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The Secret Language of Animals by Janine M. Benyus
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Janine M. Benyus [M. Benyus, Janine]

GROUP DISPLAYS. Foreground, clockwise from lower left: Flamingos begin their display by wagging their heads side to side, honking harshly. Next comes a grunting wing salute, a bottoms-up inverted wing ...
( Category: Mammals November 26,2014 )
Born Free by Adamson Joy
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-27 | Author:Adamson, Joy [Adamson, Joy]

18. Elsa’s Fight One morning Makedde observed vultures circling and, going to the spot about a mile downstream, found the remains of a rhino which had been killed by poisoned ...
( Category: Wildlife November 23,2014 )
A Cat Named Darwin by William Jordan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Jordan [Jordan, William]

9. Hospice Care THE WEEKS PASSED. Our bond deepened, grew more subtle. Things were good. One afternoon at the beginning of March, I was sitting at my desk, writing and ...
( Category: Animal Psychology November 23,2014 )
Killing Keiko by Mark A. Simmons
epub |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Mark A. Simmons

Boy in a Bubble Sadly, “I told you so” turned out to be the flavor of the first week of Keiko’s access to the bay. We saw a complete setback ...
( Category: Mammals November 23,2014 )
The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Yesterday's Classics) by Burgess Thornton W
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Burgess, Thornton W. [Burgess, Thornton W.]

This shows how he uses his spade-like hands in digging. At once everybody looked at Miner's hands. No one ever had seen such hands before. The arms were short but ...
( Category: Zoology November 23,2014 )
Cat Sense by John Bradshaw
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Bradshaw [Bradshaw, John]

CHAPTER 7 Cats Together Cats can be very affectionate, but they are choosy about the objects of their affection. This apparent fastidiousness stems from the cat’s evolutionary past: wildcats, especially ...
( Category: Mammals November 13,2014 )
El Mono Desnudo by Morris Desmond
mobi |es | 2009-07-17 | Author:Morris Desmond

Capítulo 4 Exploración Todos los mamíferos poseen un fuerte impulso exploratorio, pero en algunos de ellos es más decisivo que en otros. Esto depende en gran manera del grado de ...
( Category: Primatology November 11,2014 )
The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

Pointing Primates Nikkie, a chimpanzee, once showed me how to manipulate attention. He had gotten used to my throwing wild berries across the moat at the zoo where I worked. ...
( Category: Mammals November 11,2014 )
The Naming of the Shrew by John Wright
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:John Wright

Equisetum palustre brevioribus foliis polyspermon Chapter VI The History of Naming And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the ...
( Category: Mushrooms November 10,2014 )
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

12 THINK OF A BSL-4 laboratory—not necessarily AA-5 at USAMRIID but any among a handful around the world in which this virus is studied. Think of the proximity, the orderliness, ...
( Category: Mammals November 10,2014 )
What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People From Animals and Their Trainers by Amy Sutherland
azw3 |eng | 2008-02-12 | Author:Amy Sutherland

* * * There is a beautiful simplicity to the animal mind. Nature has designed animals to live in the moment. It’s not that they can’t think ahead or behind, ...
( Category: Animal Psychology November 10,2014 )
Catwatching by Desmond Morris
epub |eng | 1993-03-30 | Author:Desmond Morris [Morris, Desmond]

Why does a cat wag its tail when it is hunting a bird on a lawn? The scene is familiar to most cat-owners. Through the window they see their cat ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication October 27,2014 )
The Dolphin in the Mirror by Diana Reiss
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Reiss [Reiss, Diana]

6. Through the Looking Glass THE DANCER IN ME was quite captivated as I watched Presley perform a bizarre sequence of horizontal swirls. He was lying below the water's surface ...
( Category: Marine Life October 16,2014 )
Two in the Bush by Gerald Durrell
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

A Treeful of Bears ‘His form is ungainly – his intellect small –’ (So the Bellman would often remark). Hunting of the Snark The temperature in the cab of the ...
( Category: Zoology October 16,2014 )
Dog Sense by John Bradshaw
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:John Bradshaw

Darwin’s Dogs In his book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, Darwin used the domestic dog extensively to illustrate his ideas about the interpretation of animals’ postures and ...
( Category: Mammals October 15,2014 )

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