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The Science of Pets

par Jay Ingram ...

Lu par Tim H. Dixon ...

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9 heure 40 min

In the tradition of The Inside of a Dog, top science writer and TV personality Jay Ingram shares new insights into the hearts, minds, and bodies of the animals who love us (or do they?).More than one billion pets live in homes around the world, sleeping on dog beds, clawing at cat trees, swimming in bowls, crawling around in aquariums. Canada, the United States, Brazil, the EU, and China make up ... En savoir plus

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In the tradition of The Inside of a Dog, top science writer and TV personality Jay Ingram shares new insights into the hearts, minds, and bodies of the animals who love us (or do they?).More than one billion pets live in homes around the world, sleeping on dog beds, clawing at cat trees, swimming in bowls, crawling around in aquariums. Canada, the United States, Brazil, the EU, and China make up
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The Story of Birds

A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present

par Steve Brusatte ...

Lu par Patrick Lawlor ...

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11 heure 48 min

From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the 10,000+ extraordinary species alive today.Tens of billions of birds share the planet with us, an astonishingly diverse array of species that are present nearly everywhere humans call home—and many places we do not. With their ... En savoir plus

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From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the 10,000+ extraordinary species alive today.Tens of billions of birds share the planet with us, an astonishingly diverse array of species that are present nearly everywhere humans call home—and many places we do not. With their
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What a Fish Knows

The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

par Jonathan Balcombe ...

Lu par Graham Winton ...

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8 heure 13 min

A New York Times BestsellerDo fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the ... En savoir plus

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A New York Times BestsellerDo fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the
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Inside of a Dog

What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

par Alexandra Horowitz ...

Lu par Karen White ...

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10 heure 25 min

"Every dog owner should have this book." —Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah PodcastNOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED! The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller that “causes one’s dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude” (The New York Times Book Review).The instant classic on the mind of the dog is now updated to include the latest results in the booming field of dog cognition. What do dogs ... En savoir plus

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"Every dog owner should have this book." —Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah PodcastNOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED! The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller that “causes one’s dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude” (The New York Times Book Review).The instant classic on the mind of the dog is now updated to include the latest results in the booming field of dog cognition. What do dogs
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Mind of the Raven

Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds

par Bernd Heinrich ...

Lu par Norman Dietz ...

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16 heure 47 min

Bernd Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world. At the heart of this book are Heinrich's love and ... En savoir plus

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Bernd Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world. At the heart of this book are Heinrich's love and
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Living Planet

The Web of Life on Earth

par David Attenborough ...

Lu par David Attenborough ...

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11 heure 33 min

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean ... En savoir plus

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The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

par Frans de Waal ...

Lu par Sean Runnette ...

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10 heure 35 min

From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal’s? Maybe you think it’s your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future―all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet’s preeminent species. But in recent decades, ... En savoir plus

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From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal’s? Maybe you think it’s your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future―all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet’s preeminent species. But in recent decades,
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Beyond Words

What Animals Think and Feel

par Carl Safina ...

Lu par Carl Safina ...

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16 heure 6 min

Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, listeners travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and ... En savoir plus

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Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, listeners travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and
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The Trials of Life

A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

par David Attenborough ...

Lu par David Attenborough ...

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10 heure

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which this book is based.This is the third and last of Sir ... En savoir plus

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The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which this book is based.This is the third and last of Sir
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Squid Empire

The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

par Danna Staaf ...

Lu par Emily Durante ...

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7 heure 18 min

Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth's first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming. With dozens of tentacles and formidable shells, they presided over an undersea empire for ... En savoir plus

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Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth's first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming. With dozens of tentacles and formidable shells, they presided over an undersea empire for
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Aesop's Animals

The Science Behind the Fables

par Jo Wimpenny ...

Lu par Jennifer M. Dixon ...

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12 heure 43 min

Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements, but have the stories also informed how we regard their animal protagonists? If so, is there any truth behind the stereotypes? Are wolves deceptive ... En savoir plus

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Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements, but have the stories also informed how we regard their animal protagonists? If so, is there any truth behind the stereotypes? Are wolves deceptive
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Hidden Creatures

Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites

par Dino Martins ...

