Animals

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion....

Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and beautiful original sketches. With boundless charm and wit, author Amy Tan charts her foray into birding and the natural wonders of the world....

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world....

In this first volume of his memoirs, then-newly-qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and he has no idea what to expect....

Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos....

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction.

When Chris McDougall agreed to take in a donkey from an animal hoarder, he thought it would be no harder than the rest of the adjustments he and his family had made after moving from Philadelphia to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country....

In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world....

David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. When his specimen collections were demolished, many might have given up....

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean....

The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....

James Herriot has now become firmly established and accepted as one of Darrowby's veterinarians. He's also married, and lives with his wife Helen on the top floor of Skeldale House...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way comes a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination....

Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park.

A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable true story of a six-year friendship between a oddly gentle wild black wolf and the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska....

For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery—whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist—has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. Each chicken has an individual personality (outgoing or shy, loud or quiet, reckless or cautious) and connects with Sy in her own way.

When Helen MacDonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted....

The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, now available as an audiobook for the first time....

Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients....

All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants....

Have you ever wondered what your dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you can finally know! The answers will surprise and delight you....

The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance....

Author Kevin Grange—former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton—comes face-to-face with North America’s most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos.

Somewhere deep inside, you know what your gift, purpose, and mission are. Boyd Varty, a lion tracker and life coach, reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize these essential ingredients in a meaningful life....

From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history....

Abbraccia la tua anima ancestrale e impara dalla natura come vivere in equilibrio nel mondo di oggi. Dall’autore del documentario premio Oscar Il mio amico in fondo al mare. Al tempo stesso storia d’amore e di avventura, diario di viaggio, memoir naturalistico e guida spirituale, Intuizione selvaggia è la straordinaria testimonianza di come sia possibile recuperare una profonda connessione con una parte del nostro io che non siamo più abituati ad ascoltare, ma che può dare un senso nuovo alle nostre vite.

Entdecke die faszinierende Welt der Schlangen! Dieses Buch bietet eine spannende Reise durch das Leben dieser geheimnisvollen und oft missverstandenen Kreaturen. Von der unglaublichen Artenvielfalt über ihre meisterhaften Jagdtechniken bis hin zu den größten Mythen und Legenden, die sich um Schlangen ranken – hier erfahren Sie alles, was Sie schon immer über diese lautlosen Jäger wissen wollten. Erfahren Sie, welche Schlangen giftig sind und welche nicht, wie sie ihre Beute überwältigen und welche Rolle sie in den verschiedenen Kulturen der Welt spielen.

La creatrice del profilo @filippotheonlyonered. Per diventare dei compagni di vita più consapevoli e instaurare con i vostri gatti una relazione rispettosa e ricca d’amore reciproco. Cassandra Sartori è la consulente in cultura felina che tutti vorrebbero per amica: simpatica, affettuosa, creativa e, soprattutto, autenticamente e orgogliosamente gattara.

Dieses Buch beleuchtet Irrglauben und Mythen über Pferde, ihr Verhalten und den Umgang mit ihnen neu und soll den Menschen zum genaueren Hinsehen, zum Reflektieren und zum Hinterfragen anregen.

Gorillas gehören zu den geheimnisvollsten und beeindruckendsten Geschöpfen unserer Erde – mächtig, intelligent und mit einem sozialen Zusammenhalt, der uns Menschen tief berührt. Dieses Buch nimmt dich mit auf eine spannende Reise zu den letzten großen Menschenaffen des Dschungels und eröffnet dir Einblicke in ihre tägliche Welt voller Herausforderungen, beeindruckender Rituale und feiner Zwischentöne.