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"A one-of-a-kind treasury of the most strange and fascinating knowledge and lore about animals. Largo tells us their most fascinating secrets and reveals fact after astonishing--and often hilarious--fact about their oddest behavior. Largo also looks at the beasts we created with our imaginations, as well as ones long gone"--
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The 48 million Americans of all ages who enjoy feeding wild birds and spend more than $3 billion a year on bird food alone all share a common enemy the squirrel. For 25 years, Outwitting Squirrels has been leading the charge to help bird lovers defend their feeders from these fast, greedy, incredibly crafty creatures who pillage birdfeeders before owners very eyes. This classic defense manual for the besieged bird feeder has been fully updated to...
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"Following in the footsteps of the bestselling first book THE FIELD GUIDE TO DUMB BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, the ever-annoyed-by-birds author Matt Kracht brings us THE FIELD GUIDE TO DUMB BIRDS OF THE WHOLE STUPID WORLD. This time he ventures around the globe to include snarky names and descriptions of stupid birds from the whole dang world. Packaged with the same charmingly crappy drawings, maps, and handwriting of the original, this follow-up will...
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Bears (particularly black bears) by nature are elusive and difficult to see in the wild; yet they are immensely popular, perhaps because they are surprisingly human-looking, though their dense fur and seemingly clumsy gait often lead them to be compared with shaggy, bumbling clowns. Well, the bears in this little gift book have had enough. They're here to set the record straight. 75-100 color photos capture bears just doing their thing and being bears;...
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"What are you going to do with all these babies now?"
Trish Ann Konieczny didn't always dream of being a wildlife rehabilitator, but that changed as soon as four orphaned raccoons fell out of a tree, into her yard and into her heart. Since the Raccoon Gang first dropped in, her life has been energized by a passion to share God's love for all creatures by rescuing birds and beasts alike.
Now Trish shares her most unique encounters with her needy...
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The hobby farm adventures from Amuck: Tales From a Hobby Farm continue unabated in the pages of Beyond Amuck with the newest animal-related catastrophes faced by the author.
The neighborhood coyotes are up to their usual nefarious doings, slinking around and hoping for a quick bite to eat from the sumptuous buffet found on the author's farm, including miniature horses, chickens, a goat, and dogs.
Coyotes aren't the only animals who think they own...
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On 25 March 2020 the Kruger National Park closed its gates to all visitors for the first time since opening in 1928. The animals became restless-they missed the creatures with their shining armour. So, King Lion gathered the animals together and asked a very important question: "Where are those 'human-animals'?" The animals began searching, and this is what they found... This book is fun reading with a purpose-it also serves as a guide to the Kruger...
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This laugh-out-loud funny book features our fancy feathered friends living the life of the rich and famous.
These fabulous birds have had enough and are ready to start living life-not just the way they want, but the way they deserve! Featuring various birds in their own Real Housewives scenarios, Feathered & Fabulous is the perfect blend of snark, sass, and medication.
Adelaide is going to buy that exquisite fur coat, Faye is going to drop that...
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Chickens are fascinating, social, both gentle and fierce, cunning, and clever. They figure things out, they plan, and they manipulate.
The Secret Lives of Chickens pulls us into a time and place that seem simpler, but actually are not, because of the feathered inhabitants within. This is about how chickens must view the world, as seen from the outside.
They have their own culture that is more complex than we assume. They are stalwart little feathered...
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Rassurez-vous, ce livre n'a pas pour but de vous inviter à vous repentir afin d'empêcher la fin du monde. Tout au plus, s'agit-il de l'orienter dans sa chute. Je ne suis pas écologiste pour sauver une espèce qui mérite de mourir. Je le suis pour empêcher que les riches oligarques s'en sortent confortablement sur le dos des vulnérables, des minorités, des punks et des prostituées sur le coin des rues qui ne survivront pas à la montée des...
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Get ready to party-the goats are back in town! Based on the popular Instagram account, Goats of Anarchy takes you on a tour of Leanne's goat rescue farm, a place where special-needs goats can heal, grow, and butt heads to their hearts' content. Join Pocket, Ella, Chibs, Lyla, Prospect and Polly--the goat who took the Internet by storm with her adorable duck costume--as they rumble, snuggle, pig out, dress up, and even teach you a few goat yoga...
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Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whip-smart essays, from a winner of a Whiting Award for nonfiction, traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life....
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A rhyming illustrated humor book for moms who feel they're not doing a good job (and that's all moms, right?). Packed with scientifically true examples of terrible parents in the animal kingdom, to remind and reassure any mother that there are way worse moms out there.
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David Sibley, Don and Lillian Stokes, and many more share their inside tips-and witty observations-on the birding life. The biggest names in birding dispense advice to birders of every level-on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaning binoculars to pishing and pelagic birding-in these lighthearted essays accompanied by illustrations. Whether satirizing bird snobs or relating the traditions and taboos of the birding culture, this collection of...
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He roams New England, Arkansas, the Caribbean, Nova Scotia and the familiar and odd plots of mind and thought. He explores shorelines and climbs "hillish" mountains. He sits on porches and talks to passersby and their dogs. He meets strange and delightful people, most of whom are real.
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From the monotonous lark to the rough-faced shag, these poor birds have us all asking: ARE ORNITHOLOGISTS OK? Some people will literally name all the birds instead of going to therapy, and this book exposes all the weird and wonderful monikers these poor feathered creatures have been tarred with. From the go-away-bird and the common loon to the sad flycatcher and the sombre tit, we seriously have to wonder why such disturbed ornithologists even went...
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In an irreverent but loving treatise on the creatures of South Africa and beyond, David Muirhead features eccentric animal behaviors in his native home. Mixing folklore and legend with a heavy dose of science, Muirhead leaves no wart unexamined in these tales of unrespectable animals. A book for those delighted to discover what 'pronking' means, or that for pythons, swallowing a porcupine whole is the easy part; it's afterwards when the anxiety really...
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"Perfect for the anti-aviary (or bird fanatic with a sense of humor), this snarky illustrated handbook is equal parts profane, funny, and--let's face it--true. Featuring 50 common North American birds, such as the White-Breasted Butt Nugget and the Goddamned Canada Goose (or White-Breasted Nuthatch and Canada Goose for the layperson), Kracht identifies all the idiots in your backyard and details exactly why they suck with humorous, yet angry, ink...
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In The Dog Listener Jan Fennell shares her revolutionary insight into the canine world and its instinctive language that has enabled her to bring even the most delinquent of dogs to heel. This easy-to-follow guide draws on Jan's countless case histories of problem dogs-from biters and barkers to bicycle chasers-to show how you can bridge the language barrier that separates you from your dog.
This edition includes a new 30-Day Training Guide to further...
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