Lu par Dino Martins ...

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13 heure 12 min

**Welcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites—some of the most misunderstood creatures with whom we share the Earth (and our bodies)."Astonishing, eye-opening, and inspiring." —Chloe Dalton, author of Raising Hare**There is the tapeworm, which can grow 120 feet in length within the gut of a whale; the tsetse fly, a notorious vector of disease that can pierce the skin even of crocodiles ... En savoir plus

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**Welcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites—some of the most misunderstood creatures with whom we share the Earth (and our bodies)."Astonishing, eye-opening, and inspiring." —Chloe Dalton, author of Raising Hare**There is the tapeworm, which can grow 120 feet in length within the gut of a whale; the tsetse fly, a notorious vector of disease that can pierce the skin even of crocodiles
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The Life of Birds

par David Attenborough ...

Lu par David Attenborough ...

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9 heure 59 min

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic.BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.David Attenborough has been watching and learning all ... En savoir plus

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A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic.BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.David Attenborough has been watching and learning all
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The Secret Lives of Bats

My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

par Merlin Tuttle ...

Lu par Sean Runnette ...

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8 heure 42 min

A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect bats on every continent they inhabit. Enamored of bats ever since discovering a colony in a cave as a boy, Tuttle ... En savoir plus

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A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect bats on every continent they inhabit. Enamored of bats ever since discovering a colony in a cave as a boy, Tuttle
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Honeybee Democracy

par Thomas D. Seeley ...

Lu par Keith Sellon-Wright ...

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8 heure 3 min

Honeybees make decisions collectively—and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to ... En savoir plus

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Honeybees make decisions collectively—and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to
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The Co-Creation

How Earth Made Life and Life Made Earth

par Olivia Judson ...

Lu par Olivia Judson ...

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12 heure 24 min

**“A fascinating and original account of the history of life. It is full of new insights about evolution and history, and even more importantly—with new viewpoints.” —Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindA daring new planetary history, one that focuses our attention on the beautiful and dynamic dance between life and Earth, from Olivia Judson ... En savoir plus

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**“A fascinating and original account of the history of life. It is full of new insights about evolution and history, and even more importantly—with new viewpoints.” —Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindA daring new planetary history, one that focuses our attention on the beautiful and dynamic dance between life and Earth, from Olivia Judson
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Wesley the Owl

The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

par Stacey O'Brien ...

Lu par Renée Raudman ...

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6 heure 52 min

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl—a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing nineteen-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to ... En savoir plus

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On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl—a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing nineteen-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to
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Как животные

Что интимная жизнь насекомых, птиц и зверей говорит нам об эволюции и нас самих

par Менно Схилтхёйзен ...

Lu par Роберт-Борис Рыбаков ...

Collections series Кругозор Дениса Пескова
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9 heure 42 min

В этой книге слушателю предстоит узнать, как устройство репродуктивных органов связано с эволюционным успехом целых видов и какую неожиданную роль играют в этом паразиты и хищники. Именно эти группы живых существ нередко становятся движущей силой настоящей «гонки вооружений» между самцами и самками, заставляя стороны изобретать все более изощренные тактики спаривания и защиты. Автор описывает ... En savoir plus

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В этой книге слушателю предстоит узнать, как устройство репродуктивных органов связано с эволюционным успехом целых видов и какую неожиданную роль играют в этом паразиты и хищники. Именно эти группы живых существ нередко становятся движущей силой настоящей «гонки вооружений» между самцами и самками, заставляя стороны изобретать все более изощренные тактики спаривания и защиты. Автор описывает
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Занимательная зоология

par Александр Никольский ...

Lu par Дмитрий Пугачев ...

Collections series Советские учебники. Классика научпопа
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6 heure 17 min

Зачем осьминогу три сердца, а муравьям — сложная социальная иерархия? Как животные видят, слышат и чувствуют мир? Почему дельфины спасают сородичей? Ответы на эти и многие другие вопросы вы найдете в книге «Занимательная зоология» — живом и увлекательном проводнике в мир животных. В книге: - Как устроены органы чувств животных и почему они «сильнее» человеческих? - Почему насекомые, рыбы, птицы и ... En savoir plus

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Зачем осьминогу три сердца, а муравьям — сложная социальная иерархия? Как животные видят, слышат и чувствуют мир? Почему дельфины спасают сородичей? Ответы на эти и многие другие вопросы вы найдете в книге «Занимательная зоология» — живом и увлекательном проводнике в мир животных. В книге: - Как устроены органы чувств животных и почему они «сильнее» человеческих? - Почему насекомые, рыбы, птицы и
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Small Snapshot Of Birds, A

par Philip Stanworth ...

