary
References
Index