A journey into the the wild and haunting world of animals...

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Humans and dolphins have a unique bond. We know that dolphins are highly intelligent, intensely sociable beings who recognize their own reflections, introduce themselves by name, form close friendships, communicate constantly, feel despondent, rescue one another (and humans), deduce, infer, throw tantrums, gossip, joke, and scheme. Many who have swum with them describe the experience as life-changing. They are heralded as magical creatures, and yet we force them into starring roles at theme parks, trade them on the black market and put them to slaughter. Voices in the Ocean is at once a celebration of these beloved animals and a devastating chronicle of the damage wrought when human and dolp... [more]( [The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants]( [The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants]( Save 32% ($7.41) $15.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $23.40 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival - dangerous and unpredictable, they would be killed if Anthony wouldn't take them in. As Anthony risked his life to create a bond with the troubled elephants and persuade them to stay on his reserve, he came to realize what a special family they were, from the wise matriarch Nana, who guided the herd, to her warrior sister Frankie, always ready to see off any threat, and their children who fought so hard to survive. With unforgettable characters and exotic wil... [more]( [An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants]( [An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants]( Save 56% ($17.46) $13.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! 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Elsewhere: $39.99 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Roosters that deceive their hens? Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head?From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals takes us microscopic levels of observation to the big philosophical, ethical and scientific questions. We hear the stories of a grateful humpback whale, of a hedgehog who has nightmares, and of a magpie who commits adultery; we meet bees that plan for the future, pigs who learn their own names and crows that go tobogganing for fun. And at last we find ou... [more]( [When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals]( [When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals]( Save 51% ($17.62) $16.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $34.61 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Arguments that animals possess an emotional life are often dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. This book challenges that notion by proposing that the objective scientific evidence for human emotions is all but non-existent. Thus, if the whole of our human psychological understanding rests on reflective inferences, why are the same criteria considered invalid for animals? [Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?]( [Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?]( Save 44% ($13.26) $16.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $30.25 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future-all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos... [more]( [Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells]( [Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells]( Save 34% ($8.88) $16.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $25.87 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. 'A rewarding glimpse of another world' THE GUARDIAN Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most ancient and successful animals on the planet, and they have fascinating tales to tell. Spirals in Time charts the course of shells through history, from the first jewelry and the oldest currencies through to their use as potent symbols of sex and death, prestige and war, not to mention a nutritious (and tasty) source of food. In this book, Helen Scales leads us on a journey into the realm of these undersea marvels. She goes in search of everything from snails that 'fly' underwater to octopuses accused of stealing shells and gia... [more]( [Ten Million Aliens]( [Ten Million Aliens]( Save 39% ($12.65) $19.95 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $32.60 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven't had sex for millions of years and creatures called water bears: you can boil them, freeze them and fire them off into space without killing them.In this breathtakingly audacious book, Simon Barnes opens our eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on. [Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life]( [Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life]( Save 26% ($7.91) $21.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $29.90 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself - a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared.Tracking the mind's fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous molluscs who would later abandon their shell... [more]( [Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel]( [Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel]( Save 24% ($7.81) $24.64 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $32.45 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out t... [more]( [The Secret Life of Flies]( [The Secret Life of Flies]( Save 6% ($1.61) $27.32 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $28.93 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. In The Secret Life of Flies entomologist Erica McAlister gets under the wings of these crucial creatures as she adventures into the land of the fly. From hungry herbivores and precocious pollinators to robber flies, dance flies and the much maligned mosquito, she describes the different types of fly, their unique and often unusual characteristics, and the unpredictable nature of their daily life.Erica travels from the drawers of wonder at the Natural History Museum, London to the mountains of Peru, via underground caves, smelly latrines and the English country garden. She discovers flies without wings, eyes on stalks, rotating genitalia and the terrible hairy fly, while pausing along the way... [more]( [What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World]( [What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World]( Save 27% ($5.12) $13.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $19.11 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of "working dogs"--pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead--as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which "The" "New York Times "calls" ""a fascinating, deeply reported journey into the...amazing things dogs can do with their noses." There are thousands of working dogs all over the US and beyond with incredible abilities--they can find missing people, detect drugs and bombs, pinpoint unmarked graves of Civil War soldiers, or even find drowning victims more than two hundred feet below the surface of a lake. These abilities ... [more]( [National Geographic the Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals]( [National Geographic the Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals]( Save 45% ($27.00) $32.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! 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Elsewhere: $26.94 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Wilcox takes us from the coast of Indonesia to the rain forests of Peru in search of the secrets of these mysterious animals. We encounter jellyfish that release microscopic venom-packed darts known to kill humans in just two minutes, a two-inch caterpillar with toxic bristles that trigger hemorrhaging throughout the body, and a stunning blue-ringed octopus with saliva capable of inducing total paralysis. How could an animal as simple as a jellyfish evolve such an intricate, deadly poison? And how can a snake possess enzymes that tear through tissue yet leave its own body unscathed? Wilcox meets the fearless scientists who often risk their lives studying these lethal beasts to find out, and ... [more]( [A Sting in the Tale, A]( [A Sting in the Tale, A]( Save 53% ($17.42) $15.60 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $33.02 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. 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[more]( [A Plea For The Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion]( [A Plea For The Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion]( Save 15% ($4.94) $26.97 [Pre Order]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $31.91 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans--and an eloquent plea for animal rights. Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire. 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