Being a Beast (25 page)

Bibliography

1. Becoming a Beast

David Abram,
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World
, New York, Vintage, 1997.

———,
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
, New York, Pantheon, 2010.

J. A. Baker,
The Peregrine,
introduction by Robert Macfarlane, New York, New York Review Books, 2005.

‘BB' [Denys Watkins-Pitchford],
Brendon Chase
, London, Hollis, 1944.

Jack Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp,
Principles of Animal Communication
, Sunderland, Massachusetts, Sinauer, 2011.

John Downer,
Supersense: Perception in the Animal World
, London, BBC Books, 1988.

Jonathan Safran Foer,
Eating Animals
, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2009.

Jay Griffiths,
Wild: An Elemental Journey
, London, Penguin, 2007.

Geoffrey Household,
Rogue Male
, London, Chatto and Windus, 1939.

Bradley G. Klein,
Cunningham's Textbook of Veterinary Physiology
, Amsterdam, Saunders, 2012.

David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce,
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods
, London, Thames and Hudson, 2009.

Iain McGilchrist,
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2012.

George Monbiot,
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
, London, Penguin, 2014.

Virginia Morell,
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
, Brecon, Old Street Publishing, 2013.

George Page,
Inside the Animal Mind
, New York, Broadway Books, 2001.

David Rothenberg,
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution
, London, Bloomsbury, 2011.

2. Badger

People

Burt and Meg, of course

Dr Chris Newman, WildCRU, University of Oxford

Derek Gow, Upcott Grange Farm

Hugh Warwick

Mark West, Indicknowle Farm

Many of the volunteers at Wytham Woods, Oxford

Books

Patrick Barkham,
Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal
, London, Granta, 2013.

Michael Clark,
Badgers
, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Whittet, 2010.

Cynan Jones,
The Dig
, London, Granta, 2014.

Daniel Heath Justice,
Badger
, London, Reaktion, 2015.

Ernest Neal,
The Badger
, London, Collins, 1969.

Tim Roper,
Badger
, London, Collins, 2010.

Article

V. E. Sidorovich, I. I. Rotenko and D. A. Krasko, ‘Badger (
Meles meles
) Spatial Structure and Diet in an Area of Low Earthworm Biomass and High Predator Risk,'
Annales Zoologici Fennici
, vol. 48, 2011, pp. 1–16.

3. Otter

People

Nigel Phillips, Somerset Wildlife Trust

Ione Willcock, Exmoor National Park Authority

Daphne Neville

Simon, James, Richard and Wendy Wyburn, Staghunters' Inn, Brendon, Exmoor

Books

Daniel Allen,
Otter
, London, Reaktion, 2010.

Paul Chanin and Guy Troughton,
Otters
, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Whittet, 2013.

Miriam Darlington,
Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
, London, Granta, 2012.

Hans Kruuk,
Otters: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation
, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Gavin Maxwell,
Ring of Bright Water
, London, Longmans, 1960.

———,
The Rocks Remain
, London, Longmans, 1963.

———,
Raven Seek Thy Brother
, London, Longmans, 1969.

James Williams,
The Otter
, Ludlow, Shropshire, Merlin Unwin, 2010.

Henry Williamson,
Tarka the Otter
, London, G. P. Putnam, 1927.

4. Fox

People

Professor David Macdonald, WildCRU, University of Oxford

The Joint Masters at the time of the Coniston Foxhounds, the Blencathra Foxhounds, the Lunesdale Foxhounds, the Melbreak Foxhounds, the Pennine Foxhounds, the Dumfriesshire Foxhounds, the South Shropshire Foxhounds and (though they don't hunt foxes) the Ecclesfield Beagles, the Shropshire Beagles and the Trinity Foot Beagles

Several sheep farmers in the High Peak, Derbyshire

Roger and Doreen Westmoreland

Malcolm and Pip Chisholm

Mike Smith

Mervyn Vickery

Books

‘BB' [Denys Watkins-Pitchford],
Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox
, London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1938.

Stephen Harris,
Urban Foxes
, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Whittet, 2001.

J. David Henry,
Red Fox: The Cat-like Canine
, Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1996.

H. G. Lloyd,
The Red Fox
, London, Batsford, 1980.

David Macdonald,
Running with the Fox
, London, Harper Collins, 1989.

