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Where do we come from and how did we get here? Come time-travelling through the history of every species that has ever lived with Professor Max Telford A four-billion-year journey...

'A tour-de-force survey of how birds live their lives - with all the drama, surprise, humour, sadness and amazement of any human soap-opera' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds...

The book titled The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants by the author Erich Hoyt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The Great Auk is one of the world's most famous extinct birds. It was undoubtedly a most curious creature: a flightless bird with tiny wings, it stood upright like a...

This book is a guide to the invertebrate orders known to occur on land in Australia. A series of illustrated keys allows the reader to identify invertebrates to the order...

Mark O'Shea has combined expertly written, in-depth descriptions of the world's most common and most exotic venomous snakes with a gripping account of his adventures with snakes, including several serious...

A wonderful introduction to Australian mammals, this guide is packed with information about the behaviour, development, food and habitat of Australia's remarkable mammals. Each entry fully describes the species and...

In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the...

A charming and informative gallery of more than 600 dog breeds from around the world In Dogs of the World, animal illustrator Lili Chin introduces more than six hundred breeds...

This text presents both the vertebraic structure and its evolutionary development and significance, allowing students to learn why a structure is the way it is, as well as what it...

THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024 GUARDIAN BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2024 ECONOMIST BEST BOOKS OF 2024 FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2024 From one of the world's great...

"What's that Snake?" offers an easy introduction to snake identification for the beginner. Snakes of the region are grouped according to family likeness, common behaviour or appearance, and the reader...

*A book of the year in the New York Times* 'I wish this book had been published five hundred years ago and been compulsory reading ever since' Jay Griffiths, author...

'Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen' Sunday Times 'Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping ... Brilliant' New York Magazine An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting...

Georgie Codd is scared of fish. Really, really scared. Loving the sea and resenting her phobia, she plots to cross continents, learn to dive and swim with the world's biggest...

'A must read for all wildlife lovers' Dominic Dyer Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective...

An informative series that provides, in a concise format, better understanding of animals and their habitats. Fascinating in its diversity, the natural world comes to life on the pages of...

Feathered creatures made their first appearance about 150 million years ago and today number almost 9000 species worldwide. This book examines the impact of environmental change on individual birds and...

These beautifully illustrated and thoroughly researched books pay tribute to some of the world's most fascinating animals and elements of nature. Spectacular, full-color photographs and informative text show each family...

Shortlisted for the 2019 CBCAs for Book of the Year: Younger Readers A delightful gift book of birds from around Yirrkala, which is Siena's home in North East Arnhem Land....

The book titled Newman's Birds of Southern Africa by the author Kenneth Newman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Photographs by Chip Clark. Main Selection of the Natural Science Book Club. This book provides the first comprehensive set of illustrations of the life forms revealed in the Burgess Shale....

What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of...

Colorful illustrations and intriguing tidbits about the animals native to the land Down Under. "The Incomplete Book of Australian Mammals" is a selection of the author and illustrator's favorite animals...

From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run...

The findings are based on 30 years of field research on the behaviour and ecology of chimpanzees and other mammals in Africa.

From the bestselling author of Born to Run , a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America, and, in the...

The handicap principle, first proposed by Zahavi about 17 years ago, has in the past several years become widely accepted as a central unifying theory explaining many previously baffling aspects...

Consciousness in animals is a controversial and very recent field of study. This book braves the subject from the point of view of the scientist ready to question traditions and...

How perceptive are cats to the good (or bad) behaviour of humans? How do they differ from breed to breed? Are some left handed and some right-handed? How can you...

Do animals think? Can they count? Do they have emotions? Do they feel anger, frustration, hurt or sorrow? Are they bound by any moral code? Professor Hauser offers answers to...

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are...

'A thrilling biological detective story. Brilliant told and relentlessly entertaining' CHARLES FOSTERExplore the spectacular science of reproduction - from frogs and funghi to seahorses, sparrows and everything in betweenLet's talk...

A charming and beautifully illustrated book about the world's most beloved birds, written by a leading scientist at the British Antarctic Survey and illustrated by his wife. 'An ode to...

The remarkable conservation story of one of the world's most iconic animals Deep in the forests of Northeast Asia roams the majestic and revered Amur tigers, more popularly known as...

The book titled Silken Web: Natural History of Australian Spiders by the author Bert Simon-Brunet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From one of today's leading experts on ancient DNA, a sweeping genetic history that unravels the mystery of where horses were first domesticated. Ludovic Orlando garnered world acclaim for helping...

A marvelously illustrated introductory guide to frogs and their natural history. Frogs are among the most diverse and adaptable animals on the planet, with a rich evolutionary history and a...

An acclaimed photographic guide to these marvelous and enigmatic birds-now in a new, updated edition Penguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and...

A richly illustrated natural history of ants, covering their diversity, ecology, anatomy, behaviour, and more Plentiful and familiar, ants make up an estimated one-third of the world's insect biomass and...

Melanism: Evolution in Action describes investigations into a ubiquitous biological phenomenon, the existence of dark, or melanic, forms of many species of mammals, insects, and some plants. Melanism is a...

This volume examines pheromones, the chemical signals that animals release to communicate with other members of their species. These substances orchestrate a wide variety of activities; they can attract mates,...