Animal Behaviour


Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
In the Shadow of Man
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Genius of Birds
Gorillas in the Mist
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
In Defence of Dogs
Wilding by Isabella TreeRebirding by Benedict MacdonaldSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonParasite Rex by Carl ZimmerFleas, Flukes and Cuckoos by Miriam Rothschild
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Richard Mabey
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.
Richard Mabey, Nature Cure

Why did Dodgson just stand there like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lions, you make a lot of noise, wave your hands around, throw things at them. Try to scare them off. You don't just stand there." "He probably read the wrong research paper. There's been a theory going around that tyrannosaurs can only see movement. A guy named Roxton made casts of rex braincases, and concluded tyrannosaurs had the brain of a frog." "Roxton is an idiot. He doesn't know ...more
Michael Crichton, The Lost World

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