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Author Barilla, James, 1967-

Title My backyard jungle : the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it / James Barilla
Published New Haven [CT] : Yale University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 363 pages) : illustrations
Contents Certified -- Zoos without bars -- Little Eden -- The "monkey menace" -- The night visitor -- Backyard bruins -- Notes from a twenty-first-century rat catcher -- The bees of Brooklyn -- Zoopolis
Summary Explores the nature of human and animal coexistence in cities around the world where the two populations often share habitats, while chronicling the author's own experience transforming his backyard into a wildlife habitat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-353) and index
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Subject Urban ecology (Biology)
Habitat (Ecology)
Animals and civilization.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
urban environments.
NATURE -- Ecology.
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Animals and civilization
Habitat (Ecology)
Urban ecology (Biology)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012040298
ISBN 9780300185997
0300185995
9781299463660
1299463665