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Natural History
Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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But the most old-fashioned research topic of all - an idea Western culture had known since the time of Aristotle as "the balance of nature," the presence of a dynamic equilibrium in the natural world - began to push ecological sicence in the direction of understanding the role of predators. The Biological Survey's policies (the federal predator control agency) assumed the European fold position: predators were entirely disposable, and the banishment of wolves and cougards and coyotes from Americ
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― Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
― Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
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From the time the bison slaughter commenced in the 1820s, it took little more than half a century to clear the Great Plains of that ancient population of animals, which during spans of good weather must have approached 25 to 30 million animals. One effect of that species cleansing was to open up the great grasslands to domesticated animals.
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― Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
― Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
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