Marc Bekoff and Cara Lowe have a new book out. You can read the publishers blurb below. (Does this guy every sleep?)
cheers, Bill
Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe. 2007. Listening to Cougar, University of Oklahoma Press.Edited by Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe with a foreword by Jane Goodall, this spellbinding tribute to Puma concolor honors the big cat’s presence on the land and in our psyches. In some essays, the puma appears front and center: a lion leaps over Rick Bass’s feet, hurtles off a cliff in front of J. Frank Dobie, gazes at Julia Corbett when she opens her eyes after an outdoor meditation, emerges from the fog close enough for poet Gary Gildner touch. Marc Bekoff opens his car door for a dog that turns to be a lion. Other works evoke lions indirectly. Biologists describe aspects of cougar ecology, such as its rugged habitat and how males struggle to claim territory. Conservationists relate the political history of America’s greatest cat. Short stories and essays consider lions’ significance to people, reflecting on accidental encounters, dreams, Navajo beliefs, guided hunts, and how vital mountain lions are to people as symbols power and wildness. Marc Bekoff has published twenty books, including The Emotional Lives of Animals, and is a professor emeritus of ecology evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Writer and photographer Cara Blessley Lowe is author Spirit of the Rockies and co-founder of The Cougar Fund.
