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My backyard jungle : the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it / by Barilla, James,1967-(CARDINAL)474621;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-353) and index.Certified -- Zoos without bars -- Little Eden -- The "monkey menace" -- The night visitor -- Backyard bruins -- Notes from a twenty-first century rat catcher -- Bees of Brooklyn -- Zoopolis.
Subjects: Urban ecology (Biology); Habitat (Ecology); Animals and civilization.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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The mythical zoo : animals in myth, legend, and literature / by Sax, Boria.(CARDINAL)726614;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index of animals.Introduction : Animals as tradition -- Almost human -- Tricksters -- Sages -- Just beautiful -- Musicians -- Tooth and claw -- Mermaid's companions -- The barnyard -- Man's best friends -- Beasts of burden -- Noble adversaries -- Tough guys -- From the underground -- By the seashore -- Lost souls -- Weird and wonderful -- Behemoths and Leviathans -- Divinities -- Epilogue : What is a human being?"From Aesop's Fables to Mockingjay, animals have always played a pivotal role in human culture. Even today, animals wield symbolic powers as varied as the cultures that embrace them. Sacred cows, wily serpents, fearsome lions, elegant swans, busy bees, and sly foxes--all are caricatures of the creatures themselves, yet they reflect not only how different cultures see the natural world around them but also how such cultures make use of their native animals. In this fun and thought-provoking book, historian and animal enthusiast Boria Sax argues for a classification of animals that goes beyond the biological to encompass a more meaningful distinction: tradition. From ants and elephants to tigers and tortoises, The Mythical Zoo weaves together a crosscultural tapestry encompassing mythology, history, art, science, philosophy, and literature. The result is a beautifully illustrated, masterfully composed love letter to the animal kingdom"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Animals and civilization.; Animals in literature.; Animals, Mythical.; Animals; Animals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Animal spirits. by Saunders, Micholas J.;
Subjects: Animals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The age of deer : trouble and kinship with our wild neighbors / by Howsare, Erika,author.(CARDINAL)884497;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-336).In this masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies, the author investigates our connection with deer, from mythology to biology, offering a unique and intimate perfective on a very human relationship while inviting us to contemplate the paradoxes of how we interact with and shape the natural world.
Subjects: Deer.; Human-animal relationships.; Animal welfare.; Animals and civilization.;
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 25
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Galloping through history : amazing true horse stories / by MacLeod, Elizabeth,author.(CARDINAL)209876;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From the time people first rode horses more than 5,000 years ago, these amazing creatures have changed the way humans live, travel, fight, work, and play. In her captivating storytelling style, Elizabeth MacLeod brings to life six of the most exciting horses that have influenced the course of civilization.1030L
Subjects: Horses; Animals and civilization; Animals and history;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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30 animals that made us smarter : stories of the natural world that inspired human ingenuity / by Aryee, Patrick,author.; Bright, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)327297; Harper, Lizzie,illustrator.(CARDINAL)834883;
Blueprints -- The kingfisher and the bullet train -- Octopus: the ultimate disguise -- Return from the dead: the tardigrade -- A woodpecker and a black box -- Polar bears and insulation -- Mosquitoes, wasps and advances in medical technology -- Master-builders: termites -- Cod and the cold -- Elephant trunks and bionic arms -- Birds, bats and bots -- Fog harvesters -- Sharks and hospitals -- Explosive back end: bombardier beetle -- Wind farm animals -- Hedgehogs and helmets -- Packing a punch: mantis shrimp -- Snake: search and rescue -- Natural architects and artists: butterflies -- Giant fish and body armour -- Cows and eco-friendly sewage -- Pollution solution: manta rays -- Glues from life to save life... and make cupboards! -- Cats and road safety -- High-rise sponges -- Camels and cool medicine -- Lobsters and space telescopes -- Waterloo Station and pangolins -- Swarms of ants and mini-bots -- Implants and shocking tales -- Incy wincy rescue -- 'The machines aren't coming: they're already here'."Accompanying a new series of the hit BBC podcast, a fascinating exploration of how the animal world has inspired human progress via new inventions and solutions that impact our daily lives. Did you know that mosquitoes' mouthparts are helping to develop pain-free surgical needles? Who'd have thought that the humble mussel could inspire so many useful things, from plywood production to a 'glue' that cements the crowns on teeth and saves unborn babies in the womb? How about the fact that studying the tiny kingfisher solved engineering problems with Japan's ultra-high-speed bullet train, or that the humpback whale's flipper helped design the most efficient blades for wind power turbines? For many years, humans have been using the natural world as inspiration for everything from fashion to architecture, and medicine to transport, and it may come as a surprise to learn how many inventions have been motivated by animal design and behaviour. Dive into the depths with us as author Patrick Aryee reveals even more astonishing stories about animals' exceptional powers and the unique contributions they've made to the quality of our everyday lives. Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations accompany his revelations and bring the natural world to life."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Technological innovations.; Animals and civilization.; Animal mechanics.; Animal behavior.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14
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The lion's historian : Africa's animal past / by Swart, Sandraauthor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.""Until the lion has a historian of his own, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." Sandra Swart takes up the challenge of that African proverb and, with this book, becomes the lion's historian. As a species, humans are not alone; but our history has been written as though we were. Swart insists on a multispecies retelling of our more-than-human past as she reconstructs a shifting series of significant interspecies relationships, from quirky, idiosyncratic connections to others that triggered major changes. Embracing a radical interdisciplinarity informed by a background in history and environmental studies, Swart combines the natural sciences with the social sciences, oral history, indigenous knowledge, and archival research. She blends current thinking about animal sentience, agency, cognition, and emotion to offer a new way to understand animals' role in our shared history. The animals in this book-baboons, cows, elephants, hippos, horses, jackals, lions, Nazi cattle, okapi, police dogs,quagga, sheep, and white ants-exemplify different facets of our shared past. With this animal-centric lens, decades of research are brought together in a collection that takes animals seriously. It is a book with claws and fangs, tearing through conventional narratives to ask, Are we prepared to move beyond the convention that "history" is the story of only our own species? The entanglements between humans and other animals have shaped our past, but they suggest something more. The possibility of our shared future pivots on a reckoning with our shared pasts. Swart shows what human-animal history can do, not only to understand our place in the world better but to make our world-however slightly-a better place"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Human-animal relationships; Animals and civilization; Animals;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tamed : ten species that changed our world / by Roberts, Alice,1973-author.(CARDINAL)425103;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-348) and index.In Tamed, Alice Roberts uncovers the deep history of ten familiar species with incredible wild pasts, dogs, apples and wheat; cattle, potatoes and chickens; rice, maize and horses and, finally, humans. She reveals how becoming part of our world changed these animals and plants, and shows how they became our allies, essential to the survival and success of our own species. Enlightening, wide-ranging and endlessly fascinating, Tamed encompasses thousands of years of history and archaeology alongside cutting-edge genetics and anthropology. Yet it is also a deeply personal journey that changes how we see ourselves and the species on which we have left our mark.
Subjects: Animals; Animals and civilization.; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Domestication.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Abe & Bruno [videorecording] / by Allen, Kevin Scott.; Charr, Henri.(CARDINAL)828235; Metz, Blythe.; Sergi, Brad J.;
Brad J. Sergi, Kevin Scott Allen, Blythe Metz, James Warnock.Originally broadcast on television in 2006. Bruno, a silverback gorilla, must elude a small-town sheriff and the zoo to help his human companion Abe.MPAA rating: PG.DVD, Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Animal films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Made-for-TV movies.; Animals and civilization; Gorilla; Human-animal relationships;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Raiders, rulers, and traders [sound recording] : the horse and the rise of empires / by Chaffetz, David,author.(CARDINAL)506250; Boehmer, Paul,narrator.(CARDINAL)825216;
Read by Paul Boehmer.No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe. Later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long-distance trade routes, and ended up acquiring deep cultural and religious significance. Drawing on recent research in fields including genetics and forensic archeology, David Chaffetz tells the story of how the horse made rulers, raiders, and traders interchangeable, providing a novel explanation for the turbulent history of the Silk Road, which might be better called the Horse Road.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; World history.; Horses; Human-animal relationships.; Animals and civilization.; Civilization, Ancient.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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