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.