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The Devil's Cormorant - A Natural History - PDF
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Pages: 360 pages
Publisher: University Press of New England (30 October 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1611682258
ISBN-13: 978-1611682250
Format: PDF
Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The Devils Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worlds most misunderstood waterfowl.
