Animals

Field naturalists have observed the activities of weasels for centuries. Their descriptions were often accurate but sometimes misinterpreted the animals' behaviors and underlying explanations for those behaviors. "Organized natural history"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335482211Author Craig PittmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

One of the world's leading experts on horse evolution traces the origins, evolution, and diversification of the equines. Long domesticated, related to rhinoceroses, and descended from a creature the size of a hare, horses are a fascinating study in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888393357Author Matthew BilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane never expected to be a birder. She was a world-traveled journalist with no science background who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578502960Author Kathleen H KirsanFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Kathleen KirsanPublisher Kathleen KirsanWeight(grams) 1343g

The vast remote Tibetan steppe, the Chang Tang, is home to a unique assemblage of large mammals, including the Tibetan antelope, gazelle, argali sheep, wild ass, wild yak, wolves and snow leopards. This text is the result of the author's research into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643400570Author Nyx SpectrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bazaar Encounters, LLCPublisher Bazaar Encounters, LLCWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566477666Author John P HooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Mutual PublishingPublisher Mutual PublishingWeight(grams) 23gDimensions(mm) 147mm *...

The Namib Desert is vast, arid expanse of constantly moving gravel plains and dunes. It covers more than 31,000 square miles stretching the whole of the western coast of Namibia, into Angola and South Africa. The winds blow relentlessly and thick fog...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984811328Author Jenny NiemeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Bottlefly PressPublisher Bottlefly PressWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901897558Author States of JerseyFormat PaperbackImprint Societe JersiaisePublisher Societe JersiaiseWeight(grams) 200g

A welcome dive into the world of aquarium craft that offers much-needed knowledge about undersea environments. Atlantic coral is rapidly disappearing in the wild. To save the species, they will have to be reproduced quickly in captivity, and so for the...

Winner of the 2023 New Mexico-Arizona Book AwardReading the West Longlist for Nonfiction No animal shakes the human consciousness quite like a bear, and few compare to the giant short-faced bears that stalked North America during the Pleistocene. Even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578721866Author Ann SchaeferFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Backwoods PublishingPublisher Backwoods PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, J. E. N. Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. "Owned by a prosperous country and accorded the protection it deserves, it would surely not go the way of the Amazon...

Forest insects play important roles ecologically and economically. They pollinate plants, decompose dead plant and animal tissue, provide food for vertebrates, regulate pest organisms, and shape entire landscapes. Some are considered pests, while others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946390097Author Surya RamachandranFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...

Mullets (grey mullets) are a family (Mugilidae) and order of ray-finned fish found in temperate and tropical waters worldwide. There are approximately 80 species of mullet; these fish have been considered an important food source in Mediterranean Europe...

Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the twentieth century, in an increasingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312304065Author Malcolm MacPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249g

The Alaska Nature Set offers the best in wildlife and plant identification for The Last Frontier State. The set includes three Pocket Naturalist Guides to Alaska -- Trees & Wildflowers, Birds, and Wildlife -- and is attractively packaged in a cellophane...

Who can fail to be amazed by the transformation of a tiny egg into a caterpillar, then into a chrysalis, finally to emerge as a beautiful butterfly? This seemingly magical process is the life cycle of every butterfly and moth and is one of the many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615199327Author Danna StaafFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint The Experiment LLCPublisher The Experiment LLCWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343134Author Sandra PoucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780593133255Author Ed YongFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House Trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275530Author Richard ForteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Most people know of aphids as garden pests, infesting the soft green tissues of plants in vast numbers and killing them by sucking out the sap. Indeed, among the 4000 or so known species of aphids about 250 are pests, and in temperate regions several are...

Bridget MacCaskill has been observing otters for many years and studies undertaken with her late husband Don resulted in books and a film about otters and their environment. Otters are fascinating and delightful creatures but to watch them in their...

The bee is probably the most written about species after the human race. As so many commentators through the ages have discovered, here is far more to the insect than its biology and life cycle. In Praise of Bees explores bees' place in human lives and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101981634Author Kirk Wallace JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561649822Author Blair WitheringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

In A Certain Curve of Horn, veteran journalist John Frederick Walker tells the story of one of the most revered and endangered of the regal beasts of Africa: the giant sable antelope of Angola, a majestic, coal-black quadruped with breathtaking curved...

The contributors to this volume present research concerning the cognitive structures and development of nonhuman primates from a cognitive psychological perspective. The authors and researchers come to this project from the study of humans and apply...

This is nature writer Jan Wiltshire's second book, following the highly successful About Scout Scar. Cumbrian Contrasts celebrates the wonder of one of the most beautiful, diverse and precious parts of the British Isles. From the source of rivers high in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983357919Author Hal MarkowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Mauka PressPublisher Mauka PressWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 15mm

Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known as...

Written by noted entomologist George C. McGavin, this comprehensive handbook covers all 29 orders of insect as well as spiders and terrestrial arthropods. It's packed with hundreds of annotated photographs and illustrations to help you discern the many...

In this fascinating account of scientific study among forbidding wilderness, a husband-and-wife team describe their trek to the Kalahari to study the little-known brown hyena. The details of the scientific inquiry are provided while the daily challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561643356Author David S. MaehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...