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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by F. B. M. de Waal
A Time magazine top-100 influential notable and the author of Our Inner Ape presents a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence that offers a revolutionary exploration of the intricate and complex nature of the animal mind.
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Zombie Birds, Astronaut Fish, and Other Weird Animals
by Becky Crew
Astronaut fish swimming in zero gravity? Fluffy little birds hungry for brains? Transformer butterflies morphing in midair? It's either a bad trip or one crazy safari. Becky Crew takes you on the latter by mixing serious scientific facts with lighthearted anthropomorphic stories. Each animal profile starts with a short, humorous day-in-the-life-of bit that leads into the real science of these really strange creatures. Becky keeps things fresh by mixing in her wit with the interesting facts.
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The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human
by John Bradshaw
An anthrozoologist describes the importance of valuing animals for the companionship they provide and discusses how an affinity for animals drove human evolution and has become an intrinsic part of human nature.
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Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History
by Eric Chaline
These creatures, great and small, have played central roles in the evolution of humankind, but they have remained at the periphery of our understanding of history. Whether it is an advancement in scientific knowledge, a trade war, disease and death, battles won and lost, or encounters with explorers in unknown lands, these animals have changed the course of history.
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What it's Like to be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
by Gregory Berns
A noted neuroscientist relates how he and his team taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner completely awake, an experiment that helped them discover what makes dogs have different capacities for self-control and value systems and a complex understanding of human speech, and which was expanded to other animals. By a best-selling author.
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Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences
by Mark Edward Siddall
The curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History takes readers on a perilous journey through nature where they will encounter the world's deadliest and most sinister creatures - some of which have beneficial poisons.
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Esther the Wonder Pig: Changing the World One Heart at a Time
by Steve Jenkins
Recounts how the authors reluctantly adopted what was supposed to be an adorable micro piglet that turned out to be a full-sized, 600-pound sow who eventually compelled them to buy a farm and established the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary.
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World
by Vicki Myron
Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
by Alexandra Horowitz
A psychologist and aficionado offers insight into the canine mind, drawing on current cognitive research to illuminate a dog's perceptual abilities and the experiences that shape dog behavior, in a report that also shares stories about the author's relationship with her canine friend, Pumpernickel.
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Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home
by Mikael Lindnord
The author describes how, during an adventure race in Brazil, a stray dog started tagging along with him and his team, and as the two crossed some of the most dangerous terrain in the world, he decided to take the mutt home with him.
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Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
by Daphne Jenkins Sheldrick
A conservationist who has dedicated her life to saving orphan elephants in Africa describes her relationships with late husband Tsavo Park warden David Sheldrick and a host of animals, including a dwarf mongoose, a buffalo weaver bird and the majestic elephant, Eleanor.
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The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna
by Michael Parfit
Documents the story of a young killer whale who after being separated from his pod befriended humans in Vancouver Island's Nootka Sound, a situation that led to conflicts between the government and the whale's friends while challenging mainstream understandings about interspecies bonding.
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Enslaved by Ducks
by Bob Tarte
Describes the author's move from the Michigan suburbs to the country and the unruly menagerie he and hs wife accumulated along the way--including Stanley Sue, a gender-switching African grey parrot; Hector, a grumpy Muscovy duck who likes sitting on shoulders; Howard, an amorous dove; and Chloe, a mallard who learned to limp.
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H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and his Girl
by Stacey O'Brien
Presents the best-selling tale of a newly hatched barn owl whose youth and injury prevented his release into the wild, describing the long-lasting friendship through which the owl and author developed a unique communication ability, in an account that also offers insight into owl folklore, abilities, and brain structure.
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