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  Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa

  by Kevin Richardson

  About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube® of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park.   The film showed Richardson in his day-to-day work, looking some of the world's most dangerous animals directly in the eye, crouching down at their level, playing with them and, sometimes, even kissing them on the nose--all without ever being attacked or injured.... (more)
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  Soul of a Lion

  One Woman's Quest to Rescue Africa's Wildlife Refugees

  by Barbara Bennett

  For animal lovers, nature enthusiasts, and the vast readership for gripping true-life stories, this African saga is a must-read adventure. It chronicles the unique Harnas Wildlife Foundation in Namibia, where Marieta van der Merwe and her family, former wealthy cattle farmers, have sold land to buy and care for embattled wildlife. We meet Sam, the "AIDS" lion infected by mistake at a vet clinic. Boerjke, a baboon... (more)
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  Why Dogs Eat Poop and Other Useless or Gross Information About the Animal Kingdom

  by Francesca Gould, David Haviland

  A third installment in the delightfully disgusting miscellany series that began with the national bestseller, Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body . In the New York Times (extended list) bestseller Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body , Francesca Gould uncovered everything you'd want to know-and a few... (more)
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  The Marsh Lions: The Story of an African Pride (Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature))

  by Brian Jackman, Jonathan Scott

  The Marsh Lions tells the story of a pride of lions in Kenya’s world-famous Masai Mara game reserve.  For five years, Brian Jackman and Jonathan Scott followed the Marsh pride and their progeny, recording the daily drama of life and death on the African plains. In time they came to regard them as old and familiar friends and real individuals. The Marsh Lions were the most successful group to be filmed for Big Cat... (more)
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  A Place in the Sun

  by Mark A. Schoedl

  A lion meets a lone leopard resting in the trees away from him. The lion wants to fight but the leopard resists. Soon the mask comes off: "Why don't you come down and fight like a leopard; you, the strongest pound for pound creature on the Serengeti." ""No," the leopard responds, "go pick on somebody your own size." With all the bullying and harassment in today’s schools, I just thought this was the most poignant... (more)
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  A Zooful of Animals by Cole, William R. published by Sandpiper Paperback

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  Pinduli

  by Janell Cannon

  Pinduli's mama has always told her that she's the most beautiful hyena ever. But Dog, Lion, and Zebra don't think so. Why else would they make her feel so rotten about her big ears, her fuzzy mane, and her wiggly stripes? Poor Pinduli just wants to disappear--and she tries everything she can think of to make that happen. Yet nothing goes her way. Nothing, that is, until a case of mistaken identity lets her show... (more)
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  Spotted Hyena: A Study of Predation and Social Behavior (Wildlife Behavior & Ecology)

  by Hans Kruuk

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  Animals Nobody Loves

  by Seymour Simon

  In 26 giant photographs-of a roaring grizzly, a piranha’s razor-sharp teeth, a rattlesnake’s poisonous fangs- Seymour Simon reveals the truth about nature’s most misunderstood animals and lets the reader decide what to really think about nature’s grossest, fiercest, and most fascinating survivors.
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  Do You Know the Difference?pb (The Animal Family Series)

  by Andrea Bischhoff-Miersch

  Does the leopard live in Africa and the jaguar in South America, or is it the other way around? How do you tell them apart, anyway? This book explores some of the lookalikes found in the animal kingdom, and explains the apparent similarities and the all-important differences. Full-color illustrations.
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  Digger: Book 1

  Digger, Vol. 1

  by Ursula Vernon

  Digger is a story about a wombat. More specifically, it is a story about a particularly no-nonsense wombat who finds herself stuck on the wrong end of a one-way tunnel in a strange land where nonsense seems to be the specialty. Now with the help of a talking statue of a god, an outcast hyena, a shadow-being of undeterminate origin, and an oracular slug, she seeks to find out where she is and how to go about... (more)
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  Digger: Book 3

  Digger volume 3

  by Ursula Vernon

  In this third volume of Digger, covering chapters five and six of Ursula Vernon's webcomic, our wombat Heroine is driven from the protective care of the Hag by the persistent efforts of Captain Jhalm. Back in the strange world outside the temple of Ganesh, Digger encounters friends new and old, while often confronting the age-old question of the nature of good and evil. Seemingly simple answers lead to complicated... (more)
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  Digger: Book 2

  Digger volume 2

  by Ursula Vernon

  The second collection of Digger is here, featuring the third and fourth chapters of the highly acclaimed webcomic. Digger is still lost in the strange land she discovered at the end of a one-way tunnel, which now seems more intentional than accidental. A seemingly innocuous fossil she picked up on the way is suspected of having more to it than meets the eye, and the beneficient talking statue of Ganesh has a need... (more)
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  Escape Under the Forever Sky

  by Eve Yohalem

  Loosely based on real-life events this suspenseful story by a debut novelist is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia so Lucy's life must be one big adventure right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her locked up inside the ambassador's residence. All Lucy can do is read about the exotic and exciting world that lies beyond... (more)