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The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs

par Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D. ...

Lu par Ellen Archer ...

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9 heure 52 min

The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell looks at humans as just another interesting species, and muses about why we behave the way we do around our dogs, how dogs might ... En savoir plus

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The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell looks at humans as just another interesting species, and muses about why we behave the way we do around our dogs, how dogs might
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Next of Kin

What Chimpanzees Tell Us About Who We Are

par Roger Fouts ...

Lu par Roger Fouts ...

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4 heure 32 min

Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. Now, in Next of Kin, Fouts tells the dramatic story of his odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist and caretaker of a family of chimpanzees, to his impassioned awakening as a crusader for the rights of animals.At the heart of this captivating ... En savoir plus

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Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. Now, in Next of Kin, Fouts tells the dramatic story of his odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist and caretaker of a family of chimpanzees, to his impassioned awakening as a crusader for the rights of animals.At the heart of this captivating
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Bonobo Handshake

A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo

par Vanessa Woods ...

Lu par Justine Eyre ...

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8 heure 12 min

In 2005, Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country reeling from a brutal decade-long war that had claimed the lives of millions. Settling in at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo's capital, Vanessa and her fiancé entered the world of a rare ape with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA. ... En savoir plus

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In 2005, Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country reeling from a brutal decade-long war that had claimed the lives of millions. Settling in at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo's capital, Vanessa and her fiancé entered the world of a rare ape with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA.
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Orangutans: My Cousins, My Friends - A Journey to Understand and Save the Person of the Forest

par Leif Cocks ...

Lu par Paul Campion ...

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6 heure 45 min

In this inspiring book, you will learn:• The 4 specific characteristics which differentiate the orangutans from other Great Apes• Why orangutans are the most intelligent beings on the planet today, second only to humans• Leif's personal journey to know and understand orangutans and how he came to be an expert witness in a human rights case on behalf of an orangutan named Sandra• The 5 things you ... En savoir plus

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In this inspiring book, you will learn:• The 4 specific characteristics which differentiate the orangutans from other Great Apes• Why orangutans are the most intelligent beings on the planet today, second only to humans• Leif's personal journey to know and understand orangutans and how he came to be an expert witness in a human rights case on behalf of an orangutan named Sandra• The 5 things you
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Through a Window

My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

par Jane Goodall ...

Lu par Pearl Hewitt ...

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11 heure 47 min

In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.On the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe is a community where the principal residents are chimpanzees. Through Goodall's eyes we watch young Figan's relentless rise to power and old Mike's crushing ... En savoir plus

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In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.On the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe is a community where the principal residents are chimpanzees. Through Goodall's eyes we watch young Figan's relentless rise to power and old Mike's crushing
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Anders

Gender door de ogen van een primatolooog

par Frans de Waal ...

Lu par Louis van Beek ...

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12 heure 44 min

Frans de Waal buigt zich over verschillen in sekse en gender bij de mens en andere dieren. Hij maakt hierbij gebruik van zijn grote kennis van onze naaste verwanten: chimpansees en bonobo’s. Wat is het geheim van de door vrouwen geleide vreedzame samenleving van bonobo’s? En wat kunnen wij mensen leren van mannelijke dominantie en territorialiteit bij chimpansees? Tegenwoordig wordt vaak beweerd ... En savoir plus

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Frans de Waal buigt zich over verschillen in sekse en gender bij de mens en andere dieren. Hij maakt hierbij gebruik van zijn grote kennis van onze naaste verwanten: chimpansees en bonobo’s. Wat is het geheim van de door vrouwen geleide vreedzame samenleving van bonobo’s? En wat kunnen wij mensen leren van mannelijke dominantie en territorialiteit bij chimpansees? Tegenwoordig wordt vaak beweerd
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Kasey to the Rescue

The Remarkable Story of a Monkey and a Miracle

par Ellen Rogers ...

Lu par Joyce Bean ...

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8 heure 45 min

A single mother of five, Ellen Rogers has endured her fair share of tragedy, having lost both her first husband and stepdaughter to cancer. But nothing could have prepared Rogers for the June 2005 car accident that left her son Ned—now twenty-five years old—a quadriplegic with a brain injury. The road to Ned's recovery was long and discouraging, but when Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the ... En savoir plus

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A single mother of five, Ellen Rogers has endured her fair share of tragedy, having lost both her first husband and stepdaughter to cancer. But nothing could have prepared Rogers for the June 2005 car accident that left her son Ned—now twenty-five years old—a quadriplegic with a brain injury. The road to Ned's recovery was long and discouraging, but when Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the
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Gorilas en la niebla

par Dian Fossey ...

Lu par Lina Franco ...

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12 heure 29 min

Gorilas en la niebla, el fascinante relato de los años que Dian Fossey pasó en una remota selva africana con el mayor de los grandes simios, se encuentra entre los libros más importantes jamás escritos sobre nuestra conexión con el mundo natural y sin duda constituye el legado inestimable de uno de los estudios de campo más largos realizados sobre los primates. Los extraordinarios esfuerzos de la ... En savoir plus

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Gorilas en la niebla, el fascinante relato de los años que Dian Fossey pasó en una remota selva africana con el mayor de los grandes simios, se encuentra entre los libros más importantes jamás escritos sobre nuestra conexión con el mundo natural y sin duda constituye el legado inestimable de uno de los estudios de campo más largos realizados sobre los primates. Los extraordinarios esfuerzos de la
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Where Bigfoot Walks

Crossing the Dark Divide

par Robert Michael Pyle ...

