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Breathless is story of SARs-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a “forever virus,” destined to circulate among humans and bedevil us endlessly, in one variant form or another.

Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex marketplace.

Think of a platypus: they lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), they produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs and they can detect electricity. Or a wombat: their teeth never stop growing, they poo cubes and they defend themselves with reinforced rears. Platypuses, possums, wombats, echidnas, devils, kangaroos, quolls, dibblers, dunnarts, kowaris: Australia has some truly astonishing mammals with incredible, unfamiliar features. But how does the world regard these creatures? And what does that mean for their conservation?

A list of 100 chicken breeds and a description of each for beginners, going into raising chickens for eggs, raising chickens for meat, backyard hens, roosters, and their origin. Brown layers, colored layers, white layers, meat breeds, and more!

It was pure serendipity that we went on an African safari, but we are forever grateful that we did. We combined a visit with my brother and sister-in-law, a doctor and nurse volunteering at a hospital in Uganda, with a safari to Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Meet the many different and interesting people we encountered on safari and learn about the fabulous eco-lodges we stayed at. Travel with us across East Africa in small planes and safari cars for the many wonderful experiences that made this the trip-of-a-lifetime for us and our friends.

Nesse livro, Peter Wohlleben compartilha conosco fascinantes histórias sobre as emoções, os sentimentos e a inteligência dos animais que nos cercam. Através de casos impressionantes de porcos leais, pássaros que traem as companheiras e galos conspiradores, ele mescla recentes descobertas científicas à própria experiência como engenheiro florestal para mostrar como os animais interagem com o mundo. Você vai ver que embora sejam diferentes de nós de muitas formas impressionantes, eles são, ao mesmo tempo, mais parecidos conosco do que poderíamos imaginar.

Stany Nyandwi’s gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall has called him a “chimpanzee whisperer.” His skills and devotion to these creatures—our closest living relatives, with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA—have earned him international awards and sent him on travels within Africa and around the world. But he began life in poverty, born and raised in a dirt-floor, straw-roofed hut in rural Burundi. The Chimpanzee Whisperer is the story of his astonishing life journey.

Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very well ask them. In fact, scientists haven’t been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do, let alone how to study them. Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and mental illness. In The Nature of the Beast, pioneering neuroscientist David J. Anderson describes a new approach to solving this problem.

Kein anderes Tier wird häufiger verspeist, und auch sprachlich werden das Schwein, die Sau und das Ferkel oft und gern in den Mund genommen: Als Ausdruck unverdienten Glücks und fehlender Manieren, als Schimpfwort für Zeitgenossen und das kapitalistische System. Der Kulturwissenschaftler Thomas Macho verfolgt die Karriere des Borstentiers vom früh domestizierten und später von Hirten gehütetem Nutztier zum Fleisch- und Allegorienlieferanten Nummer eins.

Eulen gehören mit ihren gut 200 Unterarten zu den faszinierendsten Spezies der gesamten Vogelwelt. Von allen anderen Vögeln als Raubtier gefürchtet, von den Menschen als Symbol der Weisheit verklärt und zugleich als Todesbote verdammt, verdient die "Königin der Nacht" eine genaue, Betrachtung. Desmond Morris verfolgt ihre Spuren abergläubischer Bedeutung in den verschiedenen Zeiten, Kulturen und Künsten und beleuchtet die realen Lebensgewohnheiten dieses Vogels, der immer noch als seltsamer Kauz missverstanden wird.

Join the Nicholson family for this heartwarming journey through a typical springtime on their South Yorkshire farm. Throughout the book, they reflect on the childhood stories, testing times, poignant memories and enriching experiences that have shaped the lives they lead today. With the coming of a new season, Roger and Cynthia Nicholson and their sons Richard, Robert and David show how the farming year is shaped around the arrival of baby goats, lambs, calves and piglets galore.

Natalie O'Rourke was an ordinary little girl from Birmingham in all respects save one: she was lonely. When she discovered how much she loved horses, she decided she wanted to grow up and run a riding stables. She wanted her stables to cater for children and adults with disabilities, additional needs and anyone who needed a friend—people who you might not expect to find riding, but who she knew could find happiness through horses, because she had.

Jimmy's Farm turns 20 years old in 2022. From starting out with rare breed pigs and a farm shop, Jimmy and his wife, Michaela, have grown the business over the years and the farm is now licensed to operate as a wildlife park. Tales from Jimmy's Farm follows a year in the life of the farm. The narrative traces the seasons as Jimmy documents what it means to live on a farm and what each day holds for him, his wife and four young daughters, the land he is farming and the animals in his care.

Packed with everything you need to know to raise and care for your dog the pack leader’s way, this audiobook is based on the revolutionary teachings of the Mexican-American “Leader of the Pack” Cesar Millan and the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz, also known as “The Father of Pack Leadership”, contained in the first three volumes of The Pack Leader Training Series by Al Parr.

Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or “exotic” birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann introduces listeners to the joys of birding right where they are.

Forever Wild, Forever Home invites listeners to discover the magic of The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado, the premier large carnivore sanctuary in the world. In 1980, Pat Craig rescued a baby jaguar he christened Freckles and took his first bold steps on a 40-year journey to combat the growing crisis of exotic animal captivity, abuse, and trafficking - one rescue at a time. Today more than 200 bears, 60 African lions, and 70 tigers, as well as jaguars, leopards, mountain lions, wolves, and other exotic animals, enjoy peace, comfort, and contentment.

No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly 30 years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species - up close as never before. A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living on the edges of their community, engaging in an improbable, awe-inspiring interspecies dance and bringing the wild into sharp focus.

Looking to the skies above, we have variously worshipped them as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves in their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight and, more recently, attempted to protect them. Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg-collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.

No other group of animals has had such a complex and lengthy relationship with humankind as birds. They have been kept in cages as pets, taught to speak and displayed as trophies. More practically, they have been used to tell the time, predict the weather, foretell marriages, provide unlikely cures for ailments, convey messages and warn of poisonous gases. When There Were Birds is a social history of Britain that charts the complex connections between people and birds, set against a background of changes in the landscape and evolving tastes, beliefs and behaviours.

Carl Safina, Meeresbiologe und Autor des internationalen Bestsellers "Die Intelligenz der Tiere", nimmt seine Leserinnen und Leser in die Lebenswelten von Tieren mit, die an den wenigen noch verbliebenen wilden Orten der Erde zu Hause sind. In ergreifenden Geschichten erfahren wir, was Tiere tun, warum sie es tun und wie sich das Leben für sie anfühlt. Manche Menschen halten Kultur ausschließlich für eine menschliche Errungenschaft. Doch das ist falsch: Auch Tiere sind nicht allein durch ihre Gene zu dem geworden, was sie sind.