An animal face in Ashurbanipal's reliefs (7th BC) ? Case study of the horse (Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758) and lion (Panthera leo 1758). Following studies carried out by Pauline Albenda or Elena Cassin on human-animal relationship through figures 1758), this specifically questions facial features these two animals as well that human under reign Ashurbanipal (669-631/627 BC). The corpus consist...

Contemporary subsistence hunting practices of North American Indians have been questioned because of hunters’ use of modern technologies and integration of wage-based and subsistence livelihoods. Tribal traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has been questioned on similar grounds and used as justification for ignoring tribal perspectives on critical natural resource conservation and development...

International pressure to ban trophy hunting is increasing. However, we argue that trophy hunting can be an important conservation tool, provided it can be done in a controlled manner to benefit biodiversity conservation and local people. Where political and governance structures are adequate, trophy hunting can help address the ongoing loss of species.

 The present study is a theoretical attempt to illustrate how Fillmore's Scenes and Frames Semantics (SFS) could be employed as a framework to portray the process of understanding and translating hybrid texts. It first reviews the origin of SFS; then it maps SFS onto Nida’s linguistic model of translation process and the Interpretive Theory of Translation; it examines in the next section, withi...

Records of official deer control operations in the Kaweka Range between 1958 and 1988 have been used to describe the pattern of official hunting, to indicate changes in hunting efficiency, and to show trends in the proportions of sika and red deer in sympatric populations. The pattern of hunting largely reflected wild animal control priorities, and to some extent the resources available. Wherea...

BACKGROUND The influence of policy on the incidence of human-wildlife conflict can be complex and not entirely anticipated. Policies for managing bear hunter success and depredation on hunting dogs by wolves represent an important case because with increasing wolves, depredations are expected to increase. This case is challenging because compensation for wolf depredation on hunting dogs as comp...

This study surveyed 33 male hunters between the ages of 17 and 54 at the Community Baboon Sanctuary (CBS), Belize, to evaluate attitudes and behaviors in relation to hunting black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra). The study defined hunting restraint as a learned predisposition not to hunt 1 or more species of nonhuman animal. Consistent with Belizean folklore, Creoles at the CBS exhibited huntin...

Ali Shir Nava’i (d.1501) was a famous statesman, poet and linguist, political cultural identity in the Timurid capital, Herat at end of 15th century. The subject this research is first only illustrated copy Nava’i’s Khamseh, which produced Ottoman Royal Atelier. colophon on folio 309v copy, dating 937/1530-31, shows that calligrapher, bookbinder painter Khamseh as Pir Ahmed bin Iskender. This i...