Jones, Richard

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;

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