Wildlife category: 1081 books
by Harold Feinstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
In One Hundred Butterflies, photographer Harold Feinstein showcases butterfly varieties from around the world, turning exquisite details into mesmerizing works of art. Feinstein's breathtaking photographs capture the color, vibrancy, and infinite variety of patterns that occur on the wings of these...
by Ellie Whitney, D Bruce Means, Anne Rudloe
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses Florida's wetlands, including interior wetlands, seepage wetlands, marshes, flowing-water swamps, beaches and marine marshes, and mangrove swamps. Introduces readers to the trees and plants,...
Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
Ecology and Conservation of an Icon of Wildness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This book examines the rich history of grizzly bear management in Yellowstone National Park and explores the challenges of managing an apex predator in the face of climate change and increasing human presence in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Malaysia & Singapore
Including Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Borneo
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2000
Whether traveling through Southeast Asia or relaxing at home, bird lovers will enjoy this thorough and colorful Malaysian & Singapore bird watching guide.
This illustrated bird watching book is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of Malaysia and Singapore, mainland Southeast...
The Corfu Trilogy
My Family and Other Animals; Birds, Beasts and Relatives; and The Garden of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume.
The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become...
Why We Run
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
In Why We Run, biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ultraendurance and makes surprising discoveries about the physical, spiritual -- and primal -- drive to win. At once lyrical and scientific,...
The Last Rhinos
My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In The Last Rhinos, Anthony recounts...
Inside Animal Hearts and Minds
Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are of degree and not of kind.” Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies mourn as they cover the departed with...
Being a Beast
Adventures Across the Species Divide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
A passionate naturalist explores what it’s really like to be an animal—by living like them
How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the...
The Beauty of the Beasts
Tales of Hollywood's Wild Animal Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A trainer shares true stories of famous lion, orangutan, and other animal actors that “will hold readers enthralled” (School Library Journal).
They are major stars who do not speak a word onscreen, yet are world famous for their compelling performances. Who are they? The animal stars of...
Tropical Nature
Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest.
A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats,...
Infinite Earth
Organisms working together cooperatively
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Infinite Earth; An early theory piece By C.K. madden, Not one of her finest works but a great illustration on how she plots out her thoughts. Infinite Earth is quick paced theory on 3 things, Organisms, Animals, Humans, and Most willing to Adapt Evolution.
The Reluctant Twitcher
A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities. Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, had successfully avoided this latter pursuit for many years but capitulated in 2007 when he embarked on his "Big...
Once They Were Hats
In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore” (National Post).
Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million...