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Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
David Burnie, Don E. Wilson · back to the book
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Hide books by the same authorThe Animal Book
Steve Jenkins · 208 pages
Shares facts on over three hundred animals and offers a brief overview of the history of life on Earth. Dance with a blue-footed booby, or stare down an eyelash viper. But mind your step-- in the animal world, the name of the game is survival --
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones
Ruth Heller · 44 pages
A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs, including chickens as well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.
The Magic School Bus Spins A Web: A Book About Spiders
Tracey West, Joanna Cole · 32 pages
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do
Steve Jenkins, Robin Page · 32 pages
Feathers: Not Just for Flying
Melissa Stewart · 32 pages
An Egg Is Quiet
Dianna Hutts Aston · 36 pages
"From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, this poetic illustrated book describes the incredible variety of eggs and how they protect the young animals inside them"--
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
Dave Goulson · 288 pages
Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect our rarest bees. Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired bumblebee now only exists in the wilds of New Zealand, the descendants of a few queen
The Living Planet
David Attenborough · 320 pages
Book discusses and pictures life in various environments such as deserts, grasslands, oceans, and the sky.
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell · 384 pages
In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall · 297 pages
Goodall's classic account of primate behavior combines a landmark scientific study with a fascinating adventure story of a determined young woman's struggle in remote Africa to approach primates in the wild as no one had ever done before.
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
Frans de Waal, Frans Lanting · 200 pages
Most people have never heard of the bonobo, an intriguing member of the great ape family, despite the fact that bonobos are as close to us as their much better known relatives, the chimpanzees. Scientists are only beginning to explore the social life of the bonobo. Whereas chimpanzees are known for male power politics, cooperative hunting, and intergroup warfare, bonobo society is egalitarian and
Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine · 222 pages
An interactive multimedia exploration of the authors' trip around the world in search of endangered species. Contains the unabridged text of the book Last chance to see, a reading of the entire book by Douglas Adams, and over 800 full-screen color photographs. Allows the user to either read or listen to the book, to choose any chapter within the book, and to explore the many sidebars that provide
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Dan Flores · 271 pages
This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the wolf in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond i
Wolves
L. David Mech, Luigi Boitani · 483 pages
Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals, capturing the imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable, they hunt and play together in close-knit packs, sometimes roaming over hundreds of square miles in search of food. Once teetering on the brink of extinction across much of the United States and Europe, wolves have made a tremendou
Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
Dan Riskin · 272 pages
Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be and shows ways this deadly world has shaped us as humans and what our responsibilities are to this terrible, wonderful planet we call home.
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
Robert M. Sapolsky · 216 pages
A collection of original essays by a leading neurobiologist and primatologist share the author's insights into behavioral biology, including discussion of the physiology of genes and the factors that shape human social interaction.
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Carl Safina · 461 pages
"Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and d
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Bill Schutt · 350 pages
"Eating one's own kind is completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons relating to famine, burial rites, and medicinal remedies. Cannibalism has been used as a form of terrorism but also as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt, a research associate
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.
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
Christie Wilcox · 256 pages
Frogs
Nic Bishop · 48 pages
Nic Bishop's photographs show all different kinds of frogs, big ones, very tiny ones, frogs with beautiful colors of skin, and one frog you can see inside of.
The Avifauna of British India and Its Dependencies
James A. Murray · 424 pages
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
Tim Flannery, Peter Schouten · 192 pages