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"Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and from California to Tennessee, as well as on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatized...
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Heartwarming stories of interspecies friendship, documented in amazing photographs.Introduction -- The African Elephant and the Sheep -- The Asiatic Black Bear and the Black Cat -- The Bobcat Kitten and the Fawn -- The Bobtailed Dog and the Bobtailed Cat -- The Cheetahs and the Anatolian Shepherds -- The Cockatoo and the Cat -- The Dachshund and the Piglet -- The Diver and the Manta Ray -- The Donkey and the Mutt -- The Duckling and the Kookaburra...
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A heart-warming celebration of love between species from the New York Times bestselling author of Unlikely Friendships.
In her inspiring New York Times bestseller Unlikely Friendships, Jennifer Holland introduced us to the heartwarming relationships that exist between animals of different species. Her stories struck a chord with thousands of readers, including Temple Grandin, who described the book as "amazing."
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"A heartwarming and inspirational book for the tens of millions of dog owners and dog lovers-and the newest addition to the phenomenal Unlikely Friendship series, a publishing program with three New York Times bestselling books and, with its bestselling calendars, nearly two million copies in print. Unlikely Friendships: Dogs brings together twenty-seven new stories of canine kindness and courage, plus a handful of classic tales involving dogs from...
12) The possibility dogs: what a handful of "unadoptables" taught me about service, hope, and healing
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After a particularly grisly canine search-and-rescue mission led to a struggle with PTSD, Susannah Charleson credits her healing to her partnership with search dog Puzzle. Inspired by that experience and having met dogs formally trained to assist in such crises, Charleson learns to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, and to train them for work beside hurting partners, to whom these second-chance dogs bring intelligence, comfort, and hope....
14) Life before man
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Discusses the evolution of animal life and its relationship to the physical, intellectual and social evolutionary development of man.
15) Macaw flock
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This title explains what a macaw flock is and what macaws living together in a group do to help one another. For instance, macaws sleep together in trees at night to stay safe. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
16) Wolf pack
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This title explains what a wolf pack is and what wolves living together in a group do to help one another. For instance, wolves groom each other and work together to hunt large prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. --Publisher
17) Baboon troop
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This title explains what a baboon troop is and what baboons living in a group do to help one another. For instance, baboons groom each other and make loud calls when danger is near to warn others in the troop. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
19) The dog master
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"Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever... Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator and prey. No stranger to the experiences that make us...
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"Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But given what we know about the mechanisms of evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all that the genes in your body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkat colonies...