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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by Bradshaw John
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Bradshaw, John [Bradshaw, John]

Owners’ opinions about their cats’ emotional capabilities The most common cause of anxiety in cats is probably the worry that their territory is likely to be invaded by other cats ...
( Category: Mammals February 13,2015 )
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Westoll [Westoll, Andrew]

Having demolished the margaritas and the beer, everyone heads for home. Everyone, that is, but Gloria and me. When I get back to my tent, I check on Toby and ...
( Category: Zoology February 12,2015 )
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-11 | 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 February 3,2015 )
Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen
mobi, epub |eng | 1969-12-15 | Author:Jack Olsen

∞ Lying in his uncomfortable bed in Granite Park Chalet, on the other side of a 9,000-foot wall of rock from the campers at Trout Lake, Dr. John Lipinski laughed ...
( Category: Mammals January 29,2015 )
Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

It was, of course, often done—but rarely said so boldly and without apology. In any case, Caldwell eventually found the eggs of the platypus (usually laid two at a time ...
( Category: Natural History January 29,2015 )
Dinosaurs Without Bones by Anthony J. Martin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-24 | Author:Anthony J. Martin [Martin, Anthony J.]

Was it from rocks of the same age as dinosaurs (Late Triassic through Late Cretaceous)? Did it come from rocks formed in a continental environment, such as a former soil, ...
( Category: Ichthyology January 29,2015 )
Seeds of Hope by Jane Goodall
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Jane Goodall

And Now “Superweeds” Monsanto has also created GE crops (soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, and sugar beet) that are tolerant of its own brand of herbicide, Roundup, now the most widely ...
( Category: Primatology January 29,2015 )
The Kingdom of Rarities by Eric Dinerstein
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Dinerstein

I wish the story could have ended here—an account of a triumphant recovery of a once common species made rare by humans but given a second chance. But Nepal soon ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 29,2015 )
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-09-01 | Author:Sue Savage-Rumbaugh [Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue]

In this important experiment, Sherman has been shown some bananas being put into a box on his side c a divided room with a window separating him and Austin. Austin ...
( Category: Animal Psychology January 29,2015 )
Zamba
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph Helfer

18 The next week passed in a blur. I couldn’t believe that Zamba and I were going to Africa together. But I should learn not to count my chickens before ...
( Category: Wildlife January 29,2015 )
Phylogeography of California by Kristina A. Schierenbeck
epub |eng | | Author:Kristina A. Schierenbeck

CETACEA OR “CETARTIODACTYLA” Although traditionally classified under the Linnean system as within Cetacea, molecular data firmly place cetaceans within Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates and sister to the Hippopotamus (Shimamura et ...
( Category: Zoology January 19,2015 )
The Curse of the Labrador Duck by Glen Chilton
epub |eng | | Author:Glen Chilton [Glen Chilton ]

EVERYONE IS ENTITLED to a bad day now and then. Once in a while, for reasons completely beyond your control, a day goes wrong from beginning to end. On a ...
( Category: Ornithology December 27,2014 )
Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-20 | Author:Frans de Waal

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 December 25,2014 )
How Animals Have Sex by Gideon Defoe
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Gideon Defoe

30. Whiptail Lizard . Scientific name: Cnemidophorus uniparens Classification: Phylum: Chordata, Class: Reptilia, Order: Squamata, Family: Teiidae Size: 15-23cm Distribution: California, Arizona Diet: Insects The position of men often seems ...
( Category: Zoology December 8,2014 )
Pleasurable Kingdom by Jonathan Balcombe
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Jonathan Balcombe

Chapter 7 TOUCH Making contact with pleasure …your life a sluice of sensation along your sides – D.H. Lawrence, Fish Few who have petted or stroked or belly-rubbed a domestic ...
( Category: Animal Psychology December 8,2014 )

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