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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 )
Three Among the Wolves: A Couple and Their Dog Live a Year With Wolves in the Wild by Helen Thayer
mobi |eng | 2004-04-06 | Author:Helen Thayer

A favorite game is to race full speed through the stream, dousing playmates along the way. We were delighted to see that the wolves didn’t mind Charlie’s occasional interaction with ...
( Category: Mammals April 5,2015 )
Marrying Off Mother by Gerald Durrell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The Jury The river steamer Dolores broke down — as river steamers are wont to do — midway between her point of departure and her destination at Meriada, a small ...
( Category: Fauna 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 )
Touching the Wild by Joe Hutto
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Joe Hutto

Bubba in prime condition the day he was killed by a mountain lion. Bubba, the next day. Boar, alone at last. Having somehow made it my business to observe these ...
( Category: Mammals April 5,2015 )
Raising Cattle for Dairy and Beef by Kim Pezza
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Kim Pezza [Pezza, Kim]

Some animals may appear weak, while others may only have chronic diarrhea. The animal usually will not exhibit any signs of fever. Although there seems to be no cure for ...
( Category: Fauna March 30,2015 )
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 )
Rat Island by William Stolzenburg
epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:William Stolzenburg

SURFBOARDS AND BIRKENSTOCKS Within two years of Bill Wood’s arrival, Croll and Tershy’s team had gathered two more linchpins to their Baja campaign. Brad Keitt had come to the team ...
( Category: Wildlife 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 )
Over the Farmer's Gate by Roger Evans
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Roger Evans [Roger Evans]

ON PREVIOUS occasions I have mentioned milk prices. Well, they are finally turning the corner. We haven’t exactly found the end of the rainbow but it now seems likely that ...
( Category: Fauna March 4,2015 )
The Philosopher and the Wolf by Rowlands Mark
epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Rowlands, Mark [Rowlands, Mark]

4 The first thing the theory of the social contract shows is our peculiarly human – or, more accurately, simian – obsession with power. The theory has a glaring consequence: ...
( Category: Dogs & Wolves March 3,2015 )
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 )
Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
epub |eng | 1993-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Towered cities please us then And the busy hum of men. Several years ago I visited India on a trip sponsored by Harvard’s Natural History Museum. My colleagues delighted in ...
( Category: Fauna January 29,2015 )

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