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1) The inner life of animals: love, grief, and compassion-- surprising observations of a hidden world
Author
Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a revelatory exploration of the diverse emotional intelligence of animals as demonstrated in stories about loving pigs, cheating magpies, scheming roosters, and rats who regret bad choices.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
11) Animals in fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What do animals do in the fall to get ready for winter? Nature photographs and easy-to-read text tell kids how animals adapt to changing weather in the season of fall"--
13) Friends
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book offers a photo exploration of unlikely animal friendships, which not only gives readers insight into animals but challenges preconceived notions about compatibility.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
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
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
America's favorite home humorist, Erma Bombeck, has the uncanny ability to transform the trivialities of everyday American life into rich, witty stories that capture the imagination and tickle the funnybone. In this best-selling collection of hilarious tidbits, she turns her talents to the animal kingdom: the behavioral patterns of the creatures in the wild and the couple in the duplex next door.
Author
Series
Hello reading! volume 9
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text depict the sleeping habits of animals and humans.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Would you care to match wits with a dog, an octopus, a dolphin, or a parrot? You may think twice after watching the segments in this NOVA scienceNOW episode. While we may not be ready to send pets to Harvard, the remarkable footage and findings presented here demonstrate that many animal species are much smarter than we assume and in ways we had never imagined.
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