(Part 3) Best zoology books according to redditors
We found 290 Reddit comments discussing the best zoology books. We ranked the 102 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
47. The Herring Gull's World: A Study of the Social Behaviour of Birds (The New Naturalist)
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I generally stay away from "this is what we're meant to do cause of history or evolution" conversations since they're totally irrelevant to what we should do today and they always risk letting people get into call to nature fallacies and shutting down debate.
However, I totally recommend An Unnatural Order by Jim Mason as it takes an interesting look at the development of society from an anthropological perspective.
He makes a pretty good case we were originally "foragers" with a focus on gathering the readily available foods (e.g. berries, plants, remains of animals killed by actual predators etc.) not "hunter gathers" with a focus on hunting for just about all of our development. He suggests it was only very recently we came to think of ourselves as the "predators" on top the food chain with dominion over all animals and previously were much more in tune with the natural world as a component requiring knowledge to forage, not a ruler for the hundreds of thousands of years of our development.
This is all pretty obvious if you figure we've only domesticated animals and farmed for 10,000 years and our modern homo sapiens sapiens species have existed for ~200,000 years. We tend to forget that our society as we think of it now is extremely new even for our modern species and claims to nature should probably look back more than a few thousand years.
Anyway it's all very interesting but ultimately irrelevant as we don't need to eat animals today.
Whenever I hear about an out of print book on birds, I immediately think “Handbook of bird biology” from Cornell University. They do an online class with it, and at one point it was out of print and HIGHLY sought after. There were copies online going for several thousand dollars.
Third edition came out a couple years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Bird-Biology-Cornell-Ornithology-dp-1118291050/dp/1118291050/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1555064840
The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker is a fascinating read.
We had boer goats and man were they the epitome of annoyance described in this thread. There is an interesting book on hiking with goats (you read that right) which said a good rule for choosing a breed to hike with is that anything with floppy ears will never listen to you.
I just read “Tenth Legion” by Col Tom Kelly. From what I understand, it is considered to be The essential turkey book. It’s also very funny and enjoyable. I bought it from the authors website and he sent it to me autographed with a turkey feather inside the cover.
The other one I was looking at was Turkey Hunting A one man Game, haven’t read it though. There are a few turkey books on Amazon.
If you are going to pick one though go with Tenth Legion
Ok new recommendation that isn't a novel this time. I personally love Certainly More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast. It is mostly a book about specific fish species, but Milton Love (only his wife gets to call him Dr. Love) is an excellent and very comical writer. Half way through the book he even takes an intermission to talk about marine bio stuff that isn't fish.
Hi, I saw this late but figured I would offer an explanation as I'm a zooarchaeologist.
Cattle domestication can be split into several events, depending on where you are in the world. The Eurasian Auroch (Bos taurus) was around 10,500 years ago. There were also domestication events in India and Java somewhat later on.
There has been quite a bit of work in both genetics and traditional archaeology about Cow domestication. The (mitochondrial) genetics has suggested that a small number of cattle were domesticated in the near east and their descendents transported into Europe, where there was limited interbreeding with local Aurochs.
(see papers [here] (http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/03/14/molbev.mss092.short) and [here] (http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/274/1616/1377.abstract))
This makes sense as the domestic cows were somewhat smaller than the wild ones, and might well have been less aggressive, as aggression is one of the first things that gets breed out of domestic animals (and has a variety of unintended consequences).
How is an interesting question, it was probably directed selection - this means that people might have set out to bring some animals under control. Control means many things but in its purest form means having influence over reproduction. This could have come from penning animals, or at least protecting a herd and attempting to choose when/or with who, animals reproduced.
Given the difficulties involved that one experiment was not reproduced. That one group of pioneers are probably responsible for most European cows. Maybe their local cows were less aggressive? Maybe smaller, maybe more inquisitive. Its not really known. Just that one group of people managed to pull it off, and from that flowed domestic cattle.
For scientific papers see [here] (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631069110002982) and [here] (http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jbuL_9dMxGUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA227&dq=Pathways+to+Animal+Domestication+zeder&ots=d8ojIpPF50&sig=qDaV_IkTDu6UkWmRzJS1viBU5tE#v=onepage&q=Pathways%20to%20Animal%20Domestication%20zeder&f=false)
A general introduction is Juliette Clutton-Brocks 'A walking Larder' http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Walking-Larder-Domestication-Pastoralism/dp/0044459009
And a more upto date book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beastly-Questions-Animal-Answers-Archaeological/dp/1472506758
I've been reading Vilem Flusser's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis it is crazy in all of the best ways.
