Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (Animal Behavior)
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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
$17.95 Add to cartHow animals conceive of death and dying–and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality
When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, he- Author: Monsó, Susana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 069126077X
- Language: English
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Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us
$29.95 Add to cartFrom one of our foremost experts on behavioral evolution, an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, and other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselves
When w- Author: Zuk, Marlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0691264244
- Language: English
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Eavesdropping on Animals: What We Can Learn from Wildlife Conversations
$19.95 Add to cart“This book is fabulous and takes you close inside the wild world, where you feel the creatures whispering your old name.”–Craig Foster, My Octopus Teacher
Learn how to decode the secret conversations- Author: Bumann, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 177840331X
- Language: English
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The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
$30.00 Add to cartA brilliant new voice in science writing–“witty, whip-smart, truly one of our best” (Mary Roach)–shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science
Why would anyone research how elephants p- Author: York, Carly Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605217
- Language: English
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Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
$27.95 Add to cartThe astonishing story of how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves
Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature’s pharmacy- Author: de Roode, Jaap
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 069123924X
- Language: English
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Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution
$30.00 Add to cartOne hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin is still one of the most inspirational figures of the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned geographer w
- Series: Kairos
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1629638749
- Language: English
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Color in Nature
$35.00 Add to cartA marvelously illustrated guide to color in the natural world
Recent years have seen tremendous strides in the fields of vision, visual ecology, and our own multilayered experience of color in life an- Author: Marshall, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 691258619
- Language: English
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Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
$24.95 Add to cartHow dominant culture–from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more–has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can free ourselves from these limited perspectives.
In- Author: Kamath, Ambika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 262049635
- Language: English
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Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity
$27.50 Add to cart“Brilliant. . . . An absorbing read and a potent lesson in moral behavior–both of rodents and of humans.”–Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poison Squad – “A fascinating read about … [more below]
- Author: Dugatkin, Lee Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0226827852
- Language: English
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Is Anyone Listening?: What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a leading researcher on dolphin communication, a deep dive into the many ways animal species communicate with their kin, their neighboring species, and us.
If you could pose one question to a d- Author: Herzing, Denise L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 022635749X
- Language: English
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Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
$26.95 Read moreAs humans accelerate global warming while laying waste to the environment, animals and plants must flee to the margins: on scattered nature reserves, between major highways, or among urban sprawl. And
- Author: Von Brackel, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 161519861X
- Language: English
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The Social Lives of Animals
$30.00 Read moreA rat will go out of its way to help a stranger in need. Lions have adopted the calves of their prey. Ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is
- Author: Ward, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600835
- Language: English
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Eavesdropping on Animals: What We Can Learn from Wildlife Conversations
$27.95 Read more“This book is fabulous and takes you close inside the wild world, where you feel the creatures whispering your old name.”–Craig Foster, My Octopus Teacher
Learn how to decode the secret conversations- Author: Bumann, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1778400205
- Language: English
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Puppy Kindergarten: The New Science of Raising a Great Dog
$30.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling authors of The Genius of Dogs take us into their “Puppy Kindergarten,” a center to study how puppies develop, to show us what goes in to raising a great dog.
What does i- Author: Hare, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0593231325
- Language: English
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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
$29.95 Add to cartHow animals conceive of death and dying–and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality
When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, he- Author: Mons?, Susana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0691260761
- Language: English
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
$18.00 Read moreA 1902 collection of essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Originally published in “The Nineteenth Century” from 1890 to 1896, the essays examine mutually-beneficial … [more below]
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0241355338
- Language: English
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Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins: A Trip Through the World of Animal Intoxication
$17.95 Read moreFrom the cup of coffee that jumpstarts the day to dangerously addictive drugs, the recreational use of plants with psychoactive properties has a long history among humans.
But, as with many things, it- Author: Pagan, One R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 1950665372
- Language: English
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A Little Queer Natural History
$16.00 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature.
From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mu- Author: Davis, Josh L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0226837033
- Language: English
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Why Peacocks?: An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World’s Most Magnificent Bird
$19.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed journalist seeks to understand the mysterious allure of peacocks–and in the process discovers unexpected and valuable life lessons.
2022 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Longlist Selection- Author: Flynn, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1982101083
- Language: English
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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood that “is witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood … [more below]
- Author: Tucker, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1501192876
- Language: English
