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Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska Fourth Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781566121675, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
80 pp., 21.6x15 cm
The authoritative book on Alaska marine life",Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska" is a clear and concise look at all twenty-nine of Alaska's mammal species, including whales, dolphins, seals, walrus, and polar bears. Now in its fourth edition, this aw...
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£19,00
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Animal Personalities Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226921976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
520 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 12 halftones, 11 line illus.
Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals – from invertebrates to monkeys and apes...
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£42,00
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Wild Mammals in Captivity Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226440101, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
592 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 67 tables, 100 halftones, 39 line illus.
Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on "Wild Mammals in Captivity" as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a...
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£56,50
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Skijor with Your Dog
ISBN: PB: 9781602231863, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2012
318 pp., 25x15 cm
Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyone – and almost any breed of dog – can participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this po...
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£13,50
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Bones, Clones, and Biomes The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals
ISBN: HB: 9780226649191, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 26 halftones, 13 line illus.
As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attrib...
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£65,00
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Extreme Measures The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals
ISBN: PB: 9780226561233, ISBN: HB: 9780226561226, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 halftones, 97 line illus.
Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals – the most energy-inten...
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£37,00
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£102,00
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Amboseli Elephants A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal
ISBN: HB: 9780226542232, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 119 line drawings, 50 tables, 88 halftones
Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant "Nature's greatest masterpiece... The only harmless great thing". Their ivory has been sought after an...
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£65,00
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Elephants on the Edge What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
ISBN: PB: 9780300167832, Yale University Press, November 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and...
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£16,99
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Mind of the Chimpanzee Ecological and Experimental Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780226492797, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
464 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 31 line drawings, 19 tables, 144 halftones
Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that chimpanzees think, learn, and behave".The Mind of the Chimpanzee" brings tog...
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£51,00
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Wild Justice The Moral Lives of Animals
ISBN: PB: 9780226041636, ISBN: HB: 9780226041612, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones
Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German...
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