You might enjoy The Politics of Species.
There are also the somewhat more "textbook" approaches such as Conservation Biology for All and the famous A Primer of Conservation Biology by Richard Primack
Mimus polyglottos or Mockingbird
third post on amazon?
Here's the story about the March 26 incident. Excerpt:
>“He comes back to my canoe and latches onto the back end of it. He’s not about to let go,” Bernstone recalled. “So I turn around and start beating him with my paddle.” Finally, the animal released the canoe from its clutches...The shark made a third pass, this time capsizing the watercraft and sending the 74-year-old Bernstone spilling into open ocean...“He was right there (when I was in the water)....“I was beating him over the head with my paddle to get him to let loose.”
(An initial news account that says Bernstone was bitten was later corrected to say he suffered a small cut while falling off his canoe.)
>In addition, only shark encounters that involve someone being injured are listed, not when a shark bites a board or boat.
If DLNR wants to consider this a non-incident, thereby excluding it from the listing, that is their prerogative. The man in the March 2018 attack was also knocked into the water from his paddle board. He then lost part of his leg to the shark.
>For more on sharks in Hawai‘i and ocean safety tips...
For more on the historical pattern of sharks-human encounters in Hawaii, please visit THE ANNOTATED LIST OF SHARK ATTACKS IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS,1779-1993.
I also suggest reading former Honolulu Advertiser reporter Jim Borg's book Tigers of the Sea. Borg, who extensively reported on the early 1990s Shark Task Force, discusses how the authors of Hawaii's prominent 1994 shark study excluded several incidents from qualifying as a shark attack, including the disappearance of Bryan Adona on Oahu's North Shore in Feb. 1992 and missing diver Ray Mehl (p. 53-54).
Apparently some parties find it convenient to have the list of Hawaii shark incidents be as short as possible. It is unfortunate that researcher George Balazs, author of the Annotated List, is no longer available to provide accurate, detailed information about human-shark encounters in Hawaii.
Well, one of the classics is The Herring Gull's World by Niko Tinbergen.
I've heard good things of Gifts of the Crow but never read it.
Migrating Raptors of the World is a fantastic book that everyone should read, and I am totally not biased by knowing the author. It's a little more ornithological than the other two, which are intended for the intelligent general public. It's an excellent synthesis of all the relevant research, and both easy to read and written at a fairly high level.
Every individual is different and the diagnostic criteria takes this in account so two individuals with BPD might only share one symptom. In regards to reading about auditory hallucinations I'd start at the wikipedia page and if you're really interested I'd recommend this book but be warned it is not ment for laymen. In regards to the specifics of auditory hallucinations for individuals with BPD you'll have to look for research articles as the field is still in its infancy and fairly complex but I'd start with this article
We fundamentally disagree. But I can guess that you're a Western male who's probably fairly independent and not disabled. That's why you're able to treat animal rights as an isolated issue. I think that conversations about systems of oppression and cultural issues should absolutely be a part of how we approach vegan outreach. All the facts in the world aren't going to make a disempowered person feel like they can do anything about the animals, especially if they're struggling to survive themselves. Look at the big picture.
Food for thought:
You should really check out the stuff by Ashland Creek Press Lots of great fiction (and non-fiction) with an animal/eco perspective, I highly recommend the Tourist Trail. If you are looking for non-fiction I recommend Animal Liberation or Diet For A New America both older but highly influential books. Another great one that influenced my activism was Free The Aniamls
Always the same tired old bullshit repeated again and again.
https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Bonobo-Lynn-Saxon/dp/1523945516
This?
https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Bigfoot-Files-Alabama-Archives/dp/0991585763
Thank you for clarifying your point; I didn't mean to misinterpret it. Please refrain from attacks on person.
Pit bull-type dogs, like other terriers, hunting, and bull-baiting breeds, can exhibit a bite, hold, and shake behavior and at times refuse to release; it's not exclusive to pits. Breaking an ammonia ampule and holding it up to the dog's nose can cause the dog to release its hold; a break bar is not required.
Property rights pre-exist the state. In most of human history, there are no states and yet there is property; in fact, there are many animals that have developed property rights. For example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kob#Social_behavior_and_life_history
This book summarizes the material somewhat well
http://www.amazon.ca/Territorial-Imperative-Personal-Inquiry-Property/dp/0988604310/
But on humans, there's no real way you can say property is unnatural.
p.s. Violent disregard for human life is a type of sociopathy, you might want to get that checked out.
edit: grammar
This is a really great read.