Zoology category: 2375 books
Wesley the Owl
The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild....
Gifts of the Crow
How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
CROWS ARE MISCHIEVOUS, playful, social, and passionate. They have brains that are huge for their body size and exhibit an avian kind of eloquence. They mate for life and associate with relatives and neighbors for years. And because they often live near people—in our gardens, parks, and cities—they...
Frankenstein's Cat
Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
One of Nature's Summer Book Picks
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books
For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions,...
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...
by Frans de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.
For many years,...
What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage
Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life–namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland...
Parasite Rex
Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction.
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules.
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution,...
by Frans de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
**New York Times Bestseller
Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.**
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...
by Juan Luis Cifuentes, Germán Cupul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Desde épocas remotas el cocodrilo ha fascinado al hombre, basta ver la ciudad que los egipcios bautizaron en su honor, ascendiéndolo a la categoría de dios. Cifuentes y Cupul admiran también a los cocodrilos y se han dedicado a su estudio. No hay un solo cocodrilo del mundo que no sea tratado...
Kindred Beings
What Seventy-Three Chimpanzees Taught Me About Life, Love, and Connection
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Enter a world of tender friendships, staunch loyalties, violent jealousies—and enduring love.
As a child, Sheri Speede knew that she wanted to advocate for animals in any way she could. But it was not until many years after veterinary school, when she was transporting a chimpanzee named Pierre...
by Edward Kanze
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
"An insightful commentary on the congenial inhabitants, both human and animal, which first lured the author to this magnificent land." - Booklist. Unlike Australia, which is geologically stable, New Zealand is young and impetuous - ready to rumble at any moment. Temperate and green as the...
by Peter Matthiessen
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born -- nominated for...
The Ape And The Sushi Master
Cultural Reflections Of A Primatologist
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mama's Last Hug and Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, a provocative argument that apes have created their own distinctive cultures
In The Ape and the Sushi Master, eminent primatologist Frans de Waal corrects our arrogant assumption...
by David Paxton
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
A profound re-appraisal of human evolution with dogs. Our ability to speak words set us apart from other human-like species who could not. Those other species are now extinct. But the anatomy for speaking words interferes with our sense of smell. Ancestors of the dog moved into caves of human ancestors...