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Award-winning broadcaster, best-selling author and zoologist Lucy Cooke has produced and presented numerous natural history shows on TV and radio, and has been tipped by The Times as 'the next David Attenborough'. In this BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast under the title The Power Of..., she delves into the animal kingdom, exploring what gives certain species the evolutionary edge over their rivals.

The Atlantic grey seal is globally rare—there are fewer grey seals in the world than African elephants—and Britain hosts 40 per cent of this world population. Over the course of a year in their lives, Susan Richardson comes to know a colony of seals, watching as it is hit by storms in the autumn pupping season, experiencing sociable winter haul-outs and sympathising as the colony scratch and fidget through their annual moult.

Catherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy ponies who call this archipelago home. Over the course of her first year, she is welcomed into the rhythms and routines that characterise life at the edge of the world. When faced with personal loss, Catherine finds comfort and connection in the shared lives of the people, animals and wild landscapes of Shetland.

Veteran 'horse whisperer' and communication expert Grant Golliher has trained thousands of horses, many of which have been traumatised or abused, and can tame a wild horse to calmly accept a saddle and a rider in just hours—without the use of any force. Through his work, Golliher has learnt essential lessons about communication, boundaries, fairness, trust and respect—lessons that apply not just to horses but to humans as well.

Return of the Birds: A John Burroughs Wake-Robin Revival weaves more than 100 bird song field recordings into the timeless nature study, Wake-Robin. Burroughs wrote: “And what is a bird without its song? It seems to me I do not know a bird till I’ve heard its voice.” Listen to the bustling fields and trails just as he did 150 years ago. Experience the wit and wonder Burroughs encounters during his travels through the Adirondacks and rambles around the Capitol.

When the birds first called, Susan Fox Rogers was in a slack season of her life. The woods and rivers that enthralled her younger self had lost some of their luster. It was the song of a thrush that reawakened Rogers, sparking a long-held desire to know the birds that accompanied her as she rock climbed and paddled, to know the world around her with greater depth. Energized by her curiosity, she followed the birds as they drew her deeper into her authentic self, and ultimately into love.

Since 2013, Tweet of the Day has been a daily delight for early risers, with its 90 seconds of beautiful birdsong and fascinating ornithological stories. But what of the people who tune in to this avian chorus? In this collection, we bring to the airwaves the conversational voices of an array of wildlife enthusiasts, all eager to recount their encounters with birds.

50 Things to Know About Birds in Texas by author Mariel Ortega offers an elegant approach to finding the most beautiful and varied species of birds on the continent. Texas has an extraordinary geography, and there is a great overlap in breeding and wintering ranges for many species. The state is uniquely positioned to offer a variety of habitats with irruptive specialties throughout the year. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, this book provides an understanding of identification and life history of several bird species.

Revered as a symbol of fertility, sexuality, purity and childhood, beloved as a children’s pet and widely represented in the myths, art and collectibles of almost every culture, the rabbit is one of the most popular animals known to humans. Ironically, it has also been one of the most misunderstood and abused. Indeed, the rabbit is the only animal that our culture adores as a pet, idolizes as a storybook hero and slaughters for commercial purposes.

Verglichen mit anderen Erdbewohnern dauert ein Menschenleben nur einen Wimpernschlag: Kalifornische Redwoods können fünftausend Jahre alt werden, einige Quallenarten kehren ihren Alterungsprozess um und manche Bakterien sind sogar unsterblich. Molekularbiologe Nicklas Brendborg nimmt die Leser:innen mit in die entlegensten Winkel der Welt und die modernsten Forschungslabors; unterwegs zu den ältesten Menschen, zu Zombiezellen und zu Experimenten, die unsere grundlegenden Vorstellungen vom Leben auf den Kopf stellen.

When Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beach in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales might shed light on the condition of our seas. How do whales experience environmental change? Has our connection to these fabled animals been transformed by technology? What future awaits us, and them? And what does it mean to write about nature in the midst of an ecological crisis? In Fathoms, Giggs blends natural history, philosophy and science to explore these questions with clarity and hope.

I’ll admit I’m a romantic and heroic. But to be honest, it’s not my fault: it’s the fault of all the horses I’ve ever known. In my romantic struggle for beauty in an unromantic mechanical age, my horses, simply by how they were, and how we looked, and how we were together, although no more than a tiny broadside against the ghost ship of mediocrity of this crazy age, were some kind of victory just by the fact that we still existed. Horses inspire courage against hopeless odds just by their courage and beauty.

Kämpferisch, bezaubernd, eindringlich: Goulsons Opus magnum über die Bedeutung der Insekten. Insekten mögen klein sein, aber sie verrichten die großen Arbeiten auf unserer Erde. Sie entsorgen Abfälle, bestäuben Pflanzen, ernähren unzählige Tierarten und bereichern die Welt mit ihrer vielgestaltigen Schönheit. Dennoch wird ihr Beitrag kaum wahrgenommen und Tag für Tag sterben hunderte Arten aus. Was bedeutet ihr Verschwinden für uns Menschen?

Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee’s evolutionary ancestors—flying 100 million years earlier—and today, they are just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee, ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has forgotten how to hunt. For fans of Entangled Life, Other Minds and The Gospel of Eels, this is a book to upturn your expectations about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our natural world.

Do you want a fun way to keep your kids entertained while learning at the same time? Do you prefer they spend their time doing something besides playing video games or on electronics? Keep your kids engaged and learning with these interesting facts about arthropods. In this audiobook, you will find random yet amazing facts about spiders, crabs, beetles, butterflies, and many more. Did you know that a shrimp's heart is in its head, or that tarantulas can go two years without eating?

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.

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.