Call of nature : the secret life of dung
/ Richard Jones.
- New Delhi : Speaking Tiger, 2017.
- x, 292 pages 20 cm
1 Introduction – what is dung? 2 Cleanliness is next to fastidiousness – the human obsession with sewage 3 Waste not – dung as a human resource 4 It’s worth fighting over – dung as a valuable ecological resource 5 Dung communities – interactions and conflicts 6 The evolution of dung feeding – where did it all begin? 7 A closer look – who lives in dung? 8 Cross section of a dung pat – a slice of coprophagous life 9 The ageing process – time line of a dung pat 10 Dung problems – the end of world ordure as we know it 11 Dung types – an identification guide 12 Dung inhabitants and dung feeders – a rogues’ gallery 13 Dung is a four-letter word – a scatological dictionary
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Feces -- Identification; Feces -- Recycling; Animals -- Food; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders: general interest; Nature & the natural world: general interest; Zoology: insects (entomology) & other invertebrates;