Product Description: This book is an extended argument for abandoning the various single concepts and the "species" rank. The author proposes that the rank of "species" be replaced by a pluralistic view. In such taxonomy, the smallest identifiable lineages would be used within various divergent phylogenies in a context dependent manner...read more

Product Description: Based on Maja Säfström's delightful book The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts, this collection of 50 collectible postcards is the perfect way for animal lovers and art lovers to share and collect Maja's charming illustrations...read more

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris --a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater under standing of her own confined place in the world. Intrigued by the snail's molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and mysterious courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, providing a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this underappreciated small animal.  Told with wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world illuminates our own human existence and provides an appreciation of what it means to be fully alive.

Mules are hybrids—progenies of male donkeys (jacks) and female horses (mares). Creating a mule is difficult, and baby mules are a bit precocious, but the end result is one of the most fascinating, yet often unappreciated, creatures in the world.In the revised and expanded second edition of The Natural Superiority of Mules, ranch owner and operator John Hauer celebrates these remarkable hybrids through essays, articles, stories, and beautiful, full-color photographs and illustrations.The pieces in this collection draw attention to many of the mule's most impressive characteristics, including its agility, strength, grace, longevity, disposition, conformation, and loyalty.Contributors to this collection range from recognized professionals in the mule community to those members who have recently purchased their first mules. These experts and aficionados include:

Product Description: A celebration of birds that reflects a year in the wild, revealing how these amazing creatures embody our changing world, by one of Britain's foremost naturalists.Gods of the Morning follows the year through the turning of the seasons at Aigas, the Highlands estate John Lister-Kaye has transformed into a world-renowned wildlife center...read more

Product Description: This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds...read more

Product Description: The Handbook of Australasian Biogeography is the most comprehensive overview of the biogeography of Australasian plants, fungi and animal taxa in a single volume. This volume is unique in its coverage of marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and subterranean taxa...read more

Product Description: Beautiful, educational, and inspiring, ENDANGEROUSLY CUTE showcases a dozen distinctive and singularly irresistible animals from around the world in danger of extinction, each photographed in its native habitat. A Sokoke Scops Owl perched on a branch in a dense forest...read more

It’s the most delightful gift for the animal lover. Based on the phenomenal New York Times bestselling book, UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS celebrates the emotional lives of animals and the surprising— and steadfast—interspecies bonds that they form. Here are a dozen sweet stories of companionship, affection, and support, documented with beautiful full-color photographs and text describing the nature of the relationship. The horse and the cat. The calf and the baby rhinoceros. The gentle springer spaniel who mothers chicks and even bottle-feeds young animals on her farm. And the abandoned piglet, goat, and lamb who became an inseparable family at an Australian animal sanctuary.

Product Description: Wee little piggies in a wee little calendar—what could be cuter than that? Starring the adorable and beloved teacup pigs of Pennywell Farm, POCKET PIGS MINI CALENDAR adds sweetness to lockers, cubicles, and other small spaces. This little piggie driving an itty-bitty motor boat...read more

Product Description: They’re round, they’re spiky, and oh, those beady eyes and tiny noses! Just try not to smile. It’s a year of insanely cute watercolor paintings of hedgehogs. A hedgehog posing next to a mushroom. A hedgehog reaching up with his adorably tiny paws...read more

Product Description: The Washington Post declared “sloths are the new kittens,” and the success of Sloths Wall Calendar—a sellout in 2016—supports that bold claim. How could these slow-moving, sleepy, and eminently cuddly animals possibly get any more adorable? Introducing the new SLOTHS MINI CALENDAR, boasting a wee 7" x 7" format that enhances the cuteness...read more

Product Description: Woodland Creatures Night & Day is a sophisticated adult coloring book that has you coloring critters such as the Indian peacock, horned owl, red fox, woodpecker, raccoon, wild horse, dragonfly, beaver, moose, and lots more. Colorists the world over will enjoy this coloring book that features a unique mixture of three color backgrounds (with colors that include black, gold, or blue)...read more

Product Description: The Cat That Came in from the Wild is the endearing and fascinating story of Trooper, a badly wounded bobcat kitten author Forrest Johnson rescues from near death in the Mojave Desert. Their amazing eighteen-year relationship was marked by wonder, humor, drama, joy, and love—plus the Mojave’s little-known and mostly undiscovered beauty and history...read more