Lu par Philip Stanworth ...

Collections series All The books together
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28 min

An educational book for Children or anyone who loves birds lots of differnet birds from all around the world all hand drawn illastrationsit tells you a little about each bird perfect for Children as there are lots of pictures and not alot to read.If you are intrested in Birds or if your Child is staring to be intrested this is perfect for Children a starter book to get young Children intrested . ... En savoir plus

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An educational book for Children or anyone who loves birds lots of differnet birds from all around the world all hand drawn illastrationsit tells you a little about each bird perfect for Children as there are lots of pictures and not alot to read.If you are intrested in Birds or if your Child is staring to be intrested this is perfect for Children a starter book to get young Children intrested .
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Animal Weapons

The Evolution of Battle

par Douglas J. Emlen ...

Lu par Sean Runnette ...

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7 heure 19 min

In Animal Weapons, Douglas J. Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons—fish with mouths larger than their bodies and bugs whose heads are so packed with muscle they don’t have room for eyes.As singular and strange as some of the weapons are, we learn that similar factors ... En savoir plus

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In Animal Weapons, Douglas J. Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons—fish with mouths larger than their bodies and bugs whose heads are so packed with muscle they don’t have room for eyes.As singular and strange as some of the weapons are, we learn that similar factors
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Парадокс пениса: Уроки жизни из мира животных

par Эмили Уиллингем, Эмили Уиллингем ...

Lu par Анна Киршина ...

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8 heure 28 min

В человеческом обществе фаллос считается символом могущества и власти, и мы привыкли думать, что у этого представления есть крепкая биологическая основа. Научный журналист Эмили Уиллингем, рассказывая о ритуалах спаривания и пенисах животных, показывает, что у природы на этот орган были совсем другие планы, и создавался он не для того, чтобы его обладатели были наделены какими-либо преимуществами. ... En savoir plus

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В человеческом обществе фаллос считается символом могущества и власти, и мы привыкли думать, что у этого представления есть крепкая биологическая основа. Научный журналист Эмили Уиллингем, рассказывая о ритуалах спаривания и пенисах животных, показывает, что у природы на этот орган были совсем другие планы, и создавался он не для того, чтобы его обладатели были наделены какими-либо преимуществами.
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Zoology Audio Course

par Centre of Excellence ...

Lu par Brian Greyson ...

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2 heure 55 min

Zoology is a vast subject, encompassing all aspects of scientific knowledge about animals, such as embryonic development, evolution, behaviour, ecological distribution, and classification. The course provides an introduction to the natural world and its animal inhabitants.The study of animals and their habitats is so vast that it is broken down into five main branches. The course begins by looking ... En savoir plus

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Zoology is a vast subject, encompassing all aspects of scientific knowledge about animals, such as embryonic development, evolution, behaviour, ecological distribution, and classification. The course provides an introduction to the natural world and its animal inhabitants.The study of animals and their habitats is so vast that it is broken down into five main branches. The course begins by looking
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The History of Animals

par Aristotle ...

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11 heure 56 min

Aristotle's "The History of Animals" unravels the intricate tapestry of the animal kingdom through the mind of a brilliant philosopher. Embark on an enlightening journey exploring diverse species, their behaviors, and anatomy, as Aristotle meticulously categorizes and observes the living world. This seminal work not only lays the foundation for zoological sciences but also offers rich insights ... En savoir plus

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Aristotle's "The History of Animals" unravels the intricate tapestry of the animal kingdom through the mind of a brilliant philosopher. Embark on an enlightening journey exploring diverse species, their behaviors, and anatomy, as Aristotle meticulously categorizes and observes the living world. This seminal work not only lays the foundation for zoological sciences but also offers rich insights
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