Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> Animals - General

It's that magical time of year again. When the world stops spinning for a moment and we breathe a collective sigh as peace reins on Earth and there is good will towards men. They say a dog is a man's best friend, and I totally agree, but I also think that cats, pigs, horses, birds and even snakes can be added to that best friends list. If you are an animal lover like me, you will see the beauty in every animal. As the Holiday Season nears I wanted to take the time to honor the furry angels in our lives for I do not think they get enough credit, after all they have to put up with the biggest...

There are more than 36,000 described species in the family Cerambycidae in the world. With the significant increase of international trade in the recent decades, many cerambycid species have become major plant pests outside their natural distribution range, causing serious environmental problems at great cost. Cerambycid pests of field, vine, and tree crops and of forest and urban trees cost billions of dollars in production losses, damage to landscapes, and management expenditures worldwide.

Cerambycidae of the World: Biology and Pest Management...

The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have complex, deep, and dependent relationships with the animals in our ecosystems. In Displaying Death and Animating Life, Jane C. Desmond puts those human-animal relationships under a multidisciplinary lens, focusing on the less obvious, and revealing the individualities and subjectivities of the real animals in our everyday lives.

Desmond,...

The book represents a compilation of papers on Ruminant Livestock production technology as well as the social policy initiatives required to enhance technology adoption in developing countries. The essential thesis of the book is that livestock production particularly in small island developing states is stymied more by the prevailing unfavourable economic environment than by the adverse affects of climate; the latter which has largely been mitigated by technological advances.The remedy is therefore to be found in creating a policy environment favourable to technology uptake by livestock...

"Animal Tails" is a lively rhyming book that will delight young children with guessing games and adorable animals. Kids will engage critical thinking as they playfully make predictions about tails of many textures, patterns, shapes, and uses. This book is sure to be a favorite chant-along at home or at school. Reviewed by Wendi Olsen, M.A. Writer and Educator, Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Millie Wingler, M.A., Ed. Early Childhood Elementary Education stated, "This book will delight my preschool and kindergarten students. This "tale of tails" will be added to my school library for...

In the busy world we live in today many people don't make nature a part of their life. There are many things to be experienced that you wouldn't get to see on a nature show on TV. Walk with Luther Bryant Jr. on a journey through his fascinating experiences with nature. You might find the urge to get out in nature yourself

I'm often asked, "where do you hunt?" Here's the answer for elk hunting in Colorado with clues to other states. Over 250 elk hunting hotspots delineated by simplified maps from decades of aerial and on the ground research costing millions of dollars.

A beautifully illustrated collection of fascinating, surprising, and funny facts about extinct animals.
In the past, amazing and strange animals roamed the earth, including giant sea scorpions, tiny horses, enormous sloths, and fierce "terror birds." These and many more fantastic extinct animals are illustrated in this whimsical collection by Swedish artist Maja Safstrom.

They are famously fat--cumbersome, lethargic, and oddly charming for the way they lounge around half-submerged in muddy pools all day. Hippos are gregarious herbivores that don't much like the heat, but as Edgar Williams shows in this colorful book, they can also be quite ill-tempered, and their huge mouths, sharp tusks, and powerful jaws can cut a small boat right in half. Taking readers into the swampy lands of Africa--as well as a few other surprising places--Hippopotamus tells the story of these iconic lumbering beasts.

As Williams recounts, while Hippos are only found in...

There is no question that former boxer Lenny Bilski, Jr. has seen his share of hard times. But in his collection of humorous anecdotes with accompanying photographs, Bilski provides a different look at life through the eyes of a pest control specialist who has climbed on roofs, through attics, and into crawl spaces to capture creatures with a mind of their own.

From flying squirrels to skunks to a wild snake, Bilski has seen it all. His stories highlight such hilarious experiences as the obsessive neat freak who could only helplessly watch as Bilski chased a crazed squirrel...

This book contains a story of a dog named Sophie; an eight-year-old female bichon frise with glamorous good looks and a charming personality. This little "powder puff" of a dog is extremely intelligent and responds almost as if she is human. In the community where she resides, Sophie loves everybody, and everybody loves her.

This book contains a story of a dog named Sophie; an eight-year-old female bichon frise with glamorous good looks and a charming personality. This little "powder puff" of a dog is extremely intelligent and responds almost as if she is human. In the community where she resides, Sophie loves everybody, and everybody loves her.

This is a book of life's dreams and expectations. About human, animals, birds, plants, flowers and all of God's wonderful creation. The poems just put you in a world of imagination and wonderment.

Intellectual struggles with the "animal question"-- how humans can rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals-- first began to take hold in the 1970s. Over the next forty years, scholars from a wide range of fields would make sweeping reevaluations of the relationship between humans and other animals.
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies brings these diverse evaluations together for the first time, paying special attention to the commodification of animals, the degradation of the natural world and a staggering loss of animal habitat and species extinction,...

There is increasing interest in the biology of domestic animals ranging from genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, nutritional physiology, and systems biology. This book touches on all of these, with a particular focus on topics such as domestic animals as comparative models to humans, molecular regulation of growth, metabolic efficiency, reproduction, and the impact of stress on growth and development. The book concludes with a discussion on the current and future directions for researchers.

From a turtle to a wolf, kids will love to read this vibrant and fun book of wild animals.

Children of all ages love the zoo and what better way to share the memories of your visit to the zoo with your children than with a picture book This book is written for young children in the preschool age group but older kids can enjoy it as well. It contains a nice collection of a variety of zoo animals and birds, along with their names and a brief description of each. It's a great way to teach your children about zoo animals. It's perfect for reading to children as they enjoy the colorful pictures. Volume I includes an elephant, polar bear, snow leopard, hippopotamus, sea lion, bears,...

Favorite Zoo Animals Book II is the second of two volumes. This book, like Book I, was designed to help you share pictures and basic information about a great variety of zoo animals to your young children. Teaching them in this manner can help them learn a lot about the nature and habits of God's creatures. This volume contains more exciting animals and birds, including camels, lorikeets, gorillas, lions, tigers and more