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Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home by Rupert Sheldrake
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake [Sheldrake, Rupert]

For every case like this that is reported in the newspapers, dozens must remain unpublicized. On our database we have ninety-five unpublished stories of homing dogs and sixty-one of homing ...
( Category: Mammals March 13,2017 )
The Perfect Shape by Øyvind Hammer
epub |eng | | Author:Øyvind Hammer

Newton and his proponents were eventually able to clarify their position and to explain why the conic sections are the only possible solutions under the inverse square law. In 1720, ...
( Category: Zoology February 25,2017 )
Wildlife Spectacles by Vladimir Dinets
epub |eng | 2016-01-09 | Author:Vladimir Dinets [Dinets, Vladimir]

A red-spotted toad brought out of hiding by summer monsoon rains in Animas Valley, NM. Sea turtle walks are conducted in late summer at Bald Head Island, NC, in Wassaw ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication January 10,2017 )
CatWise by Pam Johnson-Bennett
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Pam Johnson-Bennett

Question: How can I help my cat, Benny, be more comfortable when I have guests over? Pam’s Answer: First, you’ll need to do some preliminary work with Benny. Get a ...
( Category: Training December 8,2016 )
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Christie Wilcox [Wilcox, Christie]

Chip Cochran moving a large red rattlesnake out of its enclosure at Loma Linda University (Photograph by Christie Wilcox) * * * Every year, millions of people show up at ...
( Category: Zoology August 23,2016 )
Wild Babies by Traer Scott
epub |eng | 2016-08-13 | Author:Traer Scott [Scott, Traer]

MALLARD DUCKLING One week old When a duckling hatches it will imprint upon the first living creature it sees that is larger than itself, which is usually the mother duck. ...
( Category: Plants & Animals August 14,2016 )
Tears of the Cheetah by Stephen J. O'Brien
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen J. O'Brien

Ten The Way We Were Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution. —THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY The Old Testament, as interpreted by the esteemed seventeenth-century archbishop James Ussher, tells ...
( Category: Zoology July 19,2016 )
Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs by Roger Lederer
epub |eng | 2016-07-16 | Author:Roger Lederer

DEALING WITH HEAT Heat stress (hyperthermia)—elevated body temperature—appears, overall, to be more severe than cold stress (hypothermia) in birds. Overheating is a common problem faced by poultry producers, as too ...
( Category: Ornithology July 17,2016 )
What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Balcombe

Dubious Dealings Mucus nipping? Jolts? This is where the cleaner-client symbiosis gets more complicated, even Machiavellian. The cleaner-client symbiosis may seem neat and tidy—where everybody gains, and politeness and consideration ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks June 10,2016 )
Into the Nest by Laura Erickson
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Laura Erickson

Tree and Barn Swallows “One swallow does not a summer make.” That line, coined by Aristotle about 350bce, describes the Barn Swallow, one of the most widespread bird species in ...
( Category: Ornithology May 14,2016 )
Dolphin Mysteries by Kathleen M. Dudzinski & Toni Frohoff
epub |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Kathleen M. Dudzinski & Toni Frohoff

At times dolphins may leap just for fun … and sometimes leaps become part of a game of keep-away or tag. Spinner dolphins are named for their spinning leaps. Not ...
( Category: Marine Life May 13,2016 )
The Book of Eggs by Mark E. Hauber
epub |eng | 2014-04-11 | Author:Mark E. Hauber

Once the sexually dichromatic female and male have established their nesting territory, they must find a suitable mud or sand bank into which they can carve a brand new nest ...
( Category: Ornithology May 12,2016 )
The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

Terrible Toads and a Bushel of Birds By the time we had been in the Chaco two months, our collection had reached such proportions that it took us all our ...
( Category: Zoology May 6,2016 )
The APBC Book of Companion Animal Behaviour by David Appleby
epub |eng | | Author:David Appleby

Hostility Levels of hostility within the related groups are low but intrusion by unrelated individuals poses a potential risk to offspring, increases the demand on essential resources and is poorly ...
( Category: Animal Psychology May 5,2016 )
The Backyard Birdsong Guide Eastern and Central North America by Donald Kroodsma
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Donald Kroodsma

Daytime caroling songs Dawn song with carols and hissellys EASTERN BLUEBIRD (Sialia sialis) Summer Year-round Winter HABITAT: Open areas with sparse ground vegetation, often using nest boxes: farmlands, orchards, clear-cuts, ...
( Category: Ornithology May 5,2016 )

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