Ethology

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
King Solomon's Ring
On Aggression
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Other Minds
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
The Genius of Birds
Man Meets Dog (Routledge Classics)
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
The Spotted Sphinx by Joy AdamsonTomorrow's Sphinx by Clare BellChasing Cheetahs by Sy MontgomeryI...AM...CHEETAH! by Stephanie J. TeerThe Tribe of Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Books about Cheetahs
15 books — 14 voters

Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyIn a Sunburned Country by Bill  BrysonRed by Terry Tempest WilliamsTracks by Robyn DavidsonTrack of the Cat by Nevada Barr
Deserts of the World
117 books — 22 voters
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead GeorgeWhite Fang by Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonNever Cry Wolf by Farley MowatA Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans
Books about Wild Canines
166 books — 45 voters

Monarchs and Milkweed by Anurag AgrawalWild Migrations by Matthew J. KauffmanThe Homing Instinct by Bernd HeinrichFour Wings and a Prayer by Sue HalpernA World on the Wing by Scott Weidensaul
Animal Migration
40 books — 8 voters
GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. NelsonThe Snow Leopard by Peter MatthiessenInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonMountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane
Mountains and Highlands
118 books — 32 voters

Ptera Hunter
“ When we tell half-truths in an attempt to maintain social norms and values, we risk losing both our integrity and the maintenance of those norms. We have to come clean with our audience if we have any hope of getting their attention and keeping their belief in us. ”
― Ptera Hunter, The Wisdom of Loki: The Art of Lying in the Natural World

Robert  Wright
“ Альтруизм, сострадание, сочувствие, любовь, совесть, чувство справедливости — всё это скрепляет общество, и даёт людям основания для высокой самооценки. И всё это, как теперь можно уверенно полагать, имеет твёрдый генетический базис. Это хорошие новости. Плохие новости в том, что хотя эти качества в каком-то роде и осчастливливают человечество в целом, но они не сделали человека «хорошим» видом и не слишком надёжно служат людям до конца. Скорее наоборот, и теперь это яснее, чем когда-либо, как ( ...more ”
― Robert Wright, Моральное животное

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Books by animals, about animals, for animals
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