Dieren in de natuur

The idea that animals have feelings of any kind -let alone the ability to grieve- remains highly controversial. A combination of philosophical dogma and human arrogance had prevented any serious rational debate on the subject over the course of many centuries. Science provides some remarkable insights into animal behaviour, with crocodiles, for example, emerging as devoted parents, and elephants - like whales - able to communicate with each other across long distances by ultrasound. This title contends that emotions - including grief - can potentially have a survival value for a species. Meer info

Great color photos by Daniel J. Cox and text by famed deer researcher John Ozoga. Content: -Spring -Summer -Autumn -Winter -Selected references Meer info

Have you been looking for a good photograph of a fox, a beaver, a squirrel, a reindeer? You can find these and many others in this excellent collection of high quality photographs of the major animals of the United States. Full-page photographs of sixty-five different mammals show the armadillo, badger, common brown bat, grizzly bear, polar bear, American beaver, bison, Eastern chipmunk, coyote, gray fox, jackrabbit, manatee, muskrat, ocelot, opossum, sea otter, pika, porcupine, puma, pygmy rabbit, raccoon, reindeer, monk seal, Southeastern shrew, striped skunk, gray squirrel, Pacific walrus, wapiti, long-tailed weasel, wolverine, woodchuck and many others. Meer info