{"product_id":"listening-to-cougar-marc-bekoff-9780870819360","title":"Listening to Cougar","description":"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 to touch. Marc Bekoff opens his car door for a dog that turns out 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 of power and wildness.\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Rick Bass, Marc Bekoff, Janay Brun, Julia B. Corbett, Deanna Dawn, J. Frank Dobie, Suzanne Duarte, Steve Edwards, Joan Fox, Gary Gildner, Wendy Keefover-Ring, Ted Kerasote, Christina Kohlruss, Barry Lopez, BK Loren, Cara Blessley Lowe, Steve Pavlik, David Stoner, and Linda Sweanor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Bekoff\u003c\/b\u003e has published twenty books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Emotional Lives of Animals, \u003c\/i\u003e and is a professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Writer and photographer \u003cb\u003eCara Blessley Lowe\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eSpirit of the Rockies\u003c\/i\u003e and co-founder of The Cougar Fund.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBK Loren, in \u003ci\u003eListening to Cougar\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e \"If the lion, in all its dark, nocturnal otherness, in all its light, internal sameness, does not exist for future generations, if we destroy its habitat, or call open season on it, what could we possibly find to replace it? It is precisely because we fear large predators that we need them. They hold within them so many things that we have lost, or are on the verge of losing, personally and collectively, permanently and forever. If we sacrifice the fear, we also sacrifice the strength, the wildness, the beauty, the awe.\" \u003cb\u003eForeword by Jane Goodall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Bekoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870819364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870819360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.52w x 0.65d","brand":"Marc Bekoff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926698590463,"sku":"9780870819360","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_39375ede-eb3d-4999-98bb-37c3dd974365.jpg?v=1681084518","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/listening-to-cougar-marc-bekoff-9780870819360","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}