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For the Love of a Dog
Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
by Patricia B. McConnell
Yes, humans and canines are different species, but current research provides fascinating, irrefutable evidence that what we share with our dogs is greater than how we vary. As behaviorist and zoologist Dr. Patricia McConnell tells us in this remarkable new book about emotions in dogs and in people, more and more scientists accept the premise that dogs have rich emotional lives, exhibiting a wide range of feelings... (more)
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Dogs Never Lie About Love
Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Dogs fill our hearts with love and our minds with wonder, but their emotional lives have remained unexplored since Darwin 125 years ago. Now in Dogs Never Lie About Love , controversial psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson brilliantly navigates the rich inner landscape of "our best friends." As he guides readers through the surprising depth of canine emotional complexity, Jeffrey Masson draws from myth and literature,... (more)
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The Other End of the Leash
Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
by Patricia B. McConnell
The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell looks at humans as just another interesting species, and muses about why we behave the way we do around our dogs, how dogs might interpret our... (more)
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King Solomon's Ring
New Light on Animal Ways
by Konrad Lorenz
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 -- this is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends!
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When Elephants Weep
The Emotional Lives of Animals
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
A study of the complex emotional lives of animals provides fascinating insights into and anecdotes about the existence of animal emotion and offers a compelling analysis of the ways in which humans treat animals. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
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The Truth about Dogs
An Inquiry into Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris
by Stephen Budiansky
Dogs: Man's best friends-or canine con artists? For centuries dogs have stolen our hearts, our homes, and our wallets. Just how do dogs get otherwise reasonable adults to feed them sirloin, let them occupy easy chairs, and generally allow them to regulate our every waking hour? In this provocative, entertaining, and wholly admiring reappraisal of our canine companions, Stephen Budiansky calls upon the latest... (more)
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Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, Eighth Edition
by John Alcock
This new edition of Animal Behavior has been completely rewritten with coverage of much recent work in animal behavior, resulting in a thoroughly up-to-date text. Notable is the inclusion, for the first time, of discussion questions embedded in the text itself, rather than appended to the end of each chapter. This format is designed to encourage students to reflect on the material they have just digested while... (more)
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The Ethology of Domestic Animals: An Introductory Text
This book provides a basic, introductory, text on the behavior of domestic animals, a subject that is now taught to a wide range of students. Key features include: Chapters on general issues such as behavior genetics, physiology and motivation, and social and reproductive behavor; separate chapters on the behavior of individual farm animal species and on dogs and cats, rabbits and rodents; and authoritative... (more)
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Canine Body Language
A Photographic Guide: Interpreting the Native Language of the Domestic Dog
by Brenda Aloff
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On Aggression
by Konrad Lorenz
Hugely controversial on publication, this is an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behavior and the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world.
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Man Meets Dog
by Konrad Lorenz
In this wonderful book, the famous scientist and best-selling author, Konrad Lorenz, "the man who talked with animals," enlightens and entertains us with his illustrated account of the unique relationship between humans and their pets.
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Introduction to Ethology
by Klaus Immelmann, Ekkehard Pröve, Roland Sossinka
Text: Englishoriginal: German
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Peoplewatching
by Desmond Morris
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Cephalopod Behaviour
by Roger T. Hanlon
There are about 700 species of cephalopods (including the cuttlefishes, squids, octopods, and the chambered nautilus) living throughout the seas of the world. They are considered to be the most highly evolved marine invertebrates and possess elaborate sense organs, large brains and complex behavior. This book examines such behavior, summarizing field and laboratory data from a wide variety of sources in the... (more)
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How Dogs Think
What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do
by Stanley Coren
It's been said that dogs personify all the virtues of humans without the vices. Henry James wrote that his dog was "most reasonable and well-mannered" and Plato that "a dog has the soul of a philosopher." Over the years, dogs have taught us many things: loyalty, courage, and to turn around three times before lying down. Yet even in the face of millennia of evidence of thoughtful dogs, there has been little... (more)
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Eigentlich wollte ich Wildgans werden
Aus meinem Leben
by Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), der »Vater der Graugänse«, war einer der einflußreichsten und zugleich umstrittensten Naturwissenschaftler der 20. Jahrhunderts. In diesem Selbstporträt erzählt Lorenz von seinem Leben, seiner Familie, seiner Wissenschaft. Was macht die Bedeutung seines wissenschaftlichen Werks aus? Warum ist Lorenz bis heute wichtig, warum ist er umstritten? Auf diese Fragen antworten in zwei Beiträgen... (more)
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Die Pferdeflüsterin erzählt
by Andrea Kutsch
Ein unberittenes Pferd innerhalb von nur 20 Minuten vor Tausenden von Zuschauern an Sattel, Trense und Reiter gewöhnen, das schafft nur Monty Roberts. Und seine beste Schülerin: Andrea Kutsch. Sie durfte als Auserwählte an seine Seite treten und führt heute viele Tourneen mit ihm gemeinsam durch. Was auf Zuschauer so geheimnisvoll wirkt, ist das Eingehen auf die nonverbale Sprache der Pferde. Gewalt ist verpönt.... (more)
Grzimek's Encyclopedia of ethologyBernhard Grzimek
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Grzimek's Encyclopedia of ethology
by Bernhard Grzimek
Text: English, German (translation)
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Through a Window
My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
by Jane Goodall
Through aWindow is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of an intimately intertwined community—one that reads like a novel, but is one of the most important scientific works ever published.The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where the principal residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman who is their student, protector, and historian. In her classic In the Shadow of... (more)
Mountain Sheep : A Study in Behavior and Evolution. Wildlife Behavior and Ecology SeriesValerius Geist
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Mountain Sheep : A Study in Behavior and Evolution. Wildlife Behavior and Ecology Series
by Valerius Geist