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1	Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes more books like this by Dr. Frans de Waal add to wishlist "Gingrich has been a avid follower of de Waal's work for years. He has even placed de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among the Apes on his recommended reading list, along with better known texts such as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. What secrets has Gingrich gleaned from our simian ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.31! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Three Among the Wolves: A Couple and Their Dog Live a Year with Wolves in the Wild more books like this by Helen Thayer add to wishlist For this a highly readable true-life adventure tale combined with a fascinating natural history of the wolf, Helen and Bill Thayer, accompanied by their part-wolf, mostly Husky dog, Charlie, set out on foot to live among wild wolf packs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals more books like this by Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce add to wishlist Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German zoo who spent days mourning the death of her baby? Or a wild female elephant who cared for a ... see all copies from $18.23! new only from $18.23! \| SVS
4	In Quest of the Sacred Baboon: A Scientist's Journey more books like this by Hans Kummer, M Ann Biederman-Thorson (Translator) add to wishlist In a tale that begins at a zoo in Zurich and takes us across the deserts of Ethiopia to the Asir Mountains in Saudi Arabia, Hans Kummer recreates the adventure and intellectual thrill of the early days of field research on primates. Just as Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey introduced readers to the fascinating lives of chimpanzees and gorillas, Kummer ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition more books like this by Edward Osborne Wilson add to wishlist When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. This book is widely known as the object of bitter attacks by social scientists and other scholars who opposed its claim that human social behaviour, indeed human nature, has a biological ... see all copies from $26.97! new only from $35.88! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Genetics and the social behavior of the dog more books like this by John Paul Scott, John Langworthy Fuller add to wishlist The classic study of dog behavior gathered into one volume. Based on twenty years of research at the Jackson Laboratory, this is the single most important and comprehensive reference work on the behavior of dogs ever complied. "Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog is one of the most important texts on canine behavior published to date. ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $24.11! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Looking for Miza: The True Story of the Mountain Gorilla Family Who Rescued on of Their Own more books like this by Craig M Hatkoff, Juliana Lee Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff add to wishlist In a magical place called the Congo, in the beautiful forests and jungles of Virunga National Park, lives a young female mountain gorilla named Miza. She was just like any other baby gorilla, riding on her mother's back, playing, taking naps. Then, one day, when Miza and her mother were out searching for food, Miza's mother disappeared, leaving ... see all copies from $4.69! new only from $10.36! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello more books like this by Marilyn Singer add to wishlist How do animals greet one another? In this intriguing full-color picture book, Singer explores, explains, and describes the extraordinary ways in which animals communicate. Young readers will also be introduced to some of the basic elements of animal behavior. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles: How Bugs Find Strength in Numbers more books like this by Dr. Gilbert Waldbauer add to wishlist Insects that are the least bit social may gather in modest groups, like the dozen or so sawfly larvae feeding on a pine needle, or they may form huge masses, like a swarm of migratory locusts in Africa or a cloud of mayflies at the edge of a midwestern lake or river. Why these insects get together and what they get out of their associations are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.47! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Primate societies more books like this by Smuts add to wishlist Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich source of ideas about other taxa. "A superb synthesis of knowledge about the social lives of non-human ... see all copies from $14.90! new only from $51.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think more books like this by Marc D Hauser add to wishlist Do animals think? Can they count? Do they have emotions? Do they feel anger, frustration, hurt or sorrow? Are they bound by any moral code? "Wild Minds" provides authoritative answers to these long-standing questions. Marc Hauser, a scientist in the field of animal cognition, uses insights from evolutionary theory and cognitive science to examine ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.65! \| first editions
12 view cover	Sex & Friendship in Baboons more books like this by Barbara B Smuts add to wishlist Those who have been privileged to watch baboons long enough to know them as individuals and who have learned to interpret some of their more subtle interactions will attest that the rapid flow of baboon behavior can at times be overwhelming. In fact, some of the most sophisticated and influential observation methods for sampling vertebrate social ... see all copies from $2.87! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Insect World of Fabre more books like this by Jean-Henri Fabre, Gerald Malcolm Durrell (Foreword by), Edwin Way Teale (Commentaries by) add to wishlist Jean Henri Fabre, nineteenth-century French entomologist and author of the massive Souvenirs Entomoligies, has inspired perhaps more modern writer/naturalists than any other chronicler of the natural world. Edwin Way Teale's selection of the most compelling of Fabre's writing makes The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre the essential edition of the ... see all copies from $3.34! new only from $21.97! \| SVS
14 view cover	Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes more books like this by F B M De Waal add to wishlist In "Chimpanzee politics", Frans de Waal expands and updates his extraordinary account of the daily life of a large zoo colony of chimpanzees in Arnhem, The Netherlands. This new edition - with a gallery of colour photographs - expands our knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour and tells what has happened to the members of the arnhem colony in the past ... see all copies from $3.13! new only from $99.80! \| first editions
15	The Spotted Hyena: A Study of Predation and Social Behavior more books like this by Hans Kruuk add to wishlist see all copies from $17.98! first editions
16 view cover	Sociobiology: Abridged Edition more books like this by Edward Osborne Wilson, Sarah Landry (Photographer) add to wishlist In this text, Wilson's work on the biological basis of social behavior in all species from amoeba colonies to human societies has been trimmed to its essential argument and most compelling examples. see all copies from $13.97! new only from $43.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Living with Wolves more books like this by Jim Dutcher (Photographer), Jamie Dutcher (Photographer) add to wishlist Determined to overcome misconceptions and provide ideas on how these animals can be successfully reintroduced into the wild, Jim & Jamie Dutcher spent 6 years in a primitive tented camp on the edges of the Idaho wilderness. see all copies from $19.50! new only from $23.11! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Social Lives of Animals: A Chapter Book more books like this by Katherine Gleason add to wishlist - High-interest/low vocabulary. - Chapters are brief, and each one is tied to a unifying theme. - Important life-science concepts introduced through exciting true stories. - Timelines and maps included where appropriate. see all copies from $7.18! new only from $13.18! \| SVS
19 view cover	Such is the real nature of horses more books like this by Robert Vavra add to wishlist A guide to horses and their nature. see all copies from $22.50! signed copies \| first editions
20	Sociobiology more books like this by Edward Osborne Wilson add to wishlist View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" see all copies from $12.99! first editions
21 view cover	Sociobiology, Sense or Nonsense? more books like this by Michael Ruse add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Biological Roots of Human Nature: Forging Links Between Evolution and Behavior more books like this by Timothy Goldsmith add to wishlist This monograph argues that biology has a great deal to say that should be of interest to social scientists, historians, philosophers and humanists in general. The author believes that anyone studying the social behaviour of humans must take into consideration both proximate cause - the physiology, biochemistry and social mechanisms of behaviour - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Caste & Ecology in the Social Insects more books like this by George F Oster, Edward Osborne Wilson add to wishlist see all copies from $4.43! new only from $38.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24	The Ecology of Social Behavior more books like this by C N Slobodchikoff (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.20! new only from $16.95!
25 view cover	Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans more books like this by Lee Alan Dugatkin add to wishlist A young biologist probes the mystery and beauty of cooperation in nature and provides a new perspective on the meaning of animal social behavior for human relationships at work and at play. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions \| SVS

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