By whatever measures scientists choose for social intelligence, behavioural resilience of wolves illustrates their adaptations to changing aspects of their environments in the wild and captivity. This book presents research on the biology, behaviour and conservation of wolves.

Saga of Brutes draws together three confronting and darkly comic stories: Between Dog Fights and Hog Slaughter, The Dirty Work of Others, and carbo animalis, published in one volume for the first time. Ana Paula Maia s no-holds barred narrative pulls few punches, describing a shocking reality of the lives of the invisible workingmen who, like Atlas, are forced to carry society s burdens. These heroes of vile circumstance coal miners, firemen, garbage collectors, crematorium workers are the soot-covered supermen who risk their lives performing difficult and dangerous work for others....

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.