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200 14$aThe jaguar's shadow$b[electronic resource] $esearching for a mythic cat /$fRichard Mahler
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (368 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tOne. "God Almighty, That's a Jaguar!" -- $tTwo. "It Pays Us Again and Again" -- $tThree. "Among All Big Cats, We Know Least About Them" -- $tFour. "We All Felt Really Blessed" -- $tFive. "Well Drawn and Unmistakable" -- $tSix. "The Model for How to Live" -- $tSeven. "Jaguars Possess the Power of God" -- $tEight. "Blood of the Valiant" -- $tNine. "He Believes He Is a Jaguar" -- $tTen. "There It Is; I'm Going to Shoot It" -- $tEleven. "Cows Are More Important Than Cats" -- $tTwelve. "We Just Stopped Seeing Them" -- $tThirteen. "To Ensure Our Namesake Is Protected" -- $tFourteen. "Siga el Pisto" -- $tFifteen. "Living in the Same Place It Always Has" -- $tSixteen. "Pretty Well Hunted Out" -- $tSeventeen. "These Animals Could Become Wonderful Teachers" -- $tEighteen. "It's Good if It's Dead" -- $tNineteen. "A Flagship Species for Conservation" -- $tTwenty. "The Mother Liquor from Which We Have Come" -- $tTwenty-one. "To See One at All Is a Lifetime Experience" -- $tSources -- $tSaving and Studying Jaguars -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex
330   $aWhen 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. 
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