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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

10 best books like Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Ben Goldfarb): Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak, The Spotted Sphinx, Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve, The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World, Planting the Wild Garden, Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World, Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals, The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator

Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak
AuthorLynda V. Mapes
ISBN1632862530
When our "witness tree" first rooted beside a low stone wall in rural Massachusetts, cars were just appearing on the roads. In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years of rapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping its leaves later...
The Spotted Sphinx
AuthorJoy Adamson
ISBN0151847959
Joy Adamson, world-famous for her books about Elsa the lioness, has a new and enthralling story to tell. Its heroine is Pippa, an elegant, affectionate but enigmatic cheetah - the spotted sphinx.
"Mrs. Adamson is confirmed as one of the most remarkable women of her times... I believe The Spotted...
Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve
AuthorAlan Rabinowitz
ISBN1559638028
In 1983, zoologist Alan Rabinowitz ventured into the rain forest of Belize, determined to study the little-known jaguar in its natural habitat and to establish the world's first jaguar preserve. Within two years, he had succeeded. In Jaguar he provides the only first-hand account of a scientist's...
The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
AuthorDavid R. Boyd
ISBN1770412395
An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life

Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of...
Planting the Wild Garden
AuthorKathryn O. Galbraith
ISBN1561455636
Eloquent text and stunning illustrations combine to explore the many ways seeds are distributed.
A farmer and her son carefully plant seeds in their garden. In the wild garden, many seeds are planted too, but not by farmers' hands. Different kinds of animals transport seeds, often without knowing...
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World
AuthorChris Lavers
ISBN0312303335
Why Elephants Have Big Ears is the result of one man's lifelong quest to understand why the creatures of the earth appear and act as they do. In a wry manner and personal tone, Chris Lavers explores and solves some of nature's most challenging evolutionary mysteries, such as why birds are small and plentiful,...
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
AuthorM. Kat Anderson
ISBN0520248511
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple...
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
AuthorMerlin Tuttle
ISBN0544382277
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.

From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect...
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
AuthorPhillip Hoose
ISBN0374361738
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces...
Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator
AuthorSarah C. Campbell
ISBN1590785541
The wolfsnail hunts its prey: other snails. This true tale of horror begins in the leaf litter beside a quaint porch in Jackson, Mississippi. The wolfsnail is on the prowl. Big, strong, and fast (for a snail), the wolfsnail has a taste for meat. In some areas, it is called the cannibal snail. It has earned...
The Story of Seeds: From Mendel's Garden to Your Plate, and How There's More of Less to Eat Around the World
AuthorNancy Castaldo
ISBN0544320239
Something as small as a seed can have a worldwide impact. Did you know there are top-secret seed vaults hidden throughout the world? And once a seed disappears, that’s it—it’s gone forever? With the growth of genetically modified foods, the use of many seeds is dwindling—of 80,000 edible plants,...
The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0547815484
If you’ve never seen a lowland tapir, you’re not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil’s vast Pantanal (“the Everglades on steroids”) haven’t seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery...
Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways That Animals Move
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0544630904
A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In...
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
AuthorAdam Nicolson
ISBN1250134188
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."

A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall,...
Trapped!: A Whale's Rescue
AuthorRobert Burleigh
ISBN1580895581
When a humpback whale becomes entangled in some abandoned fishing nets, her life is endangered as she slowly grows too tired to rise to the surface of the ocean to get air. A human rescue team arrives on the scene, but they must proceed cautiously as they try to free her from this terrible trap. One roll of...
I (Don't) Like Snakes
AuthorNicola Davies
ISBN0763678317
They’re slithery and scaly, and they have icky, flicking tongues and creepy, unblinking eyes. What’s to like about a snake? You’d be surprised!

This little girl has a problem. Her family doesn’t have dogs, or cats, or birds—they have snakes! And she really, really, really really...
This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon
AuthorNancy Plain
ISBN0803248849
Birds were “the objects of my greatest delight,” wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world’s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image—lifelike and...
Plants Can't Sit Still
AuthorRebecca E. Hirsch
ISBN1467780316
Plants Can’t Sit Still is a children's non fiction picturebook written by Rebecca E. Hirsch and illustrated by Mia Posada. Have you ever seen a plant move on its own? Plants might not walk, but they definitely don't sit still! Discover the many ways plants (and their seeds) move in this fascinating...
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
AuthorJan Thornhill
ISBN1554988659
For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive.

In this stunningly illustrated...
Natural World: A Visual Compendium of Wonders from Nature
AuthorA.J. Wood
ISBN1847807828
* I was sent this for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review *

When I got this book I was immediately excited becuase upon first look it was filled with information and wonderful full page images. I was not disappointed, this is truly a solid collection of facts, and even some I'd...
Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
AuthorSarah Murray
ISBN0312355351
Today the average meal has traveled thousands of miles before reaching the dinner table. How on earth did this happen? In fact, long-distance food is nothing new and, since the earliest times, the things we eat and drink have crossed countries and continents. Through delightful anecdotes and astonishing...
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild
AuthorLyanda Lynn Haupt
ISBN0316178527
From the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door.

In THE URBAN BESTIARY, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes, raccoons, chickens, hawks, and humans...
A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
AuthorRuth Kassinger
ISBN0062048996
In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.

In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from brown...
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
AuthorMichael Punke
ISBN0060897821
THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF THE AMERICAN BUFFALO—BY MICHAEL PUNKE, THE AUTHOR OF THE REVENANT, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO

In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the...
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