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Wild Animals of the Canadian Rockies
Book by Van Tighem, Kevin
- GenresNonfiction
56 pages, Paperback
First published February 20, 2004
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January 21, 2023
“The Blackfoot say that Napi came here after he created the animals and taught people how to live. He came at last to a place where limestone walls rear high into the sky and newborn waters cascade down glaciers. In that place, there are grizzly tracks in the river mud. Wolves howl. Wild animals exhale the breath of their creator. It is like that there, even now.”
Wild Animals of the Canadian Rockies is a large, thin paperback, possibly targeted to the tourist trade, as it is packed with photographs.
There are six sections:
Bears
Ungulates
Wild Cats
Wild Dogs
Small Mammals
Smallest Mammals
All the animals we might associate with Canada are covered: bears of various sorts: black, brown and grizzlies, bighorn sheep, elk, bison, caribou, wolves, foxes, badgers, coyotes, moose, beavers, raccoons, porcupines, gophers and chipmunks, red squirrels, weasels, cougars, lynx, bobcats and others perhaps less well known such as Columbian and Richardson’s ground squirrels, white-tailed deer, wolverines, deer mice, showshoe hares, hoary marmots, golden-mantled ground squirrels and pikas (tiny rabbits).
Yet there are no photographs of insects in this book - nor any birds!
The author Kevin Van Tighem has a degree in plant ecology from the University of Calgary and worked as a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service. He later worked in various national parks before retiring as a park superintendent in 2011. Kevin Van Tighem is the author of at least fourteen books on wildlife and conservation and writes a regular wildlife column in a magazine.
Esther Schmidt and her husband Dennis have also authored numerous books on the wildlife of western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. They evidently have a strong commitment to conservation, and these photographs show Canada’s wildlife in all seasons, and at all all phases and stages of their lives. Their excellent photographs show a keen sense of place and mood, often capturing a moment which shows the typical behaviour of an animal when it does not know it is being observed. It is a fascinating book, and lovely to browse through.
Wild Animals of the Canadian Rockies is a large, thin paperback, possibly targeted to the tourist trade, as it is packed with photographs.
There are six sections:
Bears
Ungulates
Wild Cats
Wild Dogs
Small Mammals
Smallest Mammals
All the animals we might associate with Canada are covered: bears of various sorts: black, brown and grizzlies, bighorn sheep, elk, bison, caribou, wolves, foxes, badgers, coyotes, moose, beavers, raccoons, porcupines, gophers and chipmunks, red squirrels, weasels, cougars, lynx, bobcats and others perhaps less well known such as Columbian and Richardson’s ground squirrels, white-tailed deer, wolverines, deer mice, showshoe hares, hoary marmots, golden-mantled ground squirrels and pikas (tiny rabbits).
Yet there are no photographs of insects in this book - nor any birds!
The author Kevin Van Tighem has a degree in plant ecology from the University of Calgary and worked as a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service. He later worked in various national parks before retiring as a park superintendent in 2011. Kevin Van Tighem is the author of at least fourteen books on wildlife and conservation and writes a regular wildlife column in a magazine.
Esther Schmidt and her husband Dennis have also authored numerous books on the wildlife of western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. They evidently have a strong commitment to conservation, and these photographs show Canada’s wildlife in all seasons, and at all all phases and stages of their lives. Their excellent photographs show a keen sense of place and mood, often capturing a moment which shows the typical behaviour of an animal when it does not know it is being observed. It is a fascinating book, and lovely to browse through.
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