North American Moose / / Randolph Peterson.
Out of Siberia, across the narrow Bering Strait, from Alaska down into central North America, following ever widening pockets in the glaciers, came North America’s largest big-game mammal – the moose.The majestic moose is as much a part of the Canadian heritage as the dark spruce forests of the nort...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1955 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER TWO. TAXONOMY AND DISTRIBUTION
- CHAPTER THREE. PALAEONTOLOGICAL HISTORY
- CHAPTER FOUR. POST-GLACIAL DISPERSAL IN NORTH AMERICA
- CHAPTER FIVE. MOOSE IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA
- CHAPTER SIX. GENERAL POPULATION STATUS
- CHAPTER SEVEN. DISTRIBUTION AND STATUS OF MOOSE IN ONTARIO
- CHAPTER EIGHT. RATE OF REPRODUCTION
- CHAPTER NINE. GENERAL LIFE HISTORY
- CHAPTER TEN. GENERAL BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIVITIES
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. FOOD HABITS
- CHAPTER TWELVE. ANNOTATED LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL MOOSE FOOD PLANTS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. FOOD PLANTS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. HABIT AT STUDIES
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER ANIMALS
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. DISEASES, PARASITES, AND INSECT PESTS
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. ACCIDENTS
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. POPULATION STUDIES
- CHAPTER NINETEEN. MANAGEMENT
- APPENDIX A. A STUDY OF MANDIBULAR TOOTH-WEAR AS AN INDEX TO AGE OF MOOSE
- APPENDIX B. STUDIES OF MOOSE ANTLER DEVELOPMENT IN RELATION TO AGE
- LITERATURE CITED
- INDEX