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“craig stanford”

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  • Unnatural Habitat

    The Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles

    by Craig Stanford ...
    A guide to the ecosystem famously known as Los Angeles, from a field biologist and longtime San Gabriel Valley resident."A worthy and illuminating entry in the tradition of works exploring urbanization's effect on the environment." —Los Angeles TimesWithin the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles and its suburbs, residents coexist—often unknowingly—with a bustling mosaic of native and introduced ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Cold-Blooded Murder

    Reptiles and Amphibians on the Brink of Extinction

    by Craig Stanford ...
    Around the world, many reptile and amphibian species—from the iconic Komodo dragon to the unglamorous Telfair’s skink—are facing grave threats to their survival. For many, like the Belalanda chameleon of Madagascar and Mexico’s beloved axolotls, habitat destruction due to logging, agriculture, and development poses the greatest peril. Some, such as Galápagos giant tortoises, have been slaughtered ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The New Chimpanzee

    A Twenty-First-Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin

    by Craig Stanford ...
    Recent discoveries about wild chimpanzees have dramatically reshaped our understanding of these great apes and their kinship with humans. We now know that chimpanzees not only have genomes similar to our own but also plot political coups, wage wars over territory, pass on cultural traditions to younger generations, and ruthlessly strategize for resources, including sexual partners. In The New ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Planet Without Apes

    by Craig Stanford ...
    Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans—threatens to become a reality within just a few human generations. We are on the verge of losing the last links to our ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Hunting Apes

    Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior

    by Craig B. Stanford ...
    What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our large brains gave us our exceptional thinking capacity and led to humans' other distinctive characteristics, including advanced communication, tool use, and walking on two legs. Or was it the other ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Beautiful Minds

    The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins

    by Maddalena Bearzi, Craig Stanford ...
    Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford, a dolphin biologist and a primatologist who have spent their careers studying these animals in the wild, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Tree of Origin

    What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution

    by Richard Byrne, Robin Dunbar, W. C. McGrew, Anne Pusey, Charles Snowdon, Craig Stanford, Karen B. Strier, Richard W. Wrangham ...
    How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Kids Books Discovery Book Series - 2 In 1

    by Kate Cruise ...
    Book 1: Inside you'll find interesting, intriguing, funny & weird snake moments like: * Ancient Snake Origins * Where Do Snakes Hang Out? * The Secrets Of A Snake's Skin * Do Snakes Have A 6th Sense? * What Is A Snake's Defense Tactic? * Can Snakes Fly & Other Snake Specialities * 16 Amazing Non-Venomous Snakes * Most Beautiful Snakes On Earth * Snakes As Pets and lots more... Book 2: Inside you ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Wonder of Birds

    What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future

    by Jim Robbins ...
    A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful—and surprising—ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planetOur relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them. Birds, Jim Robbins ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Atlas Obscura: Wild Life

    An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders

    by Cara Giaimo, Joshua Foer, Atlas Obscura ...
    From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It's more than a field guide–it's an adventure. * National Bestseller * Named a Best New Book by BookRiot, New York Post and more * Named a Best White Elephant Gift ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Becoming Wild

    How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

    by Carl Safina ...
    Discover the rich cultures of non-human beings in Earth's remaining wild places, as revealed by bestselling author Carl Safina.In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Carl Safina, New York Times bestselling author, brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Masters of the Planet

    The Search for Our Human Origins

    by Ian Tattersall ...
    Series series MacSci
    50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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