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Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But given what we know about the mechanisms of evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all that the genes in your body care about is being passed on to the next generation? A biologist by training, Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves.

The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably little is known about the eel, even today. What we do know is that it’s born as a tiny willow-leaf-shaped larva in the Sargasso Sea, travels on the ocean currents toward the coasts of Europe - a journey of about 4,000 miles that takes at least two years. Upon arrival, it transforms itself into a glass eel and then into a yellow eel before it wanders up into fresh water.

Mama's Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying 59-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends offers a window into how deep and instantly recognizable these bonds can be. So begins Frans de Waal's whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates.

An unsuspecting family becomes involved in the search for a lost dinosaur in the hills behind their suburban home. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hunt a dinosaur? Come along with us on our quest! Experience the challenge of finding a real, local dinosaur that was forgotten for decades. California’s first dinosaur fossil was collected by a college student in the badlands of Irvine Ranch in 1927. And lost.

In SLITHER, science writer Stephen S. Hall presents a naturalistic, cultural, ecological, and scientific meditation on these loathed yet magnetic creatures. In each chapter, he explores a biological aspect of The Snake, such as their cold blooded metabolism and venomous nature, alongside their mythology, artistic depictions, and cultural veneration.

Do you want to know about the amazing birds found in Indiana? Do you want to know where to find them and be able to identify them? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you... 50 Things to Know About Birds in Indiana by author Rachel Horon offers an approach to bird watching specifically in Indiana. Most books on birds tell you scientific details about different species. Although there's nothing wrong with that, this book is one that will interest all levels of bird watchers and enthusiasts.

Why Elephants Cry is a fascinating frolic through the literature and evidence surrounding the use of unusual behavior of animals to measure and predict the environment. The role of animals, from the smallest ant to the biggest elephant, as predictors of environmental changes is framed around the climate crisis, which highlights the increasingly important part that animals will have to play in the future. Renowned biologist Professor John T. Hancock collects anecdotal stories and myths along with scientific evidence, demonstrating that observation of animals can be of tangible use.

Ruppel Shell follows the elusive eel from Maine to the Sargasso Sea, stalking riversides, fishing holes, laboratories, restaurants, courtrooms, and America's first commercial eel "family farm." This is an enthralling, globe-spanning look at an animal that you may never come to love, but which will never fail to astonish you.

Der Axolotl ist wohl einer der beliebtesten und zugleich auch einer der geheimnisvollsten Aquarienbewohner überhaupt. Nicht selten wird der Axolotl auch als der lachende Drache im Aquarium bezeichnet und auf diese Weise lässt dieses possierliche Tierchen auch die Herzen zahlreicher Kinder, aber auch unzähliger erwachsener Aquarianer höherschlagen. Zugegeben, auf den ersten Blick mag der Axolotl dem einen oder anderen ein wenig befremdlich erscheinen, dennoch erfreut er die meisten Beobachter über kurz oder lang mit einem dem engelhaften Lächeln gleichenden Anblick.

Das Halten von Schlangen als Haustiere ist ein kontroverses Thema, das oft zu kontroversen Diskussionen führt. Einerseits können Schlangen faszinierende Tiere sein, die einzigartige Einblicke in die Natur und die Welt der Reptilien bieten. Andererseits sind Schlangen auch Raubtiere, die aufgrund ihrer Natur und Größe ein potenzielles Risiko für ihre Besitzer und die Umgebung darstellen können. In dieser Diskussion ist es wichtig, zu beachten, dass nicht alle Schlangen gleich sind.

Together with his own life-changing encounters with animals around the world, Martin has celebrated the intelligence, loyalty, and companionship of some truly extraordinary creatures whose lives have been entwined with our own. By turns heart-warming, inspiring and always fascinating, Meetings With Remarkable Animals gives us a chance to meet them too.

Avoid getting eaten! Do you find yourself wondering: Do bears eat humans? Do birds eat people? Do kangaroos? Could I survive people eating predators of any kind? Perfect for anyone with a fun or morbid interest in wildlife or survivalism, Creatures That Eat People is full of stories of strange animals that eat humans and the situations that lead to it.

We are told that in Tartary, each native makes the iron he needs, just as every household would make its own bread. The furnace is a very small affair, not holding more than three pounds of ore. This is filled with ore and charcoal. The bellows are used, and after the charcoal is all burned out, the result is a small piece of spongy iron, which needs only repeated heating and hammering to be made serviceable.

The current view of science is that Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. The first four billion years of its development are known as the Precambrian period. For the first billion years or so, there was no life on Earth, and then the first single-celled life-forms, early bacteria and algae, began to emerge. It’s unknown where they came from or even if they originated on this planet at all, but this gradual development continued until suddenly (in relative geological terms), more complex forms of life began to emerge.

Growing up in Central Africa in the 1950's-60's was an exciting time. A boy that was mischievous and a dead ringer for the characters 'Dennis' or 'Huckleberry Finn' and inclined to be accident prone was a pretty good recipe for almost daily disasters. Here I present some of them, a laugh, a bit of horror, poignant love stories and near death experiences fill the book.

Kommunikation mit Tieren - Eine intensive Ebene des Kontakts. Viele Menschen sprechen mit Tieren. Unter Tierkommunikation wird allerdings eine besondere Form des Kontakts und Austauschs mit dem Tier verstanden: Die Kommunikation findet nicht verbal statt, sondern es handelt sich um eine Form der Telepathie oder des energetischen Austauschs auf gedanklicher Ebene. Es geht darum, die Sichtweise eines Tieres zu verstehen, wie es fühlt und denkt, oder auch, um herauszufinden, was es gesundheitlich belasten könnte.

In Extinction and the Human, Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them. He focuses especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison. Ultimately, he argues, it is the critical assessment of ideas of human exceptionalism that provides a necessary counterpoint both to apologies for human mastery over nature and deep ecology's attempts to erase the human.

From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman—a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds.

Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return to the ocean.

The New York Times bestselling author of Genome and The Evolution of Everything revisits Darwin’s revelatory theory of mate choice through the close study of the peculiar rituals of birds, and how understanding this driver of evolution complicates our view of even how human mating evolved. In Birds, Sex, and Beauty, Ridley reopens the history of Darwin’s vexed theory, laying bare a century of disagreement about an idea so powerful, so weird, so wonderful, we may have yet to understand all of its implications.