Animals

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion....

The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse traces the hard path of the Light Horse from the bleakest of starts - being deprived of their horses and fighting at Gallipoli in the tragic Battle of the Nek - to triumph and glory in the desert....

Birds. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals. David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world....

A 600-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a 17-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive....

Have you ever wondered what your dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can! The answers will surprise and delight you....

In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited....

Collected together for the very first time, this is the complete series one and two of Life Stories, written and presented by Sir David Attenborough....

In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world....

The enchanted island of Corfu was home to Gerald Durrell and his family for five years before the Second World War....

When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers....

A charming and moving debut memoir about how a man with a mystery illness saves a pigeon, and how the pigeon saves the man.

Capstick will stun you with these true accounts of the most notorious and often unexpected maneaters from around the world. After listening to them, you'll think again about that docile elephant in the zoo, or about deadly piranha escaping into Florida's waterways.

In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest....

In 2012 retired South African general Johan Jooste was parachuted into the seemingly unwinnable war against rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park....

The Earth provides a unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene....

Now in audio - a fascinating work of popular science from a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter....

The story that became a global sensation: Sophie, the Australian cattle dog who was lost at sea and swam six miles to a remote island where she survived in the wild for five months....

How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shapes they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Find out....

For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey, a Japanese whaling fleet, through the storms and ice of Antarctica....

Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary....

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers....

A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our planet....

Do you want to learn how to transform your household waste into black gold-dust? Do you feel the need to be more environmentally responsible? Listen to this audiobook for more....

A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was 26 years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild....

On a spring evening in Montana, Brian Buckbee encounters an injured baby pigeon. Heartbroken after the loss of the love of his life and increasingly isolated by a mysterious illness that overtook him while trekking through Asia, Brian is unaware that this bird—who he names Two-Step—will change his life. Brian takes in Two-Step, and more injured birds, eventually transforming his home into a madcap bird rehabilitation and rescue center. As Brian and Two-Step grow closer, an unexpected kinship forms.

A two-week vacation to the Florida Keys meant Mary and Jameson Sr. could share the beauty of their favorite turquoise-blue waters with their four children. On that serene day at Looe Key Reef, their oldest, ten-year-old Jameson Jr., was swimming among the marine life, capturing breathtaking footage of a sea turtle when a massive bull shark attacked. Nine miles from shore and even farther from a hospital, their son weakening, the Reeders prayed for help—and it came through a miraculous chain of events.

Un estimulante audiolibro sobre la sabiduría de los lobos y el poder de la naturaleza. • Por su comportamiento social, no hay ningún animal tan parecido al hombre como el lobo. • Con décadas de experiencia como estudiosa de los lobos, Elli H. Radinger nos ofrece sus increíbles conocimientos sobre esta apasionante especie animal. Rodeados de un aura de belleza y libertad, los lobos inspiran reverencia, respeto, fascinación.

Whether you’re a curious beginner or an eager nature enthusiast, The Art of Knowing Birds is your essential guide to spotting, identifying, and appreciating birds in their natural habitats. This complete handbook will help you master the timeless skill of birdwatching, turning every walk or adventure into a chance to discover new species and deepen your connection with nature.

Lobster has been a phenomenal success story, with a commercial fishery that has generated enormous wealth and fuelled appetites for one of the world’s most recognizable luxury foods. The great lobster boom that began in the 1990s has also led to violent fights over who has the right to catch this valuable seafood, including many Indigenous people in Canada, who until recently have been excluded from this industry. Now overfishing, trade wars, and climate change are threatening the future of this fishery in deeply troubling ways.