Zoology category: 2375 books
by DK Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
After years of planning, marine biologists Dom Marlin and Jake Sturgeon set off to explore Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest ocean trench in the world, in DK Adventures: Terrors of the Deep.
Join them from pre-launch checks in the submersible Orion, to their encounters with great...
Orange Animals On The Planet
Animal Encyclopedia for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
How many orange animals do you know? I bet not too many! Open the pages of this book to increase your knowledge on these brightly-colored animals. Picture books are excellent study tools that improve your photo memory, focus and love for learning too. DonÕt forget to grab your copy today!
City Creatures
Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
We usually think of cities as the domain of humans—but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar creatures like squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, but might be surprised to learn about all the leafhoppers and water bears,...
How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend
A Training Manual for Dog Owners
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2001
For more than a quarter century, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend has been the standard against which all other dog-training books have been measured. This expanded edition preserves the best features of the original classic while bringing the book fully up-to-date. The result: the ultimate training...
The Tribe of Tiger
Cats and Their Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
From the majestic Bengal tiger to the domesticated Siamese comes a meditation on cats from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Social Lives of Dogs
From as far back in time as the disappearance of the dinosaurs, cats have occupied an important place in our evolutionary,...
Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind
A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this fascinating book, wildlife expert and enthusiast Warner Shedd refutes popular animal myths like squirrels remembering where they bury nuts, wolves howling at the moon, and oppossums "playing dead."
Have you ever seen a flying squirrel flapping through the air, watched a beaver...
Emperors of the Deep
Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel misplaced fear and correct common misconceptions, explores in-depth the secret lives of sharks—magnificent creatures who play an integral part in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans and ultimately...
In the Company of Bears
What Black Bears Have Taught Me about Intelligence and Intuition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In In the Company of Bears, originally published in hardcover as Out on a Limb, Ben Kilham invites us into the world he has come to know best: the world of black bears.
For decades, Kilham has studied wild black bears in a vast tract of Northern New Hampshire woodlands. At times, he has also...
North on the Wing
Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The story of an ornithologist's journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland and into Canada.
In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward...
Mind of the Raven
Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process,...
by Frans de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic
Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins,...
by Barry Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
National Book Award Finalist: A “brilliant” study of the science and mythology of the wolf by the New York Times–bestselling author of Arctic Dreams (The Washington Post).
When John Fowles reviewed Of Wolves and Men, he called it “A remarkable book, both biologically absorbing and humanly...
Chaser
Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
**A New York Times Bestseller
"The most scientifically important dog in over a century." —Brian Hare**
Chaser has fascinated dog lovers and scientists alike. Her story reveals the potential for taking out dialogue with dogs well beyond "fetch." When retired psychology...
The Evolution of Beauty
How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
**A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create...