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The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops. Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of American urban life, here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.

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Urban animals --- Draft horses --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- Heavy horses --- Draft animals --- Horses --- History

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Even as growing cities and towns pave acres of landscape, some bird species have adapted and thrived. How has this come about?Welcome to Subirdia presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of our increasingly developed world. In this fascinating and optimistic book, John Marzluff reveals how our own actions affect the birds and animals that live in our cities and towns, and he provides ten specific strategies everyone can use to make human environments friendlier for our natural neighbors. Over many years of research and fieldwork, Marzluff and student assistants have closely followed the lives of thousands of tagged birds seeking food, mates, and shelter in cities and surrounding areas. From tiny Pacific wrens to grand pileated woodpeckers, diverse species now compatibly share human surroundings. By practicing careful stewardship with the biological riches in our cities and towns, Marzluff explains, we can foster a new relationship between humans and other living creatures-one that honors and enhances our mutual destiny.

Bird watching --- Birds --- Bird watchers --- Urban animals. --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- Birders (Observers) --- Hobbyists --- Naturalists --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Birding (Bird watching) --- Birdwatching --- Watching birds --- Wildlife watching --- Habitat.

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Entomology --- Insect pests --- Urban fauna --- Congresses --- Control --- -Insect pests --- -Urban animals --- -City animals --- City fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- Destructive insects --- Economic entomology --- Entomology, Economic --- Injurious insects --- Insects, Injurious and beneficial --- Arthropod pests --- Insects --- Veterinary entomology --- Zoology --- -Congresses --- Urban animals --- Congresses. --- City animals --- Control&delete&

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As natural habitat continues to be lost and the world steadily becomes more urbanized, biologists are increasingly studying the effect this has on wildlife. Birds are particularly good model systems since their life history, behaviour, and physiology are especially influenced by directly measurable environmental factors such as light and sound pollution. It is therefore relatively easy to compare urban individuals and populations with their rural counterparts. This accessible textfocuses on the behavioural and physiological mechanisms which facilitate adaptation and on the evolutionary process

Birds --- Urban animals --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Urbanization --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Vertebrates --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Ornithology --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- Ecophysiology --- Environmental aspects --- Behavior --- Adaptation