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1) The inner life of animals: love, grief, and compassion : surprising observations of a hidden world
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Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world with Peter Wohlleben's personal experiences in forests and fields. Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up....
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English
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"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...
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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...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Explores how animals understand the world around them through the eyes of three iconic creatures: dogs, birds, and dolphins. As we discover how scientists are pushing the animal mind to its limits, we'll uncover surprising similarities to, and differences from--the human mind.
6) Animal baths
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English
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Discover how all kinds of animals bathe in this playful exploration of bath time in the animal kingdom! Learn how tiny shrimp aid eels in keeping their teeth squeaky clean, and how schools of fish help sharks stay spic and span. Young readers will recognize their own bath time habits, and will love splashing and playing along in their own imaginative way. Simple rhyming text and vibrant, colorful collages by award-winning author and artist Bob Barner...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Hay quien obedece sus propias reglas; quien encuentra un especial placer en superarse a sí mismo; quien adivina lo que está más de que lo que ven sus ojos; quien prefiere volar a comprar y comer. Todos ellos harán amistad duradera con Juan Salvador Gaviota. Habrá también quienes volarán con Juan Gaviota por lugares plenos de encanto y aventura, y gozarán como él de luminosa libertad. Para unos y otros será una experiencia inolvidable"--cover...
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English
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"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,...
11) Spy in the wild
Publisher
John Downer Productions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
How different are we to our animal cousins? In this highly entertaining series a new generation of spy cameras reveals just how similar we really are. Each episode is themed around a familiar aspect of our own live, love, intelligence, friendship and mischief. Meet the elephant aunts who act as midwives, the bowerbirds gathering trinkets to impress the ladies, the hippos having pedicures, the monkeys getting drunk and disorderly, and more.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from...
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English
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"Do you like to dance?" asks the first spread of this book. "Honeybees do, too!" responds the next. In a rhythmic, question-and-answer style, children are introduced to seven playful activities that they share with other animals. Expanding on the science is a brief explanation of what the animals are actually doing and why - for them, it's not all fun and games! Join gazelles, gray tree frogs, marmosets and more as they play tag, blow bubbles and...
15) Is that a skunk
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When a skunk moves into Hotdog's doghouse and doesn't leave, Lucas and his family don't know what to do. But the more they learn about skunks, the more they accept their new neighbor. And when a chance encounter leads to a stinky situation, they are in for a surprise."--
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In The Secret Language of Animals, biologist Janine Benyus takes us inside the animal kingdom and explains the whys and hows behind the behavior of creatures great and small in their natural environments. Divided geographically into five sections-Africa, Asia, North America, the oceans, and the poles-it examines the behavior, body language, and patterns of communications of 20 animals from the African elephant to the plains zebra to the Adélie penguin....
20) Born in China
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Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Venturing into the wilds of China, it captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs.
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