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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite being conceived over two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed from parent to child today, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals still inform our judgments, but have they influenced our views of the animal protagonists as well? And, if so, is there any truth behind the stereotypes? Are crows smart enough to reason? Are pigeons so dumb they cannot tell the difference between painting and reality?...
2) Zoo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
790 pages. : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, from tiny wasps to lumbering elephants-and humans. It's time to leave behind the tired nature-versus-nurture debate. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, Marlene Zuk asks a more fascinating question: How does behavior evolve, and how is that process similar-and different-in people and animals? Drawing from a wealth of research, including her own on insects, she explores...
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces behaviors and instincts that allows animals to survive in the wild"--
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
i, 253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A discussion of animal survival in the hot season explores the ways in which animals make the most of the summer's short span by efficiently compacting most of their procreative and survival activities.
9) The bee book
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
DK's The Bee Book is a wonderful introduction to the humble honeybee: nature's hardest worker, and much more than just a provider of honey! Bees are incredibly industrious, brilliant at building, super social, and--most importantly--responsible for a third of every mouthful of food you eat! Find out how bees talk to one another, what it takes to become a queen bee, what the life of a worker bee is like, and more.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Kratt brothers activate their creature powers to introduce readers to different types of animal babies and discover how they survive in the wild.
Author
Publisher
Bullfrog Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"This photo-illustrated book for beginning readers describes the behavior of animals in the spring as they give birth, raise their young, and adapt to the changing season. Includes picture glossary and index."--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Parragon
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Animals have fathers, too, just like you do! Animal fathers play with their children and love them, too. Find out about these little fathers and the children they look after in this new classic picture book.
17) Lion vs. tiger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains facts about lions and tigers, comparing such aspects as their sizes, brain structure, and abilities.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans. To do that, he chose five animals and lived alongside them, sleeping as they slept, eating what they ate, learning to sense the landscape through the senses they used. In this lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the lives of animals, Charles Foster mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing...
19) Bad dog
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[24] : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, Tom is a bad dog. But he can be good, too! His family loves him no matter what"--Provided by publisher.
20) The possibility dogs: what a handful of "unadoptables" taught me about service, hope, and healing
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tour of the psychiatric service dog industry traces the author's work with unwanted shelter dogs before matching them with people in need, documenting her own partnership with a search canine while sharing uplifting success stories.