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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-04-24 | Author:Frans de Waal [de Waal, Frans]

Triadic Awareness Siamangs—large black members of the gibbon family—swing high up in the tallest trees of the Asian jungle. Every morning, the male and female burst into spectacular duets. Their ...
( Category: Fauna May 2,2016 )
Wild Connection by Jennifer L. Verdolin
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Jennifer L. Verdolin

YOU’RE MINE . . . ALL MINE Moving away from harassment and force, we still are in the land of less-than-desirable male mating strategies, at least from the perspective of ...
( Category: Sexuality May 1,2016 )
The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:J. M. Coetzee

Marjorie Garber “We are here tonight,” he informed the audience, “to listen to a lecture.” Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim THE TANNER LECTURES sponsored by the Princeton University Center for Human ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication April 30,2016 )
1938972120 (N) by Robert Trivers
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Robert Trivers [Trivers, Robert]

RAMMY AND ME. Glenroy leaning against me at Alligator Pond near his shop. (Trivers File Photo.) What to Do When a Crocodile Comes Straight at You? Someone asked Glenroy what ...
( Category: Developmental Biology April 21,2016 )
0142004413 (N) by Gerald Durrell
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category: Wildlife April 21,2016 )
Shark by Richard Ellis
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis

In other words, we’re all in this together: parrots, houseflies, killer whales, spiders, hippos, cassowaries, corals, crabs, dugongs, dingos, flamingos, anacondas, ants, bees, beagles, beetles, beavers, leopards, iguanas, ducks, platypuses, ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 11,2016 )
In the Company of Bears by Benjamin Kilham
epub |eng | 2013-10-20 | Author:Benjamin Kilham

In our world things are much more complicated, and perceptions of fairness are a lot less exact. Today, when people think about a contract, we think about a legal document ...
( Category: Wildlife April 10,2016 )
The Great White Bear by Kieran Mulvaney
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kieran Mulvaney [Mulvaney, Kieran]

The bear, at least in de Veer's telling, bit the man's head to pieces and began to suck out his blood as the rest of those ashore, approximately twenty in ...
( Category: Mammals April 8,2016 )
Critical Animal Studies by McCance Dawne
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:McCance, Dawne [McCance]

Ethics of Care Carol Adams elaborates her more recent critique of rights theory in favor of a feminist “ethics of care” in the above-mentioned anthology she edited with Josephine Donovan, ...
( Category: Zoology April 8,2016 )
Basic Texas Birds by Mark W. Lockwood
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Mark W. Lockwood

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, male. Photo by Tim Cooper. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER Sphyrapicus varius BACKGROUND Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers and the other species in the genus are well known for drilling rows of relatively shallow ...
( Category: Ornithology April 8,2016 )
The Red Canary by Tim Birkhead
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Tim Birkhead

Mixed Encounters The term ‘mule’ originally referred exclusively to the cross-bred offspring of a donkey and a horse but has since been applied to hybrid plants, hybrid fish and in ...
( Category: Ornithology April 8,2016 )
Astonishing Animals by Tim Flannery
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Flannery

Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) Great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura) SOMETIMES THE environment exerts similar evolutionary pressures on different animals, so that over time they end up looking remarkably similar. A striking case ...
( Category: Zoology April 7,2016 )
The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Douglas H. Chadwick

After the country melted out, Copeland flew once a week to get radio locations. “Then we’d go in on the ground to try to follow the animals,” he explained. “The ...
( Category: State & Local April 6,2016 )
Birdology by Sy Montgomery
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Sy Montgomery

An eager hunting partner flies to master falconer Nancy Cowan’s glove. In her short lifetime, Smoke has not yet killed a pheasant, but she has chased three. Her first time ...
( Category: Ornithology April 3,2016 )
Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg
epub |eng | | 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: Ornithology April 2,2016 )

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