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2) Familiaris
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble, again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin's Northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start, and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each other, elephants grieve for their dead, and prairie dogs name the humans they encounter. Human
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English
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"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
13) Leaving home
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Surveys the behavior of various young animals and describes how they eventually grow old enough to leave their parents.
14) Animal helpers
Author
Series
Publisher
Newington Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Explains how animals team up and help one another with obtaining food and protecting their territories and their young from enemies, and how man and other creatures get help, direct or indirect, from creatures such as the beetle, bumblebee, earthworm, ant, gull, and caterpillar.
Author
Series
Publisher
Adventure Publications
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Introduce children to the fascinating world of nature. Snouts & Sniffers features simple text and award-winning photography. The board book presents fun facts about various animal noses. It's perfect for your family's youngest nature lovers.
18) Animal abilities
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media, a division of Carson Dellosa Education
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Why does this bird sound like a car alarm? That's one of the mysteries you'll solve as you explore amazing animal abilities. Learn how turtles navigate, octopuses hide, and giant rats sniff out deadly land mines! Finally, be a scientist as you draw conclusions and make your own scientific study. What incredible abilities will you observe?
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dogs do it. Millipedes do it. Dinosaurs did it. You do it. I do it. Octopuses don't (and nor do octopi). Spiders might do it: more research is needed. Birds don't do it, but they could if they wanted to. Herrings do it to communicate with each other. In 2017 zoologist Dani Rabaiotti's teenage brother asked her a most teenaged question: Do snakes fart? Stumped, Rabaiotti turned to Twitter. The internet did not disappoint. Her innocent question spawned...
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the information-packed program, viewers will learn about the behavior patterns of all types of animals including mammals, birds, insects and more. From food gathering to mating, survival instincts and sleeping habits to social behaviors, the program shows how behaviors of each animal help them to adapt to different environments.
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