Nature and Wildlife

Wishing to escape the urban rat race, freelance writer and editor, Stephanie Marohn, moved to rural northern California in 1993. Life was sweet. She was a busy freelancer. In return for reduced rent, she fed and cared for two horses and a donkey. Her life was full. And then, the farm animals started to appear: ...

Have you ever celebrated the newest hatchling of a mated pair of Red-tailed Hawks, listened to the crooning of a Common Loon on a misty morning, or experienced the magic of a Snowy Owl’s four-foot wingspan as it flies above your head? If you haven’t already started to notice the kinds of birds around you, you will once you start using this deck.

In Animal Wisdom, veterinarian and animal intuitive Linda Bender offers us a wealth of extraordinary stories and research-based evidence indicating animals have deeply perceptive--even extrasensory--abilities, especially when love is involved.

Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate—Aotus, the owl monkey, or "monkey of the night." But along her journey to discover the behaviour of these unique nocturnal creatures, Wright finds more than she expected about family, human nature, and herