Mammals
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Dan Drollette, Jr. [Drollette, Dan]

Cat Ba golden-headed langur. Depending on who you talk to, there are about sixty or eighty of them left. It was only discovered and named about ten years ago, in ...
( Category: Mammals September 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Barbara Natterson-Horowitz [Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara]

A typical morning in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park might look something like this: A chipmunk pokes a whiskered nose out of her burrow and scurries over to a ...
( Category: Mammals March 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Temple Grandin; Catherine Johnson

1. Communicate your results outside the research community. It's important to publish your research in peer-reviewed journals so knowledge doesn't get lost. But just publishing in journals isn't enough. Researchers ...
( Category: Mammals March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Andrew E. Derocher

A large black nose, some teeth, and a blur of white will be the last thing that thousands of seals see. In the Canadian Arctic, polar bears explored up to ...
( Category: Mammals March 25,2014 )