Zoology

From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Hidden Life Of Trees, An Eye-opening Exploration Of The Extraordinary Range Of Emotions Animals Experience...

The story of the discovery of a coelacanth, a fish thought to be extinct for seventy million years, and its study by an eccentric icthyologist is dramatical...

Farley Mowat. Includes Index.Categories: Science & Math Biological Sciences ZoologyPrimatology

"Farrand states the rationale for his procedure succinctly, leaving most of the pages' space for photos that are sharp and truly enough colored to be fully ...

A humorous guide to slow cooking mixes practical advice on preparing appetizers, soups, main courses, and desserts with entertaining stories about food, fam...

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

This anthology contains 37 articles published since 1974 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. While sequenced particularly...

“Lively and fascinating... The reader comes away cheered, better informed, and with a new and deeper appreciation for our amazing canine companions and t...

Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from fox...

The first scholarly treatment of ornithological dejecta, commonly known as bird droppings.Categories: Science & Math Biological Sciences ZoologyOrnithol...

lithe And Graceful, Mysterious And Independent, Cats Have Been Both Worshipped And Feared By Humans. Here They All Are, From Large, Ferocious Lions And Tig...

Phantom Parks is a hard-hitting and passionate examination of why our national parks are failing to protect the wild - and what must be done to reverse this...

Written in a style that should appeal to both the serious ornithologist and those merely interested in identifying a common species seen in the garden, this...

in This Gem, The Scientist And Noted Essayist Trains A Wry Wit And A Highly Perceptive Eye On His Two-plus Decades Of Observing Baboon Behavior In Kenya. ...

The PETERSON FIRST GUIDE TO FISHES features 220 common and conspicuous fishes of North America, with full-color illustrations and a clear, precise descrip...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that ani...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

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 Hi...

Product Description Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals ac...

The latest findings, brought vividly to life. This highly acclaimed encyclopedia combines authoritative, easy-to-read essays with exciting photographs sho...

Designed for a one-semester introductory course in Animal Behavior. Animal behavior is a broad discipline with investigators and contributions from diverse ...

the Most Balanced, Comprehensive And Current Animal Behavior Text Available.Categories: Science & Math Biological Sciences ZoologyAnimal Behavior & ...

This is a thorough revision and update of the highly successful first edition, which which achieved sales in excess of 4,500. The text serves as a comprehen...

A beautiful and surprising exploration of a phenomenon that is at once familiar and baffling: the mystery of why birds sing. KLIATT David Rothenberg is a...

Americans have an intense love for their dogs: thirty-five percent of American households owned a dog in 1994, representing a dog population of more than 52...

Unrivaled in its breadth and visual impact, this unique guide sets out to illustrate, describe, and explain the incredible range of creatures that make up t...

What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive th...

In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, arche...

Spend a year in the wilds of Alaska with the most ferocious of American mammals. From spring thaw through the endless light of Arctic summer, from the spect...

This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region, illustrating more than 600 of them in forty-seven fine color plates and...

Based On Three 'zines That Have Collectively Sold 35,000 Copies, A Parody Guidebook For People To Use To Teach Their Cats About Gun Safety, Abstinence, Evol...

The pioneering veterinarian and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dog Who Loved Too Much, and the national bestseller, The Cat Who Cried for Help...

Review\"One of Amazon.com's 2014 Best Books of the Year: Arts & Photography"\"One of nbc.com’s "Holiday Gift Books Span the Science Spectrum" for 2014...

This book introduces concepts from the field of behavior genetics at a level readily comprehended by upper-division undergraduates, or graduate students fro...

Covering the identification, biology and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, wood-shrikes, shrike flycatchers, philentomas, bat...

A comprehensive encyclopedia on birds with contributions by over 100 zoologists, covering all aspects of bird behavior, evolution and including reference c...