The bedside book of beasts: a wildlife miscellany

By Gibson, Graeme

Publishing Date: c2009

Classification: 500

Call Number: 591.53 GIB

The complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on Earth throughout its long history. Gibson gathers works of art and literature that capture the power, grace, and inventiveness of both predators and their natural prey.

A feathered river across the sky: the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction

By Greenberg, Joel

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 500

Call Number: 598.168 GRE

Naturalist Joel Greenberg relates how the pigeons' propensity to nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting market and recreational hunting. His cautionary tale provides a close look at what happens when species and natural resources are not harvested sustainably.

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Mama's last hug: animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves

By Waal, F. B. M. de

Publishing Date: [2019]

Classification: 500

Call Number: 599.8851 WAA

A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don't have a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same is true for our emotions -- Adapted from publisher's description.