The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

10 best books like The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals (Merlin Tuttle): Corvus: A Life with Birds, The Birds of Pandemonium, The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver, Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur, Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs, Swimming with Orca: My Life with New Zealand's Killer Whales, The Wolverine Way, Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America

AuthorEsther Woolfson
ISBN1847080294
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Birds have arrived, the chosen and the unwanted, the damaged, the accidentally displaced from nests. They have stayed, or gone, leaving, all of them, their own determined avian imprint,...
AuthorMichele Raffin
ISBN1616201363
Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. “It knocks me out, every day,” she says.

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AuthorNoah Strycker
ISBN1594486352
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.

Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to...
AuthorLyanda Lynn Haupt
ISBN1570614199
Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious behavior and startling population...
AuthorFrances Backhouse
ISBN1770412077
Finalist for the 2015 Lane Anderson Award and the 2016 Butler Book Prize

Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most...
AuthorCarl Safina
ISBN0805078916
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist

Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0679400621
Hubbell channels Rachel Carson in this wonderful wandering through the bug world. She's environmentally conscious & given to almost poetic maundering about them, from the prettiest to the nastiest. Some passages would be almost pornographic out of context, but it's all good & very interesting....
AuthorIngrid Visser
The inspiring stories of Dr Ingrid Visser's encounters with orca. Called orca by some, and killer whales by others, these mysterious animals have become part of Ingrid's life. She has got to know many orca by sight and calls them her friends. Her experiences with orca challenge their fearsome reputation:...
AuthorDouglas H. Chadwick
ISBN0979065976
Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of...
AuthorWilliam Stolzenburg
ISBN1620405520
Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.

Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor...
AuthorRichard Conniff
ISBN0805055312
Natural history writer Richard Conniff's journalistic assignments have brought him in contact with invertebrates for more than 20 years--tarantulas of the upper Amazon, dragonflies in Arizona, squid in Florida, and flies on the rim of his beer glass. Here Conniff details his often hilarious encounters...
AuthorKatherine Harmon Courage
ISBN1591845270
No one understands the octopus. With eight arms, three hearts, camouflaging skin, and a disarmingly sentient look behind its highly evolved eyes, how could it appear anything but utterly alien?

Octopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we have been catching them. Many cultures...
AuthorJennifer A. Mather
ISBN1604690674
The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends—from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula...
AuthorSimon Barnes
ISBN1476730350
Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, the sexual gladiators of slugs, bdelliod rotifers who haven't had...
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...
AuthorHelen Scales
ISBN1472911369
Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. Members of the phylum Mollusca are among the most ancient animals on the planet. Their shells provide homes for other animals, and across...
AuthorJeff Corwin
ISBN1605298476

It’s no secret that our planet—and the delicate web of ecosystems that comprise it—is in crisis. Environmental threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and land degradation threaten the survival of thousands of plant and animal species each day. In 100 Heartbeats, conservationist...
AuthorJoe Hutto
ISBN1599211971
This is an unexpectedly beautiful book. I noticed that a show based on the book was to be aired on PBS the day before Thanksgiving and decided to read the book before watching. (Here is something about the PBS show: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episod... ) The book began as a sort of journal or field...
AuthorHenry Nicholls
ISBN1605981885
Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. For almost a century they defied classification; they outwitted hunters and escaped trappers, left the public elbowing and zoo turnstiles spinning, were sent on diplomatic journeys, branded...
Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
AuthorRobert Courland
ISBN1616144815
Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much of modern civilization’s constructed...
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0544986830
From one of the finest scientist/writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Heinrich finds himself at...
AuthorThor Hanson
ISBN0465052614
From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships...
Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
AuthorSy Montgomery
Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery.

A Mail on Sunday “Critic's Pick” Best Read of the Year

"In their writing and in their lives and...
AuthorLisa Margonelli
ISBN0374282072
This book is about termites the way the Bible is about men with beards. Yes, it takes you into the mounds and inside the bugs, but also deep into the strange labs and pulsing, eclectic minds of the roboticists, geneticists, physicists, and ecologists who try to figure them out. Perhaps best of all, it takes...
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