6/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America Kindle Edition by Dan Flores (Author)
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6/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America Kindle Edition by Dan Flores (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Wild-New-World-Animals-America-ebook/dp/B09TQ2TMN2
In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America’s known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent’s evolutionary richness.
Distinguished author Dan Flores’s ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Floresdescribes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before.
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| 0:56.0 | Originally, Eurasian settlers and their sympathetic approach to the animal kingdom where they thrived, |
| 1:04.0 | and the second invasion of the Eurasian homo sapiens, where they were either |
| 1:11.0 | consternated or frightened by the animal kingdom. |
| 1:15.0 | Now we move to the west of the country. |
| 1:18.0 | And Lewis and Clark record the first shooting of a buffalo that's official in American life. |
| 1:24.0 | At the same time, this period of revelations across America also include a man named John James Audubon, |
| 1:32.0 | whom we remember as the Audubon Society. |
| 1:35.0 | So there are two approaches going on. |
| 1:37.0 | One, how rich are we and what can we do with it? |
| 1:40.0 | That would be the buffalo, the elk, and the wild animals of the west, and the other appreciate the bird life, |
| 1:47.0 | the ornithology that is here right now. |
| 1:50.0 | Let's start with Audubon. |
| 1:52.0 | Dan, you make it very clear that he had to kill the animals, the birds that he painted, |
| 1:57.0 | because they wouldn't hold still form, of course. |
| 2:00.0 | Did he regret? |
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