Full Description
Join the author's journey through the tangled ethics of our relationships with animals through this jargon-free easy read. Nick Fox discusses the myriad forms of hunting, and the reasons why we hunt, welfare issues, ethical values and habitat management. Also covered:
The roots of our behaviour that we share with other species
The psyche of the predator, the hunter-forager
Welfare issues in hunting and benchmarks of social acceptability
The evolutionary mechanism of morality
Moral communities and moral maps
Ethical values, who shares them, who judges them, and who enforces them.
Welfare of species, habitats and land ethics
Habitat management at the international and global levels
Over 1100 references, 143 photos, 34 ifgures and 7 tables.
Contents
Introduction
The roots of behaviour
What is 'Hunting'?
Predation and aggression
Animal welfare issues
The Morality of Hunting
The mechanism of morality
Shared ethical values
Morality: the judges
Morality: enforcement systems
The Evolutionary Trap
Epilogue
Fruther Reading
Index
