Books about animal behavior

Providing an understanding of how animals think and feel, this book is from one of the world's most celebrated animal scientists.

This volume aims to unlock the secrets behind dog behaviour.

A delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures, from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves. It is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends!

Arguments that animals possess an emotional life are often dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. This book challenges that notion by proposing that the objective scientific evidence for human emotions is all but non-existent.

Every single cat carries an inheritance of amazing sensory capacities, vocal utterances, body language and territorial displays. 'What does a cat signal with its ears?' 'Why does your cat tear at the fabric of your chair?' Addressing these questions, this work gives an insight into the nature of your cat.

From the author of 'THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DOGS' comes 'The Secret Life of Cats'.

'I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes the author in this chronicle of a scientist's coming of age in remote Africa. He writes about people and their society as he does about animals and theirs.

Many people believe that cats do not have an emotional life. The author is convinced that, on the contrary cats are almost pure emotion. He reports on his close observations of their emotional lives. These he divides into nine categories and to each of which he devotes a chapter.

This new edition of Animal Behavior maintains the organizational structure of previous editions, but has been completely rewritten with coverage of much recent work in animal behaviour, resulting in a thoroughly up-to-date text.

This is a sequel to In The Shadow of Man . Seen through the window Jane Goodall opens up for us, the saga of the wild chimpanzees is as captivating as the story of any human community.

An enlightening and entertaining account of the unique relationship between humans and their pets. It offers a delightful insight into animal and human thinking and feeling. An essential companion for all dog lovers!

When this work was first published it created a discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. In the introduction Edward Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience has strengthened the case for biological understanding of human nature.

When Monty Roberts was 13 years old he went off on his own to the deserts of Nevada to watch Mustangs in the wild. What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life and earned him recognition among horse breeders and trainers around the world. This is his autobiography.

A gifted and successful animal scientist, the author, who is autistic, tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving the world in an entirely concrete and visual way - somewhat akin to how animals think. She gives an insight into autism and its challenges using her observed understanding of the workings of her mind.

An informative guide in which dog expert Stanley Coren explores the amazingly nuanced range of canine expression, reveals what your dog is saying to you with its body language and voice and - just as important - explains how to make yourself understood by your dog.

Based on award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff's years studying social communication in a wide range of species, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of animal joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, and love with the latest scientific research confirming the existence of emotions that common sense and experience have ...