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• Our Wild Familiars

  How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World

  Werb, Dan,

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  A journey into the hidden lives of synanthropes, the wild animals who've found ingenious ways to survive and thrive in human communities, from an award-winning writer and scientist.

• Wild Souls

  Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-human World

  Marris, Emma,

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  Explores the complex ethical dilemmas that arise when the welfare of individual wild animals clashes with broader conservation goals for species and ecosystems.

• The Age of Deer

  Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors

  Howsare, Erika,

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  This hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies investigates our connection with deer, from mythology to biology, offering a unique and intimate perspective on a very human relationship while inviting us to contemplate the paradoxes of how we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Underwater Wild

  My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  Foster, Craig (Filmmaker),

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  Based on the Academy Award-nominated documentary My Octopus Teacher, this book is an immersive journey into the underwater world that reveals a new vision of the sea, one full of wonder and life-changing teachings for even the most land bound of us.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fuzz

  When Nature Breaks the Law

  Roach, Mary,

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  Investigates the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet that reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers and offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

• Eating Animals

  Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-

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  Synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, "Eating Animals" explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits, from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth.

• H Is for Hawk

  Macdonald, Helen, 1970-

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  An award-winning best-seller recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.

• Life of Pi

  a Novel

  Martel, Yann

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  Pi Patel is the son of a zookeeper. While emigrating with his family from India to North America on a large cargo ship full of many of the zoo's animals, their ship sinks. Pi ends up alone on a life raft with a menagerie of animals, including a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Photo Ark Vanishing

  the World's Most Vulnerable Animals

  Sartore, Joel,

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  The animals featured in these pages are either destined for extinction or already extinct in the wild but still alive today, thanks to dedication of a heroic group committed to their continued survival.

• Mind of the Raven

  Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-birds

  Heinrich, Bernd, 1940-

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  Heinrich studies the raven carefully and paints a vivid picture of the raven's world that reflect his love and respect for these complex and engaging creatures.

• On Animals

  Orlean, Susan,

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  Orleans examines animal-human relationships that include a range of creatures: the household pets we dote on; the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates; the creatures who could eat us for dinner; the various tamed and untamed animals we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Soul of An Octopus

  a Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

  Montgomery, Sy,

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  An engaging investigation into the emotional and physical world of the octopus. Includes fantastic stories about octopuses held in captivity that will surprise and delight you.

• Tenacious Beasts

  Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think About Animals

  Preston, Christopher J. (Christopher James), 1968-

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  A careful look at how various animal species are making remarkable comebacks from the brink of extinction. Explores successful wildlife recoveries across the globe and challenges humans to rethink how we coexist with nature.

• Meet the Neighbors

  Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-human World

  Keim, Brandon, 1976-

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  Explores the rich cognitive and emotional inner lives of ordinary wild animals living in human-shared landscapes and challenges readers to rethink traditional views on wildlife, including how recognizing animals as fellow thinking beings should…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Chorus

  Finding Harmony With Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals

  Peterson, Brenda, 1950-

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  Lessons of connection, alliance, and adaptation from encounters with and observations of a wide variety of animals.

• Wild Things, Wild Places

  Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

  Alexander, Jane, 1939-

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  Actress and conservationist Jane Alexander shares a personal account of her global travels to remote ecosystems to observe endangered species and the threats posed by human activity.

• Zoo Story

  Life in the Garden of Captives

  French, Thomas

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  Offers a behind-the-scenes look at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, examining the complex and often controversial relationship between humans and captive animals.