Nature Wildlife category: 1081 books

Few people knew the vast Okavango Delta better than Willie Phillips. He first ventured into the swamps to hunt crocodile in 1958, aged only 22. Here he learnt the bush skills that would serve him well as the first non-white professional hunter in Botswana. He gained a reputation as competent, tough...

Loch Lomondside is celebrated for its outstanding scenery. The area supports a rich tapestry of water and wild land, forest and woodland, farmland and settlement. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book is a comprehensive account...

This book takes the reader to almost 200 parks, refuges, and hot spots for migratory and resident birds throughout Pennsylvania. Details on 7 geographical regions—including 34 maps—make this the most comprehensive, statewide guide available to Pennsylvania birding sites.

Life Story is a tale of survival, laying bare the extraordinary journey animals must make to achieve life's goal – to continue their bloodline. Whether learning new skills, finding a mate or protecting their young, everything they do is a way of meeting a particular challenge to that goal. Extreme...

Wild Times on Skidaway Island: Georgia's Historic Rain Forest, details life in a unique Audubon-designated, ecologically friendly refuge. There, golfers pitch balls around endangered great blue herons, mama raccoons march their babies across backyard decks where once Guale Indians trapped ancestors...

Learn about Keo the baby otter and his family.  Keo’s parents teach him the dangers and joy’s of otter life.  Keo enjoys mudslides, learning to swim and to fish; he is taught to avoid traps and has to be rescued from a territorial beaver.   This book will be enjoyable for young readers because of all of the illustrations of the otter families’ daily activities.

This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!

**A complete illustrated survey of fragrance in the garden by America’s leading garden writer ** Popular garden writer Ken Druse offers a complete survey of fragrance in the garden, in a major work filled with new knowledge. He arranges both familiar and unusual garden plants, shrubs, and...

Ohiyesa, a Native American, writing under the name Charles Eastman, collected tales of his brothers and forefathers as they hunted for food, and told tales of contact with different animals. In this collection, there is expressed a feeling of camaraderie between the author and the subjects of the tales, a kinship between man and the animal world, which is not expressed elsewhere.

Methods in Neurosciences, Volume 5: Neuropeptide Technology: Gene Expression and Neuropeptide Receptors discusses procedures and tools of assay useful for the identification, purification, and quantification of neuropeptides and their receptors. This volume is divided into two sections—neuropeptide...

Karn, a Canada goose and Ski, a greylag, lose their freedom of the wild when they are captured by humans. Their life now is within the confines of a private qwildfowl collection, a small pool in a fenced area. Here they are joined by Cho, a noisy Chinese goose. Life became monotonous and might have...

If you ever dealt with a possum making the rounds of your neighborhood late at night, this story is sure to make you laugh! "Such barking, such endless yapping barking from a dog that usually holds his peace unless he is unduly troubled can only mean one thing. It is our turn to be honored...

Part of the challenges and rewards of being a field biologist is being able recreate a predation event. But that experience is often difficult and frustrating, as time, weather, and other factors can be make clues sparse. Even the most careful of investigators can spend hours of time second-guessing...