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Camouflaged Wildlife: How Creatures Hide In Order To Survive
Artist/Author: McDonald, Joe and Mary Ann$35.00 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated book on camouflaged animals includes some of nature’s greatest designs and is one of the most remarkable compilations of pictures on the subject ever published.
From foxes to frogfish and owls to octopuses, some of the images have to be seen to be believed in terms of the subjects’ uncanny imitations of their natural backgrounds, which often aid them in their roles as hunting predator or as prey attempting to avoid capture.
Get an antelope’s-eye view of a lion, and marvel at leaf-like bugs and green lichen-covered sloths which blend in with their surroundings. Decades of work by award-winning photographers Joe and Mary Ann McDonald are distilled down into this stunning collection of images. -
Primate communities.
Artist/Author: Fleagle, J. G. et al.$40.00 Add to cartComprehensive and unique volume exploring the differences and similarities between primate communities worldwide.
Although the behaviour and ecology of primates have been more thoroughly studied than that of any other group of mammals, there have been very few attempts to compare the communities of living primates found in different parts of the world. In Primate communities, an international group of experts compares the composition, behaviour and ecology of primate communities in Africa, Asia, Madagascar and South America. They examine the factors underlying the similarities and differences between these communities, including their phylogenetic history, climate, rainfall, soil type, forest composition, competition with other vertebrates and human activities. As it brings together information about primate communities from around the world for the very first time, it will quickly become an important source book for researchers in anthropology, ecology and conservation, and a readable and informative text for undergraduate and graduate students studying primate ecology, primate conservation or primate behaviour. -
Nature’s great events.
Artist/Author: Bass, Karen, editor.$60.00 Add to cartShowcases some of our planet’s most spectacular natural events and the global climatic phenomena which transform entire landscapes, drawing in millions of animals and determining their fate. This work shows how powerful natural forces can drive chain reactions involving everything from microscopic organisms to entire tracts of rainforest. This book is to accompany a BBC television series.
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The homing instinct: meaning and mystery in animal migration.
Artist/Author: Heinrich, Bernd.$23.00 Add to cartA captivating exploration of the homing instinct in animals and humans, from the celebrated naturalist and author of Mind of the Raven. Having returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods, Heinrich questions the biology in humans of this deep pull toward a particular place, and how it relates to animal homing. Heinrich explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to amphibians, to pinpoint their home if they are displaced from it; and how the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. Most movingly, Heinrich chronicles the spring return of a pair of sandhill cranes to their home pond in the Alaska tundra. With his trademark prose, he portrays the unmistakable signs of deep psychological emotion in the newly arrived birds and the need for humans not to ignore their own biology. Also available in hardcover [stock id 36847].
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The secret language of animals: a guide to remarkable behavior.
Artist/Author: Benyus, Janine M.$25.00 Add to cartIn this book Janine Benyus takes us inside the world of the animal kingdom and examines the behaviour of creatures great and small in their natural environments. With a definite focus on Africa this book is divided geographically into five sections including Africa, Asia, North America, the oceans and the poles. The book examines and describes the behaviour of twenty different animals explaining basic behaviours, communication behaviour and parenting behaviour.
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The homing instinct: meaning and mystery in animal migration.
Artist/Author: Heinrich, Bernd.$35.00 Add to cartA captivating exploration of the homing instinct in animals and humans, from the celebrated naturalist and author of Mind of the Raven. Having returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods, Heinrich questions the biology in humans of this deep pull toward a particular place, and how it relates to animal homing. Heinrich explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to amphibians, to pinpoint their home if they are displaced from it; and how the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. Most movingly, Heinrich chronicles the spring return of a pair of sandhill cranes to their home pond in the Alaska tundra. With his trademark prose, he portrays the unmistakable signs of deep psychological emotion in the newly arrived birds and the need for humans not to ignore their own biology. Also available in hardcover [stock id 36847].
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Animal architects: building and the evolution of intelligence.
Artist/Author: Gould, James L. and Carol Grant Gould.$22.00 Add to cartFrom two of the world’s most distinguished experts in animal behaviour, this book is a creative and accessible approach to understanding animal minds through the structures they build. It masterfully investigates how the structure an animal builds reveals the inner workings of its mind. Beginning with instinct and the simple homes of solitary insects, and progressing to conditioning, the “cognitive map”, and the role of planning and insight, James and Carol Gould use the amazing engineering feats throughout the animal world to reach fascinating conclusions about animals’ behavioural capabilities.
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Hung like an Argentine duck: a journey back in time to the origins of sexual intimacy.
Artist/Author: Long, John A.$30.00 Add to cartDr John Long gives us a scientific but engaging look at how and why animals first became ‘intimate’ and where sex fits into the whole evolution theory. From the 42.5cm willy of the male Argentine duck to how snails and spiders reproduce – this is a fascinating book about, well, sex. Broader coverage of the evolution of sexual intimacy in the animal kingdom demonstrates that the gap between human and animal behaviour is not as large as many of you might have thought. Like an eagle up high looking down, such breathtaking views of evolution can only be appreciated by taking a very big step backwards from the primates to the primeval beginnings of our vertebrate line.
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Dazzled and deceived: mimicry and camouflage.
Artist/Author: Forbes, Peter.$28.00 Add to cartNature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world – including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes – have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature’s fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious – but how does ‘blind’ nature do it? And how has humanity learnt to profit from nature’s ploys? This book tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls.
Peter Forbes’ cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the dispute between evolution and creationism. -
Don’t shoot the dog: the new art of teaching and training.
Artist/Author: Pryor, Karen.$23.00 Add to cartThe principles of the revolutionary “clicker training” method. Eight methods of ending undesirable habits – from furniture-clawing cats to sloppy room-mates. The ten laws of “shaping” behaviour – for results without strain or pain through “affection training”. Tips for house-training the dog, improving your tennis game, or dealing with an impossible teenager. Explorations of exciting new uses for reinforcement training.
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Animals make us human: creating the best life for animals.
Artist/Author: Grandin, Temple and Catherine Johnson.$26.00 Add to cartThe author of Animals in translation employs her own experience with autism and her background as an animal scientist to show how to give animals the best and happiest life. Also available in hardcover [stock id 32004].
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Making animals happy: how to create the best life for pets and other animals.
Artist/Author: Grandin Temple, and Catherine Johnson.$25.00 Add to cartIn her groundbreaking and bestselling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to delivery extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life – on their terms, not ours. It’s usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals, but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals. Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals and zoo animals. Whether it’s how to make the healthiest environment for the dog that you leave alone in the house during the day, how to how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal emotions. This book is the culmination of almost 30 years of research, experimentation, and experience.
