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The pattern of animal communities / by Elton, Charles S.(Charles Sutherland),1900-1991.(CARDINAL)321383;
"References": pages 385-409.
Subjects: Animal ecology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Becoming wild : how animal cultures raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace / by Safina, Carl,1955-author.(CARDINAL)327979;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance. You receive it from thousands of individuals, from pools of knowledge passing through generations like an eternal torch. You too may raise young, know beauty, or struggle to negotiate a peace. And your culture, too, changes and evolves. The light of knowledge needs adjusting as situations change, so a capacity for learning, especially social learning, allows behaviors to adjust, to change much faster than genes alone could adapt. Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of individuals in different present-day animal societies. By showing how others teach and learn, Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity. With reporting from deep in nature, alongside individual creatures in their free-living communities, this book offers a very privileged glimpse behind the curtain of Life on Earth, and helps inform the answer to that most urgent of questions: Who are we here with?"--
Subjects: Animal communities.; Animal societies.;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 19
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Becoming wild [large print]: how animal cultures, raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace / by Safina, Carl,1955-author.(CARDINAL)327979;
Includes bibliographical references.Prologue -- Realm one: Raising families. Sperm whales -- Realm two: Creating beauty. Scarlet macaws -- Realm three: Achieving peace. Chimpanzees -- Epilogue."Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance. You receive it from thousands of individuals, from pools of knowledge passing through generations like an eternal torch. You too may raise young, know beauty, or struggle to negotiate a peace. And your culture, too, changes and evolves. The light of knowledge needs adjusting as situations change, so a capacity for learning, especially social learning, allows behaviors to adjust, to change much faster than genes alone could adapt. Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of individuals in different present-day animal societies. By showing how others teach and learn, Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity. With reporting from deep in nature, alongside individual creatures in their free-living communities, this book offers a very privileged glimpse behind the curtain of life on Earth, and helps inform the answer to that most urgent of questions: Who are we here with?"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Animal communities.; Animal societies.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Animal communities in temperate America, as illustrated in the Chicago region; a study in animal ecology / by Shelford, Victor E.(Victor Ernest),1877-1968.(CARDINAL)324057;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336; "Bibliographical appendix": pages 337-341).
Subjects: Animal ecology.; Zoology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The social lives of animals / by Ward, Ashley,author.(CARDINAL)485939;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction - Brown ale and cannibalism -- Honey, I fed the kids (and now I'm going to explode) -- From ditches to decisions -- Clusterflocks -- Getting into mischief -- Following the herd -- Blood's thicker than water -- Codas and cultures -- War and peace -- Epilogue."A rat will go out of its way to help a cold, wet stranger. Cockroaches pass down generational knowledge, hyenas form personal relationships with members of different species, and ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competition? Why do we believe that humans are special for their ability to live and work together, or worse, that human society is somehow "unnatural"? In The Social Lives of Animals, animal behavior expert Ashely Ward embarks on a global search to reveal the surprising, delightful, and occasionally downright strange ways that animals build and manage societies, with both members of their own species and others. Ward studies how shoals of krill search for food by plying them with beer, visits baboons in Namibia that work for hire as goatherds, wades through a literal river of shit to study how groupthink spreads among sticklebacks, and swims with a family of sperm whales that adopted an orphaned dolphin. By studying animal societies on their own terms, we can see clearly that human societies may not be so unique. Rather, human social life may be just one version of a basic animal instinct. Biology has, since Darwin, tried to understand species by studying how they compete. But in the end, The Social Lives of Animals shows that you can often learn more about animals, including humans, by studying how they work together than by how they tear each other apart"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Animal communities.; Social behavior in animals.; Animal behavior.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Before & after : a book of nature timescapes. by Thornhill, Jan.(CARDINAL)317530;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Animal communities; Animal communities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The Ecology of fossils : an illustrated guide / by McKerrow, W. S.(CARDINAL)320086;
Bibliography: pages 370-376.
Subjects: Animal communities.; Paleoecology.; Paleontology, Stratigraphic.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Wild animal groups / by Romero, Libby,author.(CARDINAL)354944;
"Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how and why wild animals live in groups. Children will love to find out about the unusual words for animal groups, and how living together in groups helps animals to survive in the wild."--760L
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Informational works.; Animal societies; Animal communities;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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Hidden habitats : water / by Murray, Lily,author.(CARDINAL)679131; Hawthorne, Lara,illustrator.(CARDINAL)430863;
"The smallest areas of the natural world can contain a diverse web of life. Peer into a tide pool, explore the roots of a mangrove tree, take a swim through a water hole, climb to a leaf pool in the rain forest, dive down to the dark ocean floor, visit a peat bog, plunge deep into an underwater cave, and snorkel near a coral reef." --
Subjects: Lift-the-flap books.; Picture books.; Toy and movable books.; Animal communities; Marine animals;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Learning to be wild : how animals achieve peace, create beauty, and raise families / by Safina, Carl,1955-author.(CARDINAL)327979;
"From New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina comes a young readers adaptation of the notable book Becoming Wild that explores community, culture, and belonging through the lives of chimpanzees, macaws, and sperm whales. What do chimpanzees, macaws,and whales all have in common? Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But that's not true! Culture is passed down from parent to child in all sorts of animal communities. It is the common ground that three very different animals - chimpanzees, macaws, and whales - share. Discover through the lives of chimpanzees in Uganda, scarlet macaws in Peru, and sperm whales in the Caribbean how they - and we - are all connected, in this wondrous journey around the globe"--Grades 7-9Ages 10-14940L
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Animal communities; Animal societies;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 17
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