The Badgers of Wytham Woods

A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution

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AvDavid Macdonald,Chris Newman

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The badgers of Wytham Woods (Oxford, UK) have been studied continuously and intensively by David Macdonald for almost 50 years (25 of them with his former student and co-author Chris Newman), generating a wealth of data pertaining to every facet of their ecology and evolution. Through a mix of accessible, highly readable prose and cutting-edge science, the authors weave a riveting scientific story of the lives of these intriguing creatures, highlighting the insights offered to science more broadly through badgers as a model system. They provide a paradigm - from population down to molecule - for a deeper understanding of mammalian behaviour, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. The real value of this long-term study is particularly apparent with current and globally relevant challenges such as climate change, disease epidemics, and senescence. This unique dataset enables us to examine these issues in a context that only a half-century experiment can reveal.The Badgers of Wytham Woods will appeal to a broad audience of professional academics (especially carnivore and mammalian biologists), researchers and students at all levels, governmental and non-governmental wildlife bodies, and to the natural historian fascinated by wild animals and the remarkable processes of nature they exemplify.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-05
Mått190 x 245 x 30 mm
Vikt1 259 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor592
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198893592

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Professor David Macdonald CBE has been Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University since founding it in 1986, and is also Senior Research Fellow in Wildlife Conservation at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He began research in Wytham Woods in 1972, and has been studying badgers since then. In 1986 he began the routine annual sampling of badgers which is the foundation of this book. A recent survey by BBCWildlife magazine listed him amongst the ten most influential living conservationists, and he has twice been awarded the Natural History Author of the Year.Chris Newman joined the Wildlife Conservation Unit at Oxford University in 1991, spending 15 years living on-site in the heart of Wytham Woods which gave him unprecedented access to the 300 badgers that shared his garden. In 2019 he moved to Novia Scotia to work as an independent ecological consultant.

Lord John Krebs of Wytham: ForewordPreface1: Setting the Scene: Births and Beginnings2: It's Tough at the Bottom3: Apprenticeships for Badger Society4: Setts, Society and Super-groups: The Geology of Social Behaviour5: The Sum of the Parts: Knowing One's Place in Badger Society6: Social Odours: The Perfume of Society7: Sex: How and Why, and with Whom?8: Social Behaviour in an Uncooperative Society9: Who Goes There: Friend or Foe?10: The Ecological Foundations to Badger Group-Living11: The Economics of Survival: Population Size, and Crashing through the Ceiling12: Weather: Actuarial Insights13: Weather: Badgers Adapt or Die14: The Game of Life15: In Sickness and in Health16: The Story of Badgers and TB: Perturbation and Beyond17: Genetic Mate Choice: Quality Matters18: Senescence, Telomeres, and Life-History Trade-Offs19: Of the Same Stripe, or Not: Exceptions that Prove Rules

The 19 chapters comprehensively address behavior, population ecology, and the effects of disease and weather on the European badger, and make appropriate comparisons with the other five genera of the world's badger species. During the study, life history data was recorded on over 1,800 individuals. Given the size of the study population and time depth of the study itself, there should be no surprise that such an enormous amount of information is presented in one volume.

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