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Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories by Marty Crump Publisher Comments The natural world is filled with diverse—not to mention quirky and odd—animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover 
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When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Publisher Comments Not since Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals has a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full rage of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom. Hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, When Elephants... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal Behavior by Tim Halliday Publisher Comments Animal Behavior looks at the fascinating activities of animals as they progress from birth to maturity-how they attract a mate and care for their young, find shelter and food, defend themselves, navigate sometimes vast distances and survive the many... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Bob Berman Publisher Comments In recent years quantum theory has forced a sea change in Western natural philosophy, casting doubt on traditional physical explanations of the universe's genesis and structure.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Better to Eat You with: Fear in the Animal World by Joel Berger Publisher Comments An exploration of the nature of fear of predation in animals also provides a look at the author's research career and trips to such inhospitble places as Siberia, Mongolia, and Greenland.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $16.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions by Mark W. Moffett Publisher Comments Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff Publisher Comments 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 zoo... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $15.72 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden Publisher Comments In celebration of the enormous diversity of genders and sexuality found in animals and humans, Roughgarden exposes how biology, medicine, anthropology and Christianity have obstructed the recognition and acceptance of this diversity.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle by Amotz Zahavi Publisher Comments Ever since Darwin, animal behavior has intrigued and perplexed human observers. The elaborate mating rituals, lavish decorative displays, complex songs, calls, dances and many other forms of animal signaling raise fascinating questions. To what degree... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $24.05 Google eBooks - Electronic
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How Animals Have Sex: A Guide to the Reproductive Habits of Creatures Great and Small by David Strorm Publisher Comments Whether in the wild or in captivity, our furry, scaly, and feathered friends exhibit an incredible determination to mate. Find out which animals engage in dance competitions, cannibalism, and intercourse that lasts for six months. Discover why lady... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On Aggression (Harvest Book, Hb 291) by Konrad Lorenz Publisher Comments This work has had significant impact on the social and biological sciences and is now a classic point of reference for investigations of behavioral patterns. Lorenz presents his findings on the mechanism of aggression and how animals control destructive... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sexual Orientation: Toward Biological Understanding by Lee Ellis Publisher Comments Genetic, hormonal, neurological, and other biological factors need to be taken into account to fully understand sexual orientation. This work represents the latest research and theory on causes of variation in sexual orientation. It looks at sexual... (read more) List Price $150.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes About the Author Peter Forbes is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence by James Gould Publisher Comments Animal behavior has long been a battleground between the competing claims of nature and nurture, with the possible role of cognition in behavior as a recent addition to this debate. There is an untapped trove of behavioral data that can tell us a great... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Inside the Animal Mind by George Page Synopsis Exploring new knowledge about the many facets of animal intelligence, this book is the official companion to a three-part PBS program airing in January 2000 on the Emmy-winning series "Nature, In Search of the Animal Mind." 240 photos.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong by Marc D Hauser Publisher Comments Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and... (read more) List Price $25.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter. From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, But Get Lost in the Mall by Colin Ellard Publisher Comments An eye-opening exploration of the intriguing and often counter-intuitive science of human navigation and experience of place. In the age of GPS and iPhones, human beings it would seemhave mastered the art of direction, but does the need for these devices... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence by James L. And Carol Grant Gould Gould Publisher Comments Animal Architects masterfully investigates how the structure an animal builds reveals the inner workings of its mind. Beginning with instinct and the simple homes of solitary insects, and progressing to conditioning, the “cognitive map,” and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.38 New - Trade Paper
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