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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

10,000 Birds

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. What I mostly look for in this book is how to understand those behaviours, how to interpret them. “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman.

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The Blue House Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

It took nine years for my picture book, THE BLUE HOUSE DOG, (Peachtree Publishers/August 1, 2010) to come out. At the end, the dog catcher doesn’t come to their neighborhood anymore because there are no stray dogs there anymore. “The Blue House Dog,&# (Peachtree Publishers), in stores now.

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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans

10,000 Birds

The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. In each instance they start with a striking anecdote — my particular favorite took place on the University of Montana campus, where in 1964 an American Crow learned to call and taunt stray dogs into causing perhaps the most adorable college riots of the decade.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

This case has strongly fascinated the publicity, which led to publishing the book about this awkward family – Tiger-Pups. The most spectacular case was in Krasnoyarsk Zoo (Russia), where people could watch the life of very interesting and strange family, consisting of four puma cubs, stray dog Mary and baby-badger.

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