My backyard jungle : the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it /

Barilla, James, 1967-

My backyard jungle : the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it / James Barilla. - New Haven [CT] : Yale University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (x, 363 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.



9780300185997




Urban ecology (Biology)
Habitat (Ecology)
Animals and civilization.
Urban ecology (Sociology)


Electronic Books.

QH541 / .M933 2013