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Mammals

Animals' Best Friends Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226601489, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives – the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day by whales and cows, octopus and mice, even bees – we feel a growing compassion, a desire to better their li...

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Literary Criticism

Sea Life

Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

King Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones

Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...

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Sea Life

Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of Anambas Islands, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 69

Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Suharsono, Soemodinoto Arisetiarso, Basuki Riyanto

ISBN: PB: 9781934151594, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, illustrated throughout

This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of the Anambas Islands in western Indonesia conducted in May 2012. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on...

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Mammals

Reference

Manual of the Mammalia An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"

Kelt Douglas A., Patton James L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226533001, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings

The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals". Inte...

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Mammals

Ecology

Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195186, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

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Birds

Project Puffin The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

Kress Stephen W., Jackson Derrick Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219791, ISBN: HB: 9780300204810, Yale University Press, July 2016
376 pp., 21x14 cm, 8-page colour illus., 30 black&white images

"Project Puffin" is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had neste...

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Birds

Ecology

Snowbird Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco

Ketterson Ellen D., Atwell Jonathan W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226330778, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats, making t...

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Mammals

How Animals Grieve

King Barbara J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155203, ISBN: HB: 9780226436944, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of ot...

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Sea Life

Biology of Sharks and Rays

Klimley A. Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226442495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 57 colour plates, 87 halftones, 103 line drawings, 12 tables

"The Biology of Sharks and Rays" is a comprehensive resource on the biological and physiological characteristics of the cartilaginous fishes: sharks, rays, and chimaeras. In sixteen chapters, organized by theme, A. Peter Klimley covers a broad spectr...

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Mammals

Ecology

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010359, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 77 halftones, 62 line illus.

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of fiel...

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