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The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals by Katja M. Guenther
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals takes us inside one of the country's highest-intake animal shelters. Katja M. Guenther witnesses the dramatic variance in the narratives assigned different animals, including Monster, which dictate their chances for survival. She argues that these inequalities are powerfully linked to human ideas about race, class, gender, ability, and species.
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ISBN: 9781503612037
Publication Date: 2020
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Peña-Guzmán
When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming. It shows that dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals, giving us access to a seemingly inaccessible realm of animal experience.
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ISBN: 9780691220093
Publication Date: 2022
Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge by Giorgio Vallortigara; Claudia Losi (Illustrator)
An expert on the brain argues that the mind is not a blank slate and that much early behavior is biologically predisposed rather than learned. Why do newborns show a preference for a face (or something that resembles a face) over a nonface-like object? Why do baby chicks prefer a moving object to an inanimate one? Neither baby human nor baby chick has had time to learn to like faces or movement.
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ISBN: 9780262045933
Publication Date: 2021
Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant by Dale Peterson
Elephants have captivated the human imagination for as long as they have roamed the earth, appearing in writings and cultures from thousands of years ago and still much discussed today. In Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant, veteran scientific writer Dale Peterson has collected thirty-three essential writings about elephants from across history, with geographical perspectives ranging from Africa and Southeast Asia to Europe and the United States.
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ISBN: 9781595348678
Publication Date: 2020
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The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things by
The Secret Wisdom of Nature, master storyteller and international sensation Peter Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what happens when this finely tuned system gets out of sync?
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781771643887Publication Date: 2019
