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Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead. In poems that are lyrical, exact, and deeply melancholic, Joanna Lilley demands audience for the final moments of animal extinction. From the zebra-horse quagga and chiding dodo, to the giant woolly mammoth and delicate Xerces blue butterfly, the haunting, urgent words of these "endlings" cut to the bone to expose the brutality of Nature and the devastating repercussions of human ignorance and intent, while giving hope that our humanity will help save what remains.

Includes papers on the following: taxonomy, habitat and species interactions, life history and bioenergetics, management and utilization, parasites, aquaculture, eutrophication and other habitat changes, and the interaction between charr and humans.

The Polar Bear: Lord of the Great North, the newest effort from award-winning photographer and author Mike Grandmaison, takes its readers on a thrilling expedition in the low Arctic to locate and admire the great white bear in all its majesty. With only his equipment and his perspicacious eye, Mike set out to a unique part the great Canadian wilderness--Manitoba's Churchill region--to track down this fearsome predator in its natural habitat, in order to capture the magnificent photographs featured in this book.

Manitoba’s ninety-three species of fish give the province the third most diverse fish population in Canada. The province’s variety of geological features, with its major lakes, rivers, tributaries, and watersheds, is due in large part to its history as the basin for Glacial Lake Agassiz. This, combined with its access to the waters of Hudson Bay and large American river systems, has provided habitat for a wide diversity of freshwater fish.

Learn how to get started raising goats. Raising goats can be a fun and rewarding experience. Not only can goats be wonderful pets (they are quite like dogs in many aspects), they can also give back or contribute to your household (or homestead) by way of milk and dairy products. Learn How to Successfully Raise Goats. Here is a preview of what you'll learn...General Information About Raising GoatsHow To Take Care Of A Newborn GoatHow To Milk A GoatHow To Breed A GoatPygmy GoatsNubian GoatsGoat DiseasesAnd basically everything you need to know to start raising goats today.

Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues-horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs-when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day.

A pioneering canine behaviorist draws on cutting-edge research to show that a single, simple trait--the capacity to love--is what makes dogs such perfect companions for humans, and to explain how people can better reciprocate their affection.

Do you want to learn how to raise chickens? Then keep reading.... Raising chickens can be both fun and rewarding, but for beginners it may be a bit challenging! To become a successful chicken raiser, one should be ready and prepared before indulging into this chicken-raising journey. Throughout this audiobook, you will learn some basic guides in starting your own chicken backyards.

Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals ...

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension-the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic fields, and brainless jellyfish that nonetheless have complex eyes.