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Alex & Me - How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene Pepperberg
mobi |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Irene Pepperberg

Not too long before we left Chicago, Alex gave me a terrible scare. In early September 1990, I returned from a short trip and found a message from a student ...
( Category: Animal Psychology April 5,2015 )
The Once and Future World by J.B. MacKinnon
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:J.B. MacKinnon

* Vegetarianism was in fashion in 1620s Netherlands, and one Snyders scholar has argued that this may have influenced the artist’s sympathetic portrayal of fish, which he often shows twisted ...
( Category: Ecology April 5,2015 )
Breasts by Florence Williams
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Florence Williams

• 9 • HOLY CRAP: HERMAN, HAMLET, AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT HUMAN GUT O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like ...
( Category: Obstetrics & Gynecology April 5,2015 )
Touching the Wild by Joe Hutto
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Joe Hutto

Bubba in prime condition the day he was killed by a mountain lion. Bubba, the next day. Boar, alone at last. Having somehow made it my business to observe these ...
( Category: Mammals April 5,2015 )
Wolf Country by John Theberge
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-31 | Author:John Theberge

These data indicate that for four days the pack was feeding on a moose at a bog edge ten kilometres from the rendezvous site. Foys 2 and Foys 4 were ...
( Category: Mammals April 5,2015 )
Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future by James Delingpole
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:James Delingpole

Forgive me if I sound slightly cynical about the ‘s’ word. Problem is, I do know what it means and how it entered the language, and I’m afraid it embodies ...
( Category: Environmental Policy April 5,2015 )
The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Jeremy Narby

THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK, my approach has consisted of translating the shamanism of ayahuasqueros to make it understandable to a Western audience. I believe it is in the interest of Amazonia’s ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 5,2015 )
The Pecan by James McWilliams
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:James McWilliams

CHAPTER 6 “Pecans for the World” THE PECAN GOES INDUSTRIAL, 1920–1945 If scientific agriculture came of age in the late 1800s, modern agribusiness arose in full force after World War ...
( Category: Trees April 4,2015 )
The Mushroom Hunters by Langdon Cook
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Langdon Cook

CHAPTER 8 The Discreet Charm of the Golden Chanterelle IF THE HEDGEHOG IS THE UNDERDOG of wild mushrooms, the matsutake an exotic foreigner, and the king bolete royalty, the chanterelle ...
( Category: Mushrooms March 30,2015 )
Raising Cattle for Dairy and Beef by Kim Pezza
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Kim Pezza [Pezza, Kim]

Some animals may appear weak, while others may only have chronic diarrhea. The animal usually will not exhibit any signs of fever. Although there seems to be no cure for ...
( Category: Fauna March 30,2015 )
Animal Weapons by Douglas J. Emlen
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas J. Emlen

Submarines were the ultimate “sneaks” in naval warfare. Small and invisible, they could sink even the largest of battleships. By 1914, it was clear even to the British that despite ...
( Category: Zoology March 22,2015 )
Saving Simon by Jon Katz
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Jon Katz [Katz, Jon]

Thanks for talking to me. I appreciate it. I want you to know that Simon is well and I will take good care of him. I suspect you did the ...
( Category: Mammals March 22,2015 )
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain : A Life in Neuroscience (9780062228819) by Gazzaniga Michael S
epub |eng | | Author:Gazzaniga, Michael S.

MORE FUNDING, MORE RESEARCH, MORE KNOWLEDGE Meanwhile, many visiting researchers were making a mess of the scientific literature on split-brain patients.7 The researchers seemed not to understand how cross-cueing tricks, ...
( Category: Biology March 22,2015 )
The Owl That Fell from the Sky by Brian Gill
epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Brian Gill

Old specimens in natural history museums, provided they have been carefully documented and faithfully numbered and labelled, tell many such stories—not just of bygone days and remote and exotic places, ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand March 22,2015 )
This Birding Life by Stephen Moss
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Stephen Moss

Teatime on Tobago MARCH 1998 Visiting the island of Tobago is rather like going back 30 years or so. The people are well-dressed and courteous, the beaches are unspoilt and ...
( Category: Wildlife March 22,2015 )

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