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Because the Cat Purrs: How We Relate to Other Species and Why it Matters by Janet Lembke
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Janet Lembke [Lembke, Janet]

It’s not the FDA regulation alone that affects the selling, finding, and holding of turtles as pets. Each one of the fifty states can put the Turtle Police on patrol ...
( Category: Fauna April 29,2019 )
Papa Goose: One Year, Seven Goslings, and the Flight of My Life by Michael Quetting & Stacey O'Brien & Jane Billinghurst
epub |eng | 2018-09-12 | Author:Michael Quetting & Stacey O'Brien & Jane Billinghurst

I SIT ON THE GRASS WITH A CAN OF BEER AND NOTICE that I still have the same peaceful feeling inside me that I had at the airfield. Is this ...
( Category: Zoology April 1,2019 )
Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution by Bryan Sykes
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Bryan Sykes

So far we have only considered genetic traits in the dog that affect its physical aspects – size, coat-colour, musculature and so on. These have a rich variety of causes ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication March 26,2019 )
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) by Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson [Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine]

HANDLING FEAR AGGRESSION Not all dogs who bite are dominant. Shy biters bite people because they’re afraid, not because they are dominant. German shepherds who bite are usually shy biters. ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication March 23,2019 )
Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene by Tim Dee
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Tim Dee

Jonathan Livingston Seagull To study the cultural presence of gulls, the uses we have put them to, is to come upon strikingly opposing representations. Gulls have been identified with purity ...
( Category: Ornithology March 22,2019 )
Genesis by Edward O. Wilson
epub |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

Cryptocercus are large for cockroaches. They survive not by sprinting away from enemies in the expected cockroach-in-the-kitchen manner, but passively, relying on the protection of their heavy chitinous armor. They ...
( Category: Zoology March 20,2019 )
How to Know the Birds by Ted Floyd
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Ted Floyd

104 POPULATION DYNAMICS: FIND YOUR OWN NICHE Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus THE SPECIES IS well named: Rock Wrens live among rocks. You can find them bopping around outcroppings above the ...
( Category: Ornithology March 14,2019 )
The Goodness Paradox by Wrangham Richard
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-01-28 | Author:Wrangham, Richard [Wrangham, Richard]

* * * — That domesticated animals cooperate better than their wild ancestors is shown by research on “cooperative communication,” which refers to understanding the deliberate sharing of useful information. ...
( Category: Primatology March 11,2019 )
Milk by unknow
epub |eng | 2013-04-19 | Author:unknow

( Category: Zoology June 29,2017 )
Secrets of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics) by Long William J
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Long, William J [Long, William J]

OF all the wild birds that still haunt our remaining solitudes, the ruffed grouse—the pa'tridge of our younger days—is perhaps the wildest, the most alert, the most suggestive of the ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry June 8,2017 )
School of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics) by Long William J
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Long, William J. [Long, William J.]

Unk Wunk the Porcupine A RUSTLING in the brakes just outside my little tent roused me from a light slumber. There it was again! the push of some heavy animal ...
( Category: Wildlife June 7,2017 )
How the Zebra Got Its Stripes by Léo Grasset
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Léo Grasset

PART IV The Human Factor Humans systematically come face to face with other species in the biosphere: sometimes we act as diabolical agents of destruction, and sometimes – if not ...
( Category: Zoology May 12,2017 )
Urban Animals by Holmberg Tora
epub |eng | | Author:Holmberg, Tora

Out of control Although most of the informants explain the phenomenon of animal hoarding as love that has gone awry, other explanations are also discursively available. I: Well, there are ...
( Category: Zoology April 7,2017 )
A Plea for the Animals by Matthieu Ricard
epub |eng | | Author:Matthieu Ricard

We should also consider here an argument of Peter Singer’s, the origin of which is to be found in Jeremy Bentham. This is a demonstration that has often been misinterpreted, ...
( Category: Ethics March 28,2017 )
The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Maurice Maeterlinck [Maeterlinck, Maurice]

62 And whom does the queen-bee obey! She is ruled by nourishment given her; for she does not take her own food, but is fed like a child by the ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 22,2017 )

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