1 小时前 · Taking a cue from recent works by Maurice Saß and Michael Thimann, in which they both insist on the “image-producing” (bildstiftende) dimension of the art of hunting, this chapter examines visual violence, guilt, retinal revenge, and the interchangeability of hunter and prey in a few reimagined versions of the Artemis (Diana) and Actaeon myth from Ovid to the early …

1 小时前 · Footnote 17 Moreover, since the sixteenth century at the latest, the riskier elements of the hunt were increasingly delegated to the hunting animals and the professional (and always male) court hunters to avoid fatal accidents of members of the ruling dynasties or the high nobility. Thus, both male and female courtiers followed the coursings on ...

1 小时前 · The very inefficiency and high failure rate of hunting are taken to explain its stability and perpetuity as a worthwhile undertaking—indeed, to provide its structuring principle—for these are the means by which that activity gets translated or converted into something else, something more abstract and symbolic: namely, a representation of the hunter’s inherent qualities, an …

11 小时之前 · Birds don't necessarily love hunting in polar temperatures like the ones the U.S. saw repeatedly this winter. Localized extreme weather events like floods can temporarily reshape game populations ...

1 天前 · The bizarre proposal was a response to proposed legislation in the U.K. and Germany that would ban trophy hunting, making it illegal for their citizens to kill elephants and other wild animals ...

1 天前 · The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a large cat and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia.It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two subspecies, mainland Asian tigers and the island tigers of the Sunda Islands.

1 天前 · Plate of a Sasanian king hunting rams, perhaps Kavad I (r. 488–496, 498–531). The second golden era began after the second reign of Kavad I. With the support of the Hephthalites, Kavad launched a campaign against the Romans. In 502, he took Theodosiopolis in Armenia, but lost it soon afterwards. In 503 he took Amida on the Tigris. In 504 ...

1 天前 · The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the largest wild cats alive today. It is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene for about 12,000 to 16,500 years. Its historical range covered the Indus River valley until the early 19th century, almost all of India, …

1 天前 · The high trauma rate may be ascribed to a dangerous hunting strategy, [18] or frequent animal attacks. [ 120 ] Low population caused a low genetic diversity and probably inbreeding, which reduced the population's ability to filter out harmful mutations ( inbreeding depression ).

1 天前 · Light pollution is the presence of any unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting. [1] [2] In a descriptive sense, the term light pollution refers to the effects of any poorly implemented lighting sources, during the day or night.Light pollution can be understood not only as a phenomenon resulting from a specific source or kind of pollution, but also as a contributor …