Comments on: Book review – Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

By: Book review – Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:44:20 +0000

[…] might be familiar to readers from his earlier book on beavers that I reviewed back in 2018. Little did I know that Crossings was already gestating. The roots of […]

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By: Book review – Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 07 May 2021 10:20:39 +0000

[…] the accusations of oversimplification, and the power of a good story. Ben Goldfarb, in his book Eager, noted that it downplays the effect of beaver […]

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By: Book review – Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:31:43 +0000

[…] be applied to ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss around the globe (see e.g. my review of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter). Pauly has been duly credited with seeding the new discipline of historical ecology (see also […]

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By: Book review – The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man’s Best Friend | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:43:32 +0000

[…] There were a few other places where I raised my eyebrows. Sykes’s observation that the wolf is virtually absent from cave paintings is interesting. But his argument that “it is as if the taboo our ancestors felt about creating a human image also extended to the wolf” is not very convincing to me. Detractors could easily jump on this observation to argue that a more parsimonious explanation is that there was no wolf-human cooperation the way Sykes envisions. Similarly, he brings up the (in)famous story of the trophic cascades that resulted from wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park, a story that went viral with the George Monbiot-narrated YouTube clip. This is a hotly contested story that many consider an oversimplification (see also my review of Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma), with some pointing out that other animals are likely to be important contributors (e.g. beavers, see my review of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter). […]

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THE “MIGHTY WHITE OF YOU” BOOK REVIEW – Worth A Dam — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 14:55:31 +0000

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