Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Animals - Animal Welfare

What can we learn from watching animals play?a Dogs chase each other and wrestle. Cats pounce and bite. These animals may look like they are fighting, but if you pay close attentionOCo as world-renowned biologist Marc Bekoff doesOCoyou can see they are playing and learning the rules of their games. In Animals at Play, Bekoff shows us how animals behave when they play, with full-color illustrations showing animals in action and having funOCofrom squirrels climbing up a tree to polar bears somersaulting in the snow.a

Bekoff emphasizes how animals communicate, cooperate and learn to play...

Loaded with lots of color photos and friendly information you can trust, the ASPCA Kids books were written by animal lovers for animals...

"Raven and River "leads young readers on a fantastical journey with a raven across the icy Alaska landscape on the verge of spring. Along the way, the raven s sonorous cry wakes a cast of sleeping woodland creatures, including a bear, a beaver, a hare, and a squirrel all of whom join him in imploring the still-frozen river to melt and thereby initiate the change of seasons. Packed with information and featuring vibrant full-color illustrations by Jon Van Zyle, "Raven and River" brings to life these two important harbingers of Alaska s spring."

On the School Library Journal's Best Books 2008 list

On the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association YA Top Forty list for 2008

2009 Silver Birch Nominee

Good Zoos Bad Zoos

A large family of elephants ambles all day along a well-remembered route across the hot African savanna. Halfway around the world in a zoo in Alaska, a single female elephant paces back and forth in her cramped, concrete pen. During the sub-arctic winter, she lives alone in a dark barn.

As it plods great distances across the ice in the Canadian Arctic, a polar bear continually sniffs the...

Rufus is a little dog on a big mission. After overhearing a discussion about the endangered species list on TV, Rufus sets out on an assignment as a traveling reporter at large to interview endangered animals and to find out how he can help them.

Upon arrival in Africa, Rufus encounters Peace Hippo, who becomes his traveling companion. The unlikely pair travels to China to meet a panda and to India to meet a tiger. Then, upon their return to Africa, Rufus learns how the Massai are using their tracking skills to protect lions and how bees are helping elephants behave in Africa....

A non fiction introduction to the fascinating world of animal behaviour and animal welfare. The book begins by exploring how animals compare and contrast to each other before going on to examine needs that are common among all animals and how we can address those needs to ensure good animal welfare with a particular emphasis on pets.