Lu par Adam Barr ...

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15 heure 28 min

The inspiration for the film The Dark Divide starring David Cross and Debra Messing, one of America's most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness within ourselves.Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Yale–trained ecologist Dr. Robert Pyle treks into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount ... En savoir plus

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The inspiration for the film The Dark Divide starring David Cross and Debra Messing, one of America's most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness within ourselves.Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Yale–trained ecologist Dr. Robert Pyle treks into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount
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A Better Ape

The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human

par Victor Kumar, Richmond Campbell ...

Lu par Chris Henry Coffey ...

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11 heure 57 min

Humans are moral creatures.Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved?In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that ... En savoir plus

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Humans are moral creatures.Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved?In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that
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Chimpanzee Whisperer, The

A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation

par Stany Nyandwi, David Blissett ...

Lu par Dion Graham, Callie Beaulieu ...

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6 heure 52 min

Earphones Award Winner from Audiofile Magazine!Stany Nyandwi’s gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall has called him a “chimpanzee whisperer.” His skills and devotion to these creatures—our closest living relatives, with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA—have earned him international awards and sent him on travels within Africa ... En savoir plus

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Earphones Award Winner from Audiofile Magazine!Stany Nyandwi’s gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall has called him a “chimpanzee whisperer.” His skills and devotion to these creatures—our closest living relatives, with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA—have earned him international awards and sent him on travels within Africa
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H. sapiens: The Last 12,000 Years

par Fil Munas ...

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10 heure 52 min

A COSMIC CONUNDRUM—This astonishing book follows our ascendancy from just another hominin on the open African savannah to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans methodically outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency and indifference, to emerge in the modern 21st century as the linchpin of a major mass extinction of countless other ... En savoir plus

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A COSMIC CONUNDRUM—This astonishing book follows our ascendancy from just another hominin on the open African savannah to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans methodically outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency and indifference, to emerge in the modern 21st century as the linchpin of a major mass extinction of countless other
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A Primate's Memoir

A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

par Robert M. Sapolsky ...

Lu par Mike Chamberlain ...

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14 heure 35 min

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa.An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves serious scientific ... En savoir plus

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"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa.An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves serious scientific
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Bigfoot Mysteries & Some Answers

par Martin K. Ettington ...

Lu par Martin K. Ettington ...

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59 min

There are thousands of reports of Bigfoot in North America and other sites around the world. These sightings include videos, pictures, and the stories of witnesses.I’ve researched and written about many types of cryptids and the reports of Bigfoot sightings are orders of magnitudes greater than any other cryptid sightings. These witnesses definitely saw something which is not human but bipedal.The ... En savoir plus

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There are thousands of reports of Bigfoot in North America and other sites around the world. These sightings include videos, pictures, and the stories of witnesses.I’ve researched and written about many types of cryptids and the reports of Bigfoot sightings are orders of magnitudes greater than any other cryptid sightings. These witnesses definitely saw something which is not human but bipedal.The
... En savoir plus
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Gorillas in Our Midst

A Zookeeper's Tale of Hand-Rearing Baby Gorillas

par Alan Toyne ...

Lu par Oliver J. Hembrough ...

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8 heure 35 min

When Afia, a newborn Western Lowland Gorilla, is rejected by her mother Kera after a difficult birth, her human keepers start the challenging but rewarding experience of hand-rearing her themselves. Teaching her the ropes of life in the Gorilla House at Bristol Zoo is tricky enough. But providing 24/7 care for a baby gorilla means Alan must hand-rear Afia in his own home too, forging a remarkable ... En savoir plus

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When Afia, a newborn Western Lowland Gorilla, is rejected by her mother Kera after a difficult birth, her human keepers start the challenging but rewarding experience of hand-rearing her themselves. Teaching her the ropes of life in the Gorilla House at Bristol Zoo is tricky enough. But providing 24/7 care for a baby gorilla means Alan must hand-rear Afia in his own home too, forging a remarkable
... En savoir plus
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Sisters of the Jungle

The Trailblazing Women Who Shaped the Study of Wild Primates

par Keriann McGoogan ...

Lu par Chelsea Kwoka ...

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10 heure 28 min

Sisters of the Jungle explores the history of primatology, a rare scientific discipline led primarily by women, from pioneers like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey to author Keriann McGoogan's own adventurous field studies.Since the 1970s, the science of primatology has been dominated by women—a unique reversal, as men usually outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields ... En savoir plus

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Sisters of the Jungle explores the history of primatology, a rare scientific discipline led primarily by women, from pioneers like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey to author Keriann McGoogan's own adventurous field studies.Since the 1970s, the science of primatology has been dominated by women—a unique reversal, as men usually outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields
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Through a Glass Brightly

Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are

par David P. Barash ...

Lu par Charles Constant ...

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9 heure 3 min

In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less special. And yet, as science has progressed, we find ourselves—like it or not—bereft of many of our ... En savoir plus

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In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less special. And yet, as science has progressed, we find ourselves—like it or not—bereft of many of our
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