The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns
From Mammoth on the Menu to the Benefits of Moose Drool
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Description de l’éditeur
Spending time in nature can raise some serious questions. After contemplating your own mortality, you may start to wonder: Why don’t deer noses freeze in the winter? What does mammoth taste like? Do fish feel pain? These are important questions, and Robert M. Zink has the answers.
Bringing together the common and the enigmatic, The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns includes over seventy three-minute essays in which Zink responds to the queries that have yet to cross your mind. Drawing on his zoological background, Zink condenses the latest scientific discoveries and delivers useful, entertaining information on the great outdoors. Can a sheep’s horns be too big? Was the Labrador duck a hybrid? Why did I miss that clay target? A large section on deer covers topics ranging from deer birth control backfiring, new information on Chronic Wasting Disease, supplemental feeding, and deer genetics. Other essays explore land, aquatic animals, and humanity’s relationship with nature, thus making this book of wild science an essential for any outdoors person.
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Zink's enjoyable follow-up to 2014's The Three-Minute Outdoorsman: Wild Science from Magnetic Deer to Mumbling Carp takes readers on an eclectic tour through various aspects of nature. Zink, a conservation biologist and animal ecologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, delves into dense scientific studies on sometimes obscure topics and, in a series of brief essays, translates their insights into layperson's language. Throughout, Zink displays a penchant for catchy chapter titles. "If You Are What You Eat, and What You Eat Stinks, Do Your Friends Say Something?" looks at a little-loved species vultures and the positive role they play in the environment. "Never Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story about Cecil" recalls the 2015 controversy about a lion in Zimbabwe killed by a Minnesota dentist, with Zink opining that, contrary to the views of many, "the hunter did nothing wrong." These discussions, and many others in the book, prove intriguing. Unfortunately, some of the entries, such as the one on the microbial biosphere, "where the microbial equivalents of predators, omnivores, and herbivores live fast-paced lives," are less captivating. However, they are occasional exceptions in an otherwise intriguing book filled with scientific curiosities.
