Animals

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion....

The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse traces the hard path of the Light Horse from the bleakest of starts - being deprived of their horses and fighting at Gallipoli in the tragic Battle of the Nek - to triumph and glory in the desert....

In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world....

Birds. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals. David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world....

The Earth provides a unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene....

In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited....

Written by one of the world's leading dinosaur experts, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a foundational work on the subject and an invaluable reference for anyone interested in these amazing creatures.

Can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature? Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum - reviving Darwin's own views - thinks not....

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes....

Voted the greatest English cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, Sir Ian Botham is the English game’s one true living legend....

This is the third and last of Sir David’s great natural history books based on his TV series and completes his survey of the animal world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet....

Collected together for the very first time, this is the complete series one and two of Life Stories, written and presented by Sir David Attenborough....

This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family....

Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals. This new book brings us closer than ever to these elusive creatures.

A spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening creatures.

Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal is the first and only audiobook to scientifically and experientially explain why horses have the extraordinary ability to emotionally transform the lives of thousands of men, women and children....

De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed....

No matter how cushy their lives, dogs live on our terms. They compromise their freedom and instinctual pleasure, as well as their innate strategies for coping with stress and anxiety, in exchange for the love, comfort, and care they get from us....

Jack Olsen's true account, traces the causes of the tragic night in August 1967 when two separate and unrelated campers, a distance apart, were savagely killed by enraged bear....

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....

In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favorite whales....

Have you ever wondered what your dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can! The answers will surprise and delight you....

Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary....

Journalist Gloria Dickie embarks on a globe-trotting journey to explore the eight remaining species of bears—and the dangers they face....

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean....

Abbraccia la tua anima ancestrale e impara dalla natura come vivere in equilibrio nel mondo di oggi. Dall’autore del documentario premio Oscar Il mio amico in fondo al mare. Al tempo stesso storia d’amore e di avventura, diario di viaggio, memoir naturalistico e guida spirituale, Intuizione selvaggia è la straordinaria testimonianza di come sia possibile recuperare una profonda connessione con una parte del nostro io che non siamo più abituati ad ascoltare, ma che può dare un senso nuovo alle nostre vite.

The Monarch Butterfly Migration focuses a wider lens on the effects of climate change and the tensions between advocacy and scientific accuracy. This book reminds us to notice the natural wonders in our own backyards.

Hoof Beats transforms our understanding of both horses and humanity's ancient past and asks us to consider what our relationship with horses means for the future of humanity and the world around us.

Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity on par with habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. Tackling this isn't easy, and no one knows this better than Hugh Warwick, a conservationist who loathes the idea of killing, harming, or even eating animals. Yet as an ecologist, he is acutely aware of the need, at times, to kill invasive species whose presence harms the wider environment.

Entdecke die faszinierende Welt der Schlangen! Dieses Buch bietet eine spannende Reise durch das Leben dieser geheimnisvollen und oft missverstandenen Kreaturen. Von der unglaublichen Artenvielfalt über ihre meisterhaften Jagdtechniken bis hin zu den größten Mythen und Legenden, die sich um Schlangen ranken – hier erfahren Sie alles, was Sie schon immer über diese lautlosen Jäger wissen wollten. Erfahren Sie, welche Schlangen giftig sind und welche nicht, wie sie ihre Beute überwältigen und welche Rolle sie in den verschiedenen Kulturen der Welt spielen.