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Saving the Baghdad Zoo: A True Story of Hope and Heroes by Kelly Milner Halls Publisher Comments The Baghdad Zoo was once home to 500 animals. But a month after the shock and awe attack that began the war in Iraq, only a few of those animals were left. The zookeepers had been forced to seek safety, but they could not take their charges with them... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife (Animals, History, Culture) by Etienne Benson Publisher Comments American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. Wired Wilderness is the first book-length study of... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Handbook of Ethological Methods (2ND 96 Edition) by Philip N. Lehner Publisher Comments A thoroughly updated and expanded step-wise guide to the study of animal behaviour.... (read more) List Price $102.00 Your price: $77.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems by Doris (edt) Abele Publisher Comments Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are increasingly appreciated as down-stream effectors of cellular damage and dysfunction under natural and anthropogenic stress scenarios in aquatic systems. This comprehensive volume describes oxidative stress... (read more) Your price: $159.95 New - Hardcover
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Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory: a Debate by Rudolf Meier Publisher Comments No question in theoretical biology has been more perennially controversial or perplexing than What is a species? Recent advances in phylogenetic theory have called into question traditional views of species and spawned many concepts that are currently... (read more) Your price: $47.50 New - Trade Paper
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On Growth & Form Complete Rev Edition by Darcy Went Thompson Publisher Comments Classic of biology and modern science sets forth seminal "theory of transformation" — that one species evolves into another not by successive minor changes in individual body parts but by large-scale transformations involving the body as a whole... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Physics of Foraging: An Introduction to Random Searches and Biological Encounters by Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan Publisher Comments Do the movements of animals, including humans, follow patterns that can be described quantitatively by simple laws of motion? If so, then why? These questions have attracted the attention of scientists in many disciplines, and stimulated debates ranging... (read more) Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Emotional Lives of Animals : a Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter (08 Edition) by Marc Bekoff Publisher Comments In this important book, world-renowned biologist Marc Bekoff questions the conventional scientific “wisdom” that denies animal emotions. He makes a strong case for something that every animal lover and pet owner already knows: animals have... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation (Science Essentials) by James L Gould Publisher Comments "Nature's Compass is a captivating introduction to animal navigation. It draws readers into a world in which myriad creatures outperform humans in every way possible. Enlightening and thought-provoking, this book is a comprehensive exploration of the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Animals and the Human Imagination: A Companion to Animal Studies by Aaron (edt) Gross Publisher Comments Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals' significance in human self-conception. Thinkers such as... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead Publisher Comments Most people would love to be able to fly like a bird, but few of us are aware of the other sensations that make being a bird a gloriously unique experience. What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Splendrillia Boucheti by Larrie Benton Zacharie Publisher Comments Splendrillia boucheti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large taxonomic class within the Mollusca. The class Gastropoda includes... (read more) Your price: $46.75 New - Trade Paper
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Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales by Tom Turpin Publisher Comments Dr. Tom Turpin is the creator of Purdue University's "Bug Bowl," a celebration of insect antics that annually draws more than 12,000 visitors who come to munch on bug stir-fry, to take part in cricket-spitting contests, and to cheer on tractor-pulling... (read more) List Price $11.96 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Wading for Bugs: Exploring Streams with the Experts by Judith L. Li And Michael T. Barbour Publisher Comments In Wading for Bugs, nearly two dozen aquatic biologists share their memorable encounters with stream insects. The contributors, based primarily in North America, work in diverse environments--from arctic to desert, from mountain streams to river valleys.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.37 New - Trade Paper
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Wageningen Ur Frontis #18: Fresh Herbage for Dairy Cattle: The Key to a Sustainable Food Chain by Anjo Elgersma Publisher Comments This book offers the contributions of active researchers and leading experts in the field of grassland management and grass utilization. Coverage follows the food chain, moving from the big picture to basic principles of grassland management and effects... (read more) Your price: $93.50 New - Trade Paper
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Series Entomologica #56: Insect-Plant Relationships by Stephen J. Simpson Publisher Comments Over the past 40 years, the SIP meetings have played a central role in the development of the field of insect-plant relationships, providing both a show-case for current research as well as a forum for the airing and development of influential new ideas.... (read more) Your price: $261.75 New - Trade Paper
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Companion Animals and Us (05 Edition) by Paul Publisher Comments Explores our complex relationships with pets.... (read more) List Price $73.00 Your price: $55.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal Vocal Communication by Donald H. Owings Publisher Comments Exciting conceptual framework for looking at animal vocal communication and its evolution.... (read more) Your price: $77.25 New - Trade Paper
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Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (Animals, History, Culture) by Nigel Rothfels Publisher Comments To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and... (read more) Your price: $33.50 New - Trade Paper
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Let's Look at Animal Ears (Looking at Animal Parts) by Wendy Perkins Synopsis Provides an introduction to animal ears, and explains how they work, and how different animals use them.... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Library Bound
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