An illustrated study of animal behaviour, exploring the key groups of animals that inhabit this planet and their survival strategies. It helps you learn how fish can be the most caring of parents, how cuttlefish seduce with colour, how penguin chicks learn the hard way and how monkeys and apes teach their young to use tools.

A personal view of the natural world

With over a million copies already sold this is the bestselling story of how one adorable and lovably roguish library cat touched the lives of everyone he came into contact with.

Bring your garden to life and enjoy the bounty of fresh eggs from your own small flock of happy hens.

A guide to 2009-2010 Jumps season. It includes trainer interviews, expert ten to follow picks, Ireland's hopes for the winter, Racing Post Ratings snips for the season, Top speed stats for the best on the clock, comprehensive statistics and fixtures to the end of the season.

Dean Koontz's first ever nonfiction book, the deeply moving story of his life with his good dog Trixie

Whether it's chewing inappropriate things, stealing food, chasing cyclists or being over-possessive with toys, all dogs do something that their owner finds strange or antisocial. This book focuses on troublesome and odd behaviour in dogs. It provides tips on how to prevent and cure his 'bad' habits.

Whales that look like unicorns, lizards that squirt jets of blood from their eyes, naked rats that can sprint backwards. It seems as though some creatures have been put on this earth just to make us laugh. This book presents animals from the harmless but hilarious to the truly frightening and deadly.

The Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. This book reveals the riverine and marine worlds from the salmon's point of view. It explores the salmon's life cycle and places the fish in its evolutionary context - one that is much closer to man's than we might imagine.

Storm petrels fly from a midnight sea in June to their nesting holes in a two-thousand-year-old stone tower; a million starlings gather to roost from all points across a freezing winter sky; and migrant redstarts, only weeks out of their nest, set off over alien seas on their way to Africa. This book records a lifetime of looking at birds.

With more than 100 photographs of pigs playing, being dressed up, relaxing and socializing, and some facts about them too, this book helps you get to know these charming, smart, loveable and cute animals as they really are - from snout to tail. It is suitable for those who recognize the intelligence and warmth of these fascinating creatures.

Join zoologist Mark Carwardine and Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as they follow in their great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth.

Focuses on troublesome cat behaviour. This book offers explanations about what your cat's thinking when she acts in the way she does, explains those actions you might find unusual and provides advice on how to prevent and cure her 'bad' habits.

Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans are only a hair's breadth away from us in evolutionary terms; our DNA differs by just a few per cent. This work reveals the Great Apes in detail: where they live, how they live and the challenges they face.

Features identification and details on lifestyle and habitat for 216 species of bird commonly found in Britain, and a further 117 rarer species whose irregular visits add excitement to the birdwatcher's year.

A guide to all 250 horses in the tote's highly successful Ten to Follow competition. It lists each horse alphabetically and gives a profile.

Since its inception in 1996, Buiug Cat Diary has grown steadily in popularity, its profile rising with each new series so that it now attracts audiences of seven million. In autumn 2008, BCD was broadcast live for the first time in what has been described as the BBC Natural History Unit's most ambitious outside broadcast ever.

With collective nouns for animal groups, this title tells you what to call a group of zebras, chickens, parrots, spiders, tigers or penguins, and lets you know the difference between a school and a shoal of fish as well as why groups of swans are known as a lamentation, a bank and a wedge.

From spotting Britain's five kinds of owl to gardening by the phases of the moon, and from curing a cold to brewing your own ale, this book features instructions and lists, ancient customs and old wives tales.