Animals category: 23627 books
by Lori Mortensen
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Animals sing or talk to communicate. They make noise for different reasons. Find out why some animals make certain noises. Paired to the fiction title So Many Classes.
Chasing Doctor Dolittle
Learning the Language of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
"Slobodchikoff's ground-breaking research" (Jonathan Balcombe) shows us that animals have much to teach us about language
Groundbreaking research has been done teaching animals human language, but what about the other way around? Studies have shown that lizards, squid, monkeys, and...
by Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
To see the animals at the zoo on Sunday afternoon is one thing. To know them intimately, offstage, is quite another. In this book, which has delighted readers for two generations. Dr. Ditmars, who was curator of mammals and reptiles at New York’s Bronx Zoo, gives an extraordinary account of his...
by Malcolm Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Back from the Brink is an antidote to a world that seems full of stories of wildlife doom and gloom. Amongst all the loss of habitat and the animals and plants that are in spiralling decline, it’s easy to forget that there are a huge number of positive stories too; animals threatened with extinction,...
The Animal Manifesto
Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
In this inspirational call to action, Marc Bekoff, the world’s leading expert on animal emotions, gently shows that improving our treatment of animals is a matter of rethinking our many daily decisions and “expanding our compassion footprint.” He demonstrates that animals experience a rich range...
Carnivore Minds
Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Myth and media typically cast animals we consider predators or carnivores as unthinking killers—dangerous, unpredictable, and devoid of emotion. But is this portrait valid? By exploring their inner lives, this pioneering book refutes the many misperceptions that hide the true nature of these animals....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
There is increasing interest in the biology of domestic animals ranging from genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, nutritional physiology, and systems biology. This book touches on all of these, with a particular focus on topics such as domestic animals as comparative models to humans, molecular...
Making Kind Choices
Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Choosing a compassionate lifestyle that makes you feel good and positively impacts on the environment and on animals has never been easier. In this practical and accessible handbook, loaded with resources for all products that are mentioned, Ingrid Newkirk presents fabulous options that will not only...
TIME The Animal Mind
How They Think. How They Feel. How to Understand Them.
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
They work with us, they play with us . . . but what do they think of us?
Some of our best friends are animals. But what are they really thinking? Discover the rich inner lives of dogs, cats, whales, elephants, parrots, and dozens of other animals-even insects-with this thought-provoking book,...
Marineland
Inside the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, the red eyes of a harbour seal named Larry stared out from behind bars on the front page of the Toronto Star, in the first story of the series Inside Marineland. Larry immediately went viral as readers worried about his welfare and that of other animals at the tourist attraction....
Learning Their Language
Intuitive Communication with Animals and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Almost everyone has had a moment when they've felt a connection to an animal. Animal communicator Marta Williams says this is the basis of animal communication and it's a skill anyone can develop. Williams's background as a scientist informs her logical step-by-step approach to learning the "language"...
The Wauchula Woods Accord
Toward a New Understanding of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
WHILE TRAVELING AROUND THE COUNTRY to report on the conditions in which captive chimpanzees in America live, Charles Siebert visited a retirement home for former ape movie stars and circus entertainers in Wauchula, Florida, known as the Center for Great Apes. There Siebert encountered Roger, a twenty-eight-year-old...
by Stephen Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Kanzi the chimp, Koko the ape, singing whales, trumpeting elephants, and dolphins trained for naval service--all of them make the news each year. Members of these species learn to communicate both with their voices and with body language, and without the signals they develop, each would be an island,...
Supernavigators
Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
“Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book.”—Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book Review
Publisher's note: Supernavigators was published in the UK under the title Incredible Journeys.
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