03889nam 2200625Ia 450 991082109930332120240418003742.01-282-35298-997866123529800-300-15593-X10.12987/9780300155938(CKB)2430000000010726(StDuBDS)AH23050085(SSID)ssj0000300679(PQKBManifestationID)11218994(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300679(PQKBWorkID)10252066(PQKB)11759071(MiAaPQ)EBC3420596(DE-B1597)486080(OCoLC)586098211(DE-B1597)9780300155938(Au-PeEL)EBL3420596(CaPaEBR)ebr10348493(CaONFJC)MIL235298(OCoLC)923594852(EXLCZ)99243000000001072620081210d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe jaguar's shadow[electronic resource] searching for a mythic cat /Richard Mahler1st ed.New Haven Yale University Press20091 online resource (368 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-12225-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- One. "God Almighty, That's a Jaguar!" -- Two. "It Pays Us Again and Again" -- Three. "Among All Big Cats, We Know Least About Them" -- Four. "We All Felt Really Blessed" -- Five. "Well Drawn and Unmistakable" -- Six. "The Model for How to Live" -- Seven. "Jaguars Possess the Power of God" -- Eight. "Blood of the Valiant" -- Nine. "He Believes He Is a Jaguar" -- Ten. "There It Is; I'm Going to Shoot It" -- Eleven. "Cows Are More Important Than Cats" -- Twelve. "We Just Stopped Seeing Them" -- Thirteen. "To Ensure Our Namesake Is Protected" -- Fourteen. "Siga el Pisto" -- Fifteen. "Living in the Same Place It Always Has" -- Sixteen. "Pretty Well Hunted Out" -- Seventeen. "These Animals Could Become Wonderful Teachers" -- Eighteen. "It's Good if It's Dead" -- Nineteen. "A Flagship Species for Conservation" -- Twenty. "The Mother Liquor from Which We Have Come" -- Twenty-one. "To See One at All Is a Lifetime Experience" -- Sources -- Saving and Studying Jaguars -- Acknowledgments -- IndexWhen the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend-yet verifiably real. Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as varmints or as icons, trophies or gods? He is drawn from border badlands south to Panama's rain forest along a route where the fate of nearly all wildlife now rests in human hands. Mahler's odyssey introduces him to unrepentant poachers, pragmatic ranchers, midnight drug-runners, ardent conservationists, trance-induced shamans, hopeful biologists, stodgy bureaucrats, academic philosophers, macho hunters, and gentle Maya Indians. Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his search-and the enduring symbolism of the jaguar. JaguarPantheraJaguar.Panthera.599.75/5Mahler Richard1649419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821099303321The jaguar's shadow3998143UNINA