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Wake-Robin
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * V SPRING AT THE CAPITAL WITH AN EYE TO THE BIRDS I came to Washington to live in the fall of 1863, and, with the exception of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 30,2015 )
Gods of the Morning by John Lister-Kaye
epub |eng | | Author:John Lister-Kaye

11 The Long Wait When Springtime came, red Robin built a nest, And trilled a lover’s song in sheer delight. Grey hoarfrost vanished, and the Rose with might Clothed her ...
( Category: Wildlife May 27,2015 )
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig by Mark Essig
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Mark Essig [Essig, Mark]

Since the colonial period, Americans had been famous for consuming vast amounts of beef and pork, especially by comparison with the meat-starved peasantry of Europe. Statistics for early America are ...
( Category: Mammals May 26,2015 )
Animal Madness by Laurel Braitman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laurel Braitman [Braitman, Laurel]

Early Adopters in the Cuckoo’s Nest One of the first nonhumans to be given psychopharmaceuticals not as a test subject but as a patient was a gorilla named Willie B. ...
( Category: Animal Psychology May 26,2015 )
Welcome to Subirdia by John M. Marzluff
epub |eng | 2014-05-22 | Author:John M. Marzluff [Marzluff, John M.]

Evolutionary responses to urbanization are not the sole province of birds and mammals. Insects and amphibians also evolve strategies to urban life. Color changes in response to urban pollution are ...
( Category: Wildlife May 25,2015 )
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Sy Montgomery [Montgomery, Sy]

When I return to the aquarium, I find the last fish have been evacuated from the GOT. Aquarium engineers pulled the plug on the 200,000-gallon tank at 10 a.m., October ...
( Category: Marine Life May 25,2015 )
The Narrow Edge by Deborah Cramer
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Deborah Cramer [Cramer, Deborah]

Ten DOES LOSING ONE MORE BIRD MATTER? The knot ghost trail from Texas up through the Great Plains, once populated but now rarely used and fading from memory, is disquieting. ...
( Category: Invertebrates May 25,2015 )
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-02 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

MINGLING AT THE BORDER Does the fact that one of our closest relatives kills its neighbors mean that, as a recent documentary put it, “warfare is in our DNA”? This ...
( Category: Primatology May 11,2015 )
Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Gerald Durrell

CHAPTER FIVE THE NIGHTINGALE TOUCH Dear Mr Durrel, You are the most evil man I know. All God’s creatures should have their freedom, and for you to lock them up ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication April 5,2015 )
A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Gerald Durrell

I watched her do this three days in succession before I was satisfied that I was not imagining things, for it seemed to me to be one of the weirdest ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
Unlikely Loves by Jennifer S. Holland
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Jennifer S. Holland

MINIATURE HORSE As their name suggests, these are simply little horses, selectively bred over many years to make them as small as possible. The tiniest on record was said to ...
( Category: Plants & Animals April 5,2015 )
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 )
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 )
Life at the Zoo by Phillip T. Robinson
epub |eng | 2011-12-22 | Author:Phillip T. Robinson

Tapeworm life cycle in a zoo bear Wild animals frequently recover from a wide variety of infections and injuries during their lifetimes, although any serious injury can make an individual ...
( Category: Zoology March 21,2015 )
Sex on Earth by Jules Howard
epub |eng | | Author:Jules Howard [Howard, Jules]

I can still see them now, weeks later, in my mind’s eye. I can even see their maggot-like movements, and the circular frame of the microscope lens around them. The ...
( Category: Zoology March 8,2015 )

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