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The Octopus Scientists
- Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
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In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte
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What a Fish Knows
- The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
- De: Jonathan Balcombe
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 502
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 444
An underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior. There are more than 30,000 species of fish - more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined. But for all their breathtaking diversity and beauty, we rarely consider how fish think, feel, and behave.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Title misled me
- De Margaret Weidemann en 08-12-17
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The Dragon Behind the Glass
- A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
- De: Emily Voigt
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 219
A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish. An Asian tycoon buys a single specimen for $150,000. Meanwhile, a pet detective chases smugglers through the streets of New York. Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator dating to the age of the dinosaurs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for all fish professionals.
- De Fishgen en 06-26-16
De: Emily Voigt
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 555
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 478
The Log from the Sea of Cortez is the exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts. Drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, it is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Book
- De Stuart en 10-07-17
De: John Steinbeck
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to exotic creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. In The Galapagos, science writer Henry Nicholls offers a lively natural and human history of the archipelago, charting its evolution from deserted wilderness to scientific resource (made famous by Charles Darwin) and global ecotourism hot spot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
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Feathers
- The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Andy Ingalls
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: Aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Science and Fun
- De Chris Reich en 12-28-14
De: Thor Hanson
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The Founding Fish
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return to the ocean.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read and released.
- De Darwin8u en 11-14-14
De: John McPhee
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Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- De: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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The Beak of the Finch
- A Story of Evolution in Our Time
- De: Jonathan Weiner
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 372
Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are 400 at the time of the author's visit or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about 20 generations of finches - continuously.Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating in-depth look at evolution in action
- De Philip en 05-15-11
De: Jonathan Weiner
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Atlas of a Lost World
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 903
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 904
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Blaaaa
- De Josh NJ en 07-26-18
De: Craig Childs
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Wild Ones
- A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Jon Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The line between conservation and domestication...
- De Bonny en 04-02-14
De: Jon Mooallem
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The Thing with Feathers
- The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
- De: Noah Strycker
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, and other mysteries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, terrible reader
- De MGM123 en 03-16-18
De: Noah Strycker
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You
- A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
- De: Dan Riskin
- Narrado por: Dan Riskin
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just a bunch of random animal behaviors.
- De Goddess en 05-18-23
De: Dan Riskin
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
- De: Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- Narrado por: Renee Raudman
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 277
Elisabeth Tova Bailey tells the intimate and inspiring story of her year-long encounter with a snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, she becomes an astute and amused observer of the snail's surprising nocturnal adventures as it lives in a flowerpot on her nightstand. Intrigued by the snail’s clear decision making abilities, hydraulic locomotion, mysterious courtship, and molluscan anatomy, Bailey takes the listener deep into the life of this tiny amazing animal. With wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating recounts a remarkable journey of human and gastropod survival and resilience, and shows how the natural world illuminates our own human existence. Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction, the John Burrough Medal Award for Natural History, and a National Outdoor Book Award. If you enjoyed Wesley the Owl, The Guest Cat, and Marley & Me, you'll enjoy this unique interspecies audiobook listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an unexpected wonder. The quiet virtues of the snail reflect the quiet voyage of the author.
- De Frances en 08-03-15
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How to Be a Good Creature
- A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,068
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,068
Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and is informed by the creatures she meets. This restorative memoir reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals - Sy's friends - and the truths revealed by their grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enchanting Start To 2019....
- De Rory en 01-02-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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Plastic Ocean
- De: Capt. Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, which inspired a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative
- De Paul en 01-30-23
De: Capt. Charles Moore, y otros
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How to Be a Good Creature
- A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
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- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,068
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,068
Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and is informed by the creatures she meets. This restorative memoir reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals - Sy's friends - and the truths revealed by their grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enchanting Start To 2019....
- De Rory en 01-02-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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The Good Good Pig
- The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 309
A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uplifting memoir of a pig + autobiography
- De Diana en 04-04-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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Soul of an Octopus
- A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,524
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,135
Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect", about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. Since then Sy has practiced true immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eight legs and so much more!
- De Kirstin en 07-02-15
De: Sy Montgomery
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Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
- De: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Tamed and Untamed - a collection of essays penned by two of the world's most celebrated animal writers, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas - explores the minds, lives, and mysteries of animals as diverse as snails, house cats, hawks, sharks, dogs, lions, and even octopuses. Drawing on stories of animals both wild and domestic, the two authors, also best friends, created this book to put humans back into the animal world. The more we learn about what other animals think and do, they explain, the more we understand ourselves as animals, too."
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5 out of 5 stars
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It breaks my heart that we eat animals.
