Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Author’s Note
Prologue: Walking Among Giants
One: The Leading, Bleeding Edge of Human-Bear Relations
Two: Keep Calm and Carry Bear Spray
Three: Charismatic Megafauna
Four: “A Most Tremendous Looking Animal”
Five: The Island of Behemoth Bruins
Six: A Tale of Two Bear Parks
Seven: Tracks of the Craighead Brothers
Eight:
Ursus arctos
on Campus
Nine: Trouble with Taquka’aq
Ten: Binos and Big Ol’ Boars
Eleven: The Chonkiest of the Chonky
Twelve: Devils or Deities?
Thirteen: The Ursine Paparazzi
Fourteen: Dancing with the Bear
Fifteen: Into the Sanctuary
Sixteen: From Conflict to Coexistence
Epilogue: A Future with Bears
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
About the Author
Guide
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