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Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals
by Marlene Zuk  Publisher Comments Zuk is against using science as a weapon in the gender wars. This feminist animal behaviorist gives us a lively overview of non-human sexual behaviors and seeks to right the biases that have plagued the study of the subject. She warns us against using...
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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments To observe a dog's guilty look.to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals in certain acts is to wonder what moves them. Might there he a code of...
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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...
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Sleep & Rest in Animals
by Corine Lacrampe Publisher Comments An accessible and abundantly illustrated look at rest, sleep, and hibernation in animals, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of all types, written by a journalist specializing in science....
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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....
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The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
by Desmond Morris Publisher Comments Internationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour of the female body from head to toe. Highlighting the evolutionary functions of various...
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The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits (Bradford Books)
by Gordon M Burghardt Publisher Comments In "The Genesis of Animal Play," Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution, the brain, behavioral organization, and psychology. Is play essential to...
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Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
by Bernard Chapais Publisher Comments At some point in the course of evolution (from a primeval social organization of early hominids) all human societies, past and present, would emerge. In this account of the dawn of human society, Bernard Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship...
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Animal in Its World Volume 2 Lab Experiments
by Niko Tinbergen Synopsis This volume includes accounts of Tinbergen's remarkable laboratory experiments as well as his significant general papers. The selections examine the animal roots of human behavior, the relation of behavior and natural selection, the character of...
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Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist, 4th Edition
by Paul W. (edt) Sherman Publisher Comments This anthology contains 34 articles published since 1977 in "American Scientist", the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. Articles illustrate how behaviourists think about and conduct their research, and provide greater insight into the behaviour...
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Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild
by Susan Mccarthy Publisher Comments It's a jungle out there, and in Becoming a Tiger Susan McCarthy explores the way young animals discover their worlds and learn to survive. Contrary to common belief, not everything is "hardwired" -- or instinctual -- in the animal kingdom. Many skills an...
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson 
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Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
by Jonathan Balcombe Publisher Comments Pleasurable Kingdom presents new evidence that animals, like humans, enjoy themselves. From birds to baboons, insects to iguanas, animals feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more...
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Becoming a Tiger How Baby Animals Learn
by Susan Mccarthy Publisher Comments It's a jungle out there. And survival is never a given. Somehow, a blind, defenseless tiger kitten must evolve into a deadly, efficient predator; a chimp must learn to distinguish edible plants from lethal poisons; a baby buffalo must be able to pick its...
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The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
by Desmond Morris Publisher Comments Internationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour of the female body from head to toe. Highlighting the evolutionary functions of various...
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Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (Stonewall Inn Editions)
by Bruce Bagemihl Publisher Comments A Publishers Weekly Best Book One of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember" for 1999 Homosexuality in its myriad forms has been scientifically documented in more than 450 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and other animals...
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If a Lion Could Talk Animal Intelligence
by Stephen Budiansky
Publisher Comments How many of us have caught ourselves gazing into the eyes of a pet, wondering what thoughts lie behind those eyes? Or fallen into an argument over which is smarter, the dog or the cat? Scientists have conducted elaborate experiments trying to ascertain...
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Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong (P.S.)
by Marc Hauser Publisher Comments In his groundbreaking book, Marc Hauser puts forth a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion...
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Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
by Jonathan Balcombe Publisher Comments The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present...
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Our Inner Ape : Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (05 Edition)
by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments From a scientist and writer E.O. Wilson has called "the world authority on primate social behavior" comes a fascinating look at the most provocative aspects of human nature through our two closest cousins in the ape family....
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