- De Antigone2 en 07-05-18
De: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, y otros
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Of Time and Turtles
- Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 34
When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles recovering from injury and illness. Endangered by cars and highways, pollution and poachers, these turtles—with wounds so severe that even veterinarians would have dismissed them as fatal—are given a second chance at life. The League’s founders, Natasha and Alexxia, live by one motto: Never give up on a turtle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming
- De nathan 0 en 09-26-23
De: Sy Montgomery
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The Lady and the Octopus
- How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology
- De: Danna Staaf
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was determined to experiment on living animals. And to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, she had to invent a contraption to hold them: the aquarium.
De: Danna Staaf
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How to Be a Good Creature
- A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,068
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,068
Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and is informed by the creatures she meets. This restorative memoir reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals - Sy's friends - and the truths revealed by their grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enchanting Start To 2019....
- De Rory en 01-02-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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The Good Good Pig
- The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 309
A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uplifting memoir of a pig + autobiography
- De Diana en 04-04-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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Soul of an Octopus
- A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,524
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,135
Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect", about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. Since then Sy has practiced true immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eight legs and so much more!
- De Kirstin en 07-02-15
De: Sy Montgomery
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Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
- De: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Tamed and Untamed - a collection of essays penned by two of the world's most celebrated animal writers, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas - explores the minds, lives, and mysteries of animals as diverse as snails, house cats, hawks, sharks, dogs, lions, and even octopuses. Drawing on stories of animals both wild and domestic, the two authors, also best friends, created this book to put humans back into the animal world. The more we learn about what other animals think and do, they explain, the more we understand ourselves as animals, too."
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5 out of 5 stars
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It breaks my heart that we eat animals.
- De Antigone2 en 07-05-18
De: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, y otros
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Of Time and Turtles
- Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 34
When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles recovering from injury and illness. Endangered by cars and highways, pollution and poachers, these turtles—with wounds so severe that even veterinarians would have dismissed them as fatal—are given a second chance at life. The League’s founders, Natasha and Alexxia, live by one motto: Never give up on a turtle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming
- De nathan 0 en 09-26-23
De: Sy Montgomery
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The Lady and the Octopus
- How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology
- De: Danna Staaf
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was determined to experiment on living animals. And to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, she had to invent a contraption to hold them: the aquarium.
De: Danna Staaf
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The Hummingbirds' Gift
- Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 2 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
As one of the most beautiful and intriguing birds found in nature, hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are capable of incredible feats, such as flying backwards, diving at speeds of 61 MPH, and beating their wings more than 60 times a second. Miraculous creatures, they are also incredibly vulnerable when they first emerge from their eggs. That’s where Brenda Sherburn comes in. With tenderness and patience, she rescues abandoned hummingbirds and nurses them back to health until they can fly away and live in the wild.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Barbara Handelman en 05-10-21
De: Sy Montgomery
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Other Minds
- The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- De: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,092
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,768
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,765
Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mischief and Craft
- De Darwin8u en 08-10-17
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Search for the Golden Moon Bear
- Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery's quest--fraught with danger and mayhem--to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her little known subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into a fantastic travelogue.
De: Sy Montgomery
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The Reasons for Seasons
- De: Gail Gibbons
- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
- Duración: 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Why is there winter in the Southern Hemisphere at the same time there is summer in the Northern Hemisphere? Here is an explanation of how the position of Earth in relation to the sun causes seasons and the wonders that come with each one of them. Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring comes again. Year after year, the seasons repeat themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatly enjoyed!
- De Marsh Family en 01-23-19
De: Gail Gibbons
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The Last Mapmaker
- De: Christina Soontornvat
- Narrado por: Sura Siu
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
As assistant to Mangkon’s most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman—and in a kingdom where the status of one’s ancestors dictates their social position, the truth could ruin her. Sai seizes the chance to join an expedition to chart the southern seas, but she isn’t the only one aboard with secrets. When Sai learns that the ship might be heading for the fabled Sunderlands—a land of dragons, dangers, and riches beyond imagining—she must weigh the cost of her dreams.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad
- De Amy R en 10-29-23
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What an Owl Knows
- The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
- De: Jennifer Ackerman
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ackerman
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 74
For millennia, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented more than thirty thousand years ago in the Chauvet Cave paintings in southern France. With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls are often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and foresight. But what does an owl really know? And what do we really know about owls? Jennifer Ackerman illuminates the rich biology and natural history of these birds and reveals remarkable new scientific discoveries about their brains and behavior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well researched work
- De Rubin en 11-08-23