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Beyond Words
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Imagine raising an orphaned bear cub, carefully reintroducing her to the wild, then being welcomed back, almost daily, to observe her wild world for more than 17 years. Imagine visiting her in her feeding spots, watching her with her mates and her young, peering into her den, and, over time, observing the lives of all the other wild bears in her territory and surrounding ones. That is what happened to Ben Kilham.
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Best Bear book I have read!
- By Walking With Bears on 06-02-21
By: Benjamin Kilham
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The Wonder of Birds
- What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
- By: Jim Robbins
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically, draw us out into nature to seek their beauty, and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endeavors: learning to fly, providing clothing and food, and helping us better understand the human brain and body.
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Stories about birds with something for everyone
- By D on 07-24-17
By: Jim Robbins
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Gifts of the Crow
- How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
- By: John Marzluff, Tony Angell
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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New research indicates that crows are among the brightest animals in the world. And professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington John Marzluff has done some of the most extraordinary research on crows, which has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as on NPR and PBS. Now he teams up with artist and fellow naturalist Tony Angell to offer an in-depth look at these incredible creatures - in a book that is brimming with surprises.
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You Will Never Look At A Crow The Same Way Again
- By Diane on 06-30-12
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Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- By: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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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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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- By Nerd's-eye view on 12-06-19
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Monster of God
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
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For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above - so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem.
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Great book, shame about the performance
- By Shirzy on 05-23-18
By: David Quammen
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs - they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken - imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time.
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Amazing
- By paul on 10-26-17
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You
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- By: Dan Riskin
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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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Just a bunch of random animal behaviors.
- By Goddess on 05-18-23
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Our Inner Ape
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- By: Frans de Waal
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We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we?
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I loved this book
- By Ruth on 06-22-07
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Animals in Translation
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- By: Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
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Temple Grandin’s professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field. Grandin and coauthor Catherine Johnson present their powerful theory that autistic people can often think the way animals think—putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate “animal talk.”
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Wonderful, but I have a bone to pick...
- By Tango on 05-06-13
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Wesley the Owl
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Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoir Marley & Me a runaway best seller, biologist and owl expert Stacey O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn owl - and their astonishing and unprecedented 19-year life together.
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Maybe good for children
- By Michael on 12-15-08
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How to Be a Good Creature
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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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Enchanting Start To 2019....
- By Rory on 01-02-19
By: Sy Montgomery
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- Maureen Hall
- 01-05-16
A truly beautiful must-read book
This book is quite informative, well written and enthusiastically read. The author really helped me understand how much I've not understood about humanity through a better understanding of other species. This is a must read book for everyone. But for me it is a call to do some serious soul searching as to what my action item is based on what i've learned. I promise I will do something.
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- Kaysi12
- 08-27-15
Compelling read
There are only a handful of books that I ever reread but this will be one of them. The author has created a window to the world of intelligent and social animals.
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- zoolady
- 08-22-19
Wonderful!
This is a must-read for anyone who loves our fellow travelers on this planet, but even more importantly for those who still maintain that only humans matter. Carl's observations and the eloquent telling of them are by turns awe inspiring and heartbreaking, and so absolutely crucial for everyone to hear before it is too late.
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- Ina Davis
- 06-07-16
Wonder-full (as in filled with wonder!!)
This is a fascinating account of the history of, and relationships we have with some of the world's most endangered animals.
An amazing recounting of false beliefs, discoveries and the ensuing change in attitudes of many people worldwide. I'd like to say that we humans have seen the light and have the political will to change, but I fear that like the black rhino, human greed, and the desire for power will inevitably put us "on the eve of destruction".
I hope I am wrong.
EVERYONE should read or listen to this book- especially young people since they are our best hope for changing the world!!!
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- Kimberly
- 01-04-16
Many awe inspiring stories
This book is full of wonderful examples of animals behaving in amazing, and familiar behaviors. I love this book for its diversity of animal stories. I did not always agree with the author's positions, but still found the book to be, overall, rewarding.
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- Diane K.
- 03-12-22
Where science meets art
Safina’s writing is succinct yet poetic. That he can write about scientific finding so movingly is a true feat; the stories he tells — about other species, and human’s relationship with the natural world — are both fascinating and vital. Laypeople and academics alike will immediately be drawn into his stories.
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- HLE
- 11-05-16
makes you think
I really liked this book and hope many people will read it to understand animals better. They have intelligence and rich emotional lives.
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- atmwang
- 02-28-23
Animals as they are
This book read in the author’s measured tones brings an immediacy to the stories of elephants wolves and cetaceans and made me love them more.
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- Tristan
- 01-18-16
Passionate, beautiful, fascinating
The stories Safina tells are compelling and fascinating. One about a wolf defending her cubs against her violent big sister is heart-wrenching. The other wolves would usually side with the dominant female, but in this case, they take the young mother's side instead. It shows complexity of mind and social structure that just makes me want to learn more.
But by far the best part is his take-downs of some of the stupidest ideas held by behavioural scientists. Recognizing a red dot on oneself in a mirror proves whether an animal is conscious? No, it proves the animal knows how to use mirrors.
Dehaene's "Consciousness and the Brain" is a good follow-up to this book, because it goes a long ways to provide neuroscience data to backup what Safina is saying here. Higher animals absolutely are conscious and they lead complex lives—and we need to do so much more if we want to continue sharing a world with them.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-27-16
amazing. spectacular. astonishing.
this book is amazing. fantastic insights into the animal world that we are apart of!
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