George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life, London, Penguin, 2014.
Virginia Morell, Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, Brecon, Old Street Publishing, 2013.
George Page, Inside the Animal Mind, New York, Broadway Books, 2001.
David Rothenberg, Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution, London, Bloomsbury, 2011.
2. Badger
People
Burt and Meg, of course
Dr Chris Newman, WildCRU, University of Oxford
Derek Gow, Upcott Grange Farm
Hugh Warwick
Mark West, Indicknowle Farm
Many of the volunteers at Wytham Woods, Oxford
Books
Patrick Barkham, Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain’s Most Enigmatic Animal, London, Granta, 2013.
Michael Clark, Badgers, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Whittet, 2010.
Cynan Jones, The Dig, London, Granta, 2014.
Daniel Heath Justice, Badger, London, Reaktion, 2015.
Ernest Neal, The Badger, London, Collins, 1969.
Tim Roper, Badger, London, Collins, 2010.
Article
V. E. Sidorovich, I. I. Rotenko and D. A. Krasko, ‘Badger (Meles meles) Spatial Structure and Diet in an Area of Low Earthworm Biomass and High Predator Risk,’ Annales Zoologici Fennici, vol. 48, 2011, pp. 1–16.
3. Otter
People
Nigel Phillips, Somerset Wildlife Trust
Ione Willcock, Exmoor National Park Authority
Daphne Neville
Simon, James, Richard and Wendy Wyburn, Staghunters’ Inn, Brendon, Exmoor
Books
Daniel Allen, Otter, London, Reaktion, 2010.
Paul Chanin and Guy Troughton, Otters, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Whittet, 2013.
Miriam Darlington, Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter, London, Granta, 2012.
Hans Kruuk, Otters: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water, London, Longmans, 1960.
———, The Rocks Remain, London, Longmans, 1963.
———, Raven Seek Thy Brother, London, Longmans, 1969.
James Williams, The Otter, Ludlow, Shropshire, Merlin Unwin, 2010.
Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter, London, G. P. Putnam, 1927.
4. Fox
People
Professor David Macdonald, WildCRU, University of Oxford
The Joint Masters at the time of the Coniston Foxhounds, the Blencathra Foxhounds, the Lunesdale Foxhounds, the Melbreak Foxhounds, the Pennine Foxhounds, the Dumfriesshire Foxhounds, the South Shropshire Foxhounds and (though they don’t hunt foxes) the Ecclesfield Beagles, the Shropshire Beagles and the Trinity Foot Beagles
Several sheep farmers in the High Peak, Derbyshire
Roger and Doreen Westmoreland
Malcolm and Pip Chisholm
Mike Smith
Mervyn Vickery
Books
‘BB’ [Denys Watkins-Pitchford], Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox, London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1938.
Stephen Harris, Urban Foxes, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Whittet, 2001.
J. David Henry, Red Fox: The Cat-like Canine, Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1996.
H. G. Lloyd, The Red Fox, London, Batsford, 1980.
David Macdonald, Running with the Fox, London, Harper Collins, 1989.
Martin Wallen, Fox, London, Reaktion, 2006.
5. Red Deer
People
Everyone listed here hates the bitchy chauvinism of the Highland lodge which is described in the chapter, and no one here is guilty of it.
Dr John Fletcher, Reedie Hill Deer Farm, Auchtermuchty
Richard Eales, Exmoor National Park Authority
David Greenwood, Joint Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds
The Joint Masters at the time of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, the Quantock Staghounds and the Tiverton Staghounds
Many stalkers and ghillies across the Scottish Highlands
Duff and Phylla Hart-Davies
David Lyon
Katy Stewart-Smith
Dr Chris Thouless, Save the Elephants
Dr Murray Corke, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
Professor Peter Clegg, School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool
Professor Roger Smith, Royal Veterinary College
Professor Christine Nicol, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol
Dr Liz Paul, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol
Dr Jo Edgar, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol
Matthew Price
Farlap Bloodhounds
Books, Chapters and Reports
P. Bateson, The Behavioural and Physiological Effects of Culling Red Deer, report to the National Trust, London, 1997.
Patrick Chalmers, Mine Eyes to the Hills: An Anthology of the Highland Forest, London, A. C. Black, 1931.
John Fletcher, Deer, London, Reaktion, 2013.
J. W. Fortescue, The Story of a Red Deer, London, Sportsman’s Press, 1897.
R. C. Harris, T. R. Helliwell, W. Shingleton, N. Stickland and J. R. J. Naylor, The Physiological Response of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) to Prolonged Exercise Undertaken During Hunting, Newmarket, R&W Publications, 1999.
Duff Hart-Davies, Monarchs of the Glen: A History of Deer Stalking in the Scottish Highlands, London, Jonathan Cape, 1978.
———, Among the Deer, Wykey, Shropshire, Quiller, 2011.
Richard Jeffries, Red Deer, London, Longman, Green, 1884.
Jochen Langbein and Rory Putman, ‘Studies of English Red Deer Populations Subject to Hunting-to-Hounds’, in Victoria J. Taylor and Nigel Dunstone (eds), The Exploitation of Mammal Populations, London, Chapman & Hall, 1996.
Richard Prior, Deer Watch, Wykey, Shropshire, Swan Hill, 2007.
Henry Williamson, ‘Stumberleap’, in The Old Stag, London, G. P. Putnam, 1926.
Articles
J. L. Edgar, C. J. Nicol, C. C. A. Clark and E. S. Paul, ‘Measuring Empathic Responses in Animals’, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol. 138, 2012, pp. 182–93.
J. Langbein, ‘The Ranging Behaviour, Habitat-Use and Impact of Deer in Oak Woods and Heather Moors on Exmoor’, Deer, vol. 10, 1997, pp. 516–21.
L. H. Thomas and W. R. Allen, ‘A Veterinary Opinion on Hunting with Hounds’, www.vet-wildlifemanagement.org.uk/images/stories/item-images/pdf/VetOpinion.pdf.
6. Swift
People
Professor Tim Birkhead, University of Sheffield
Professor Susanne Akesson, Lund University
Dr Andrew Gosler, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford
Professor Yossi Leshem, Tel Aviv University
Amnonn Hahn
Shira Twersky-Cassell
All at the International Common Swift Seminars, particularly Ulrich Tigges, Chris Mason and Gillian Westray
Books
Phil Chantler and Gerald Driessens, Swifts: A Guide to the Swifts and Tree-Swifts of the World, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, Pica, 2000.
Alan Garner, Boneland, London, Fourth Estate, 2012.
David Lack, Swifts in a Tower, London, Methuen, 1956.
Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature, London, Icon, 2011.
———, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals, London, Arrow, 2000.
Article
S. Akesson, R. Klaassen, J. Holmgren, J. W. Fox and A. Hedenstrom, ‘Migration Routes and Strategies in a Highly Aerial Migrant, the Common Swift, Apus apus, Revealed by Light-Level Geolocators’, PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 7, 2012, p. e41195.
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