Martin Wallen,
Fox
, London, Reaktion, 2006.

5. Red Deer

People

Everyone listed here hates the bitchy chauvinism of the Highland lodge which is described in the chapter, and no one here is guilty of it.

Dr John Fletcher, Reedie Hill Deer Farm, Auchtermuchty

Richard Eales, Exmoor National Park Authority

David Greenwood, Joint Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds

The Joint Masters at the time of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, the Quantock Staghounds and the Tiverton Staghounds

Many stalkers and ghillies across the Scottish Highlands

Duff and Phylla Hart-Davies

David Lyon

Katy Stewart-Smith

Dr Chris Thouless, Save the Elephants

Dr Murray Corke, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge

Professor Peter Clegg, School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool

Professor Roger Smith, Royal Veterinary College

Professor Christine Nicol, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol

Dr Liz Paul, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol

Dr Jo Edgar, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol

Matthew Price

Farlap Bloodhounds

Books, Chapters and Reports

P. Bateson,
The Behavioural and Physiological Effects of Culling Red Deer
, report to the National Trust, London, 1997.

Patrick Chalmers,
Mine Eyes to the Hills: An Anthology of the Highland Forest
, London, A. C. Black, 1931.

John Fletcher,
Deer
, London, Reaktion, 2013.

J. W. Fortescue,
The Story of a Red Deer
, London, Sportsman's Press, 1897.

R. C. Harris, T. R. Helliwell, W. Shingleton, N. Stickland and J. R. J. Naylor,
The Physiological Response of Red Deer
(Cervus elaphus
) to Prolonged Exercise Undertaken During Hunting
, Newmarket, R&W Publications, 1999.

Duff Hart-Davies,
Monarchs of the Glen: A History of Deer Stalking in the Scottish Highlands
, London, Jonathan Cape, 1978.

———,
Among the Deer
, Wykey, Shropshire, Quiller, 2011.

Richard Jeffries,
Red Deer
, London, Longman, Green, 1884.

Jochen Langbein and Rory Putman, ‘Studies of English Red Deer Populations Subject to Hunting-to-Hounds', in Victoria J. Taylor and Nigel Dunstone (eds),
The Exploitation of Mammal Populations
, London, Chapman & Hall, 1996.

Richard Prior,
Deer Watch
, Wykey, Shropshire, Swan Hill, 2007.

Henry Williamson, ‘Stumberleap', in
The Old Stag
, London, G. P. Putnam, 1926.

Articles

J. L. Edgar, C. J. Nicol, C. C. A. Clark and E. S. Paul, ‘Measuring Empathic Responses in Animals',
Applied Animal Behaviour Science
, vol. 138, 2012, pp. 182–93.

J. Langbein, ‘The Ranging Behaviour, Habitat-Use and Impact of Deer in Oak Woods and Heather Moors on Exmoor',
Deer
, vol. 10, 1997, pp. 516–21.

L. H. Thomas and W. R. Allen, ‘A Veterinary Opinion on Hunting with Hounds',
www.vet-wildlifemanagement.org.uk/images/stories/item-images/pdf/VetOpinion.pdf
.

6. Swift

People

Professor Tim Birkhead, University of Sheffield

Professor Susanne Akesson, Lund University

Dr Andrew Gosler, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford

Professor Yossi Leshem, Tel Aviv University

Amnonn Hahn

Shira Twersky-Cassell

All at the International Common Swift Seminars, particularly Ulrich Tigges, Chris Mason and Gillian Westray

Books

Phil Chantler and Gerald Driessens,
Swifts: A Guide to the Swifts and Tree-Swifts of the World
, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, Pica, 2000.

Alan Garner,
Boneland
, London, Fourth Estate, 2012.

David Lack,
Swifts in a Tower
, London, Methuen, 1956.

Rupert Sheldrake,
The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature
, London, Icon, 2011.

———,
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals
, London, Arrow, 2000.

Article

S. Akesson, R. Klaassen, J. Holmgren, J. W. Fox and A. Hedenstrom, ‘Migration Routes and Strategies in a Highly Aerial Migrant, the Common Swift,
Apus apus
, Revealed by Light-Level Geolocators',
PLoS ONE
, vol. 7, no. 7, 2012, p. e41195.