New PDF release: Eagle (Animal)

By Janine Rogers

ISBN-10: 178023337X

ISBN-13: 9781780233376

actually some of the most symbolic birds within the human mind's eye, eagles were used for millennia to symbolize energy, divinity, warfare, justice and freedom. Eagle explores the wealthy historical past of this majestic poultry, an emblematic creature of sizeable significance to many cultures through the global. frequently linked to the cycle of lifestyles and loss of life, eagles include the paradoxes of our lifestyles: the sweetness and horror we, as people, face each day.
We affiliate the eagle with gentle and studying and likewise demise and corruption. Eagles decorate flags, activities workforce uniforms, and the trademarks of style manufacturers and have in lots of different logos and crests. yet those birds have additionally been relentlessly persecuted – perceived as predatory threats to farm animals or even to us people. it truly is transparent, despite the fact that, that we're even more risky to them than they're to us. Eagles have suffered the devastating results of human actions for years, from pesticide use to habitat destruction and worldwide warming; eagles all over the world are threatened. The failure to avoid wasting those birds will be disastrous for ecosystems around the globe, as those birds – the last word flying predator – supply unheard of aid with the inhabitants regulate of pests and meting out of the lifeless our bodies of different animals.
Eagle examines our complicated courting with those birds in addition to their foreign value and asks us to think about the results of wasting them to modern ecological threats.

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