The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns
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The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns

From Mammoth on the Menu to the Benefits of Moose Drool

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns

From Mammoth on the Menu to the Benefits of Moose Drool

About this book

Spending time in nature can raise some serious questions. After contemplating your own mortality, you may start to wonder: Why don't deer noses freeze in the winter? What does mammoth taste like? Do fish feel pain?These are important questions, and Robert M. Zink has the answers. Bringing together the common and the enigmatic, The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns includes over seventy three-minute essays in which Zink responds to the queries that have yet to cross your mind. Drawing on his zoological background, Zink condenses the latest scientific discoveries and delivers useful, entertaining information on the great outdoors. Can a sheep's horns be too big? Was the Labrador duck a hybrid? Why did I miss that clay target?Alarge section on deer covers topics ranging from deer birth control backfiring, new information on Chronic Wasting Disease, supplemental feeding, and deer genetics. Other essays explore land, aquatic animals, andhumanity's relationship with nature, thus making thisbook of wild sciencean essential for any outdoors person.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Preface
  8. Part 1
  9. 1. Chronic Wasting Disease, Deer, and You
  10. 2. The “Common Ground” among Genetics, CWD, and Bedbugs
  11. 3. Deer Teeth and CWD
  12. 4. CWD and Prions
  13. 5. Let’s Expose a Bunch of People to CWD and See What Happens
  14. 6. What Does per Capita Cheese Consumption and the Number of People Who Died by Becoming Tangled in Bedsheets Have to Do with CWD and Scrapie?
  15. 7. Cats and Deer
  16. 8. Adaptations of Deer Evolving through Time
  17. 9. Things Deer Do
  18. 10. Why Don’t Deer Noses Freeze in the Winter?
  19. 11. Deer as Long-Term Survivors
  20. 12. Deer and Optometrists
  21. 13. Deer Numbers amid Changing Landscapes versus Our Memories
  22. 14. Good Morning, Deer, Did You Sleep Well?
  23. 15. Deer Parasites for Fifty Dollars
  24. 16. Should Deer Use Bug Spray?
  25. 17. Fawn Hide and Seek
  26. 18. Now You See Them (Deer), Now You Don’t
  27. 19. Birth Control to Manage Deer Backfires
  28. Part 2
  29. 20. Can a Sheep’s Horns Be Too Big?
  30. 21. Moose Drool
  31. 22. The Worlds We Don’t See
  32. 23. Stripes of the Zebra
  33. 24. The Answer, My Friend, Is Peeing in the Wind?
  34. 25. From Billions to Martha
  35. 26. Rewilding
  36. 27. Was the Labrador Duck Real?
  37. 28. Looking Like a Duck Decoy
  38. 29. How Long Have Man and Dog Been Best Friends?
  39. 30. My Dog Does What in Which Direction?
  40. 31. Wildlife with Weather Stations
  41. 32. What’s Wrong with Fewer Large Carnivores?
  42. 33. You Are What You Eat, So Be Careful or You Might Be Goosed
  43. 34. Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
  44. 35. Nebraska Cranes, Now and Then
  45. 36. Turkey Talk
  46. 37. What Does Mammoth Taste Like?
  47. 38. Why Are Pronghorns So Fast?
  48. 39. Old Man River Doesn’t Mean Much to a Duck
  49. 40. Phantom Roads and Birds
  50. 41. How About a Road Trip to Mars?
  51. 42. If You Are What You Eat, and What You Eat Stinks, Do Your Friends Say Something?
  52. 43. A Long-Term Perspective on Ruffed Grouse
  53. Part 3
  54. 44. Cod Almighty
  55. 45. Do Fish Eat Cormorants?
  56. 46. Do Fish Feel Pain?
  57. 47. When Catfish Are Hungry, Watch Your Step
  58. 48. The Science behind Catch-and-Release
  59. 49. Catch and Release Effects on Northern Pike
  60. 50. What Happens to Northern Pike That Swim off with a Lure in Their Mouths?
  61. 51. Too Many Big Fish in a Lake Can Be a Bad Sign
  62. 52. Can Fisheries Science Inform Fisheries Management?
  63. 53. The Resurrection Ecology of Water Fleas Tells Us about Changes in a Minnesota Lake
  64. 54. How Do You Say 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?
  65. 55. Gape and Suck
  66. Part 4
  67. 56. Alternative Facts and Managing Game and Fish Populations
  68. 57. No Food, No Clean Water, No Wildlife Habitat and Noise, Air, Soil, and Water Pollution
  69. 58. Big Mammals Gone—Who or What Done It?
  70. 59. Government Agencies Need to Step Up against Cats Outdoors
  71. 60. Pascal’s Wager and Climate Change Skepticism
  72. 61. A Scientific Program Dedicated to Eradicating Feral Cats: Eradicat!
  73. 62. How Exactly Does “Science” Work?
  74. Part 5
  75. 63. Never Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story about Cecil
  76. 64. Hunting for Meat
  77. 65. What Do Conceal-and-Carry Permits Have in Common with Four-Wheel Drive?
  78. 66. How Could over Four Hundred Pellets Possibly Miss a Clay Pigeon?
  79. 67. I Wouldn’t Kill an Animal, but I’m Not a Vegetarian
  80. 68. On Being a Vegetarian
  81. 69. Killing Feral Hogs Is Bad for the Environment—Huh?
  82. 70. Maybe It’s Where You Put the Arrow, Not What You Put at the End of It
  83. 71. Is Lead Dead in Hunting?
  84. 72. Getting the Lead Out, Take 2
  85. 73. Putting the “Safe” in Your Gun’s Safety
  86. 74. Rattling for Success
  87. 75. Keeping Old Dogs in the Loop
  88. Postscript
  89. About Robert M. Zink