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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
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Sy Montgomery · 261 pages
This awe striking, almost alien trip, draws us into the otherworldly watery realm of cephalopods --- except they aren't alien. Octopuses (not octopi, as the author informs) may arguably be as intelligent, as highly curious, and absolutely more dexterous than human beings. Sy Montgomery introduces us to these creatures with their fascinating and individual personalities.
Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality
Helen Scales · 274 pages
A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs of Indonesia, through the back streets of Hong Kong, and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome. Over tim
The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
Richard Ellis · 322 pages
"An authoritative look at the biology and mythology of the world's most elusive sea creature".--Jacket.
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
Wendy Williams · 222 pages
In addition to squid, both giant and otherwise, Kraken examines other cephalopods, including the octopus and cuttlefish.
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
Susan Casey · 302 pages
Through dolphins, we can see the best and worst of mankind. On average, seventy four dolphins wash up on the Gulf of Mexico's north shore every year. In the first half of 2012, there were eight hundred and ninety-one of them, with stillborn baby dolphins washing up at ten times the average yearly rate. The cause? BP's disastrous oil spill in 2010. For decades mankind's actions have led to the deat
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith · 272 pages
"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sproute
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
David Kirby · 469 pages
A scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of America's most beloved marine mammal park. It centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the story of marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the United States, Naomi Rose, the author tells the s
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Carl Zimmer · 298 pages
A look inside the often hidden world of parasites turns the clock back to the beginning of life on Earth to answer key questions about these highly evolved and resilient life forms.
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
Bernd Heinrich · 408 pages
In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award - winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest, letting one clue lead to the next. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well a
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
Katherine Roy · 46 pages
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers · 320 pages
In the tradition of Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks, and Neil Shubin, cardiologist and psychiatrist Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Bowers look at the remarkable correspondences between the way human beings and animals live, die, get sick, and heal in their natural settings.
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Frans de Waal · 304 pages
A renowned primatologist argues that ethical behavior witnessed in animals is the evolutionary and biological origin of human fairness and explains that morality has more to do with natural instincts than with religion.
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 488 pages
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
Virginia Morell · 291 pages
This book explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin, or an elephant? Do they experience thoughts that are similar to ours, or have feelings of grief and love? These are tough questions, but scientists are
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
Olivia Judson · 320 pages
Do your genitals explode? Are you 200,000 times smaller than your mate? Do you drug your lover with a potion that keeps her faithful? You may not get up to such tricks, but some creatures do: sex is one of the most powerful forces in nature, and generates an astounding diversity of forms and behaviors. But why? Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation explores the science of sex, considering eve
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Edward O. Wilson · 708 pages
Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again
Juliana Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
Samantha Weinberg · 240 pages
"Just before Christmas 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the young curator of a small South African museum, spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes, and remarkable limb-like fins - unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up w
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Robert M. Sapolsky · 305 pages
The author offers a memoir of his two decades in the field studying Kenyan baboons as he describes the members of the baboon troop and their behavior and his interaction with the neighboring Masai tribe.
The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales
Diane Ackerman · 256 pages
The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson · 237 pages
Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times best-seller list, where it enjoyed wide attention for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It remained on the list for more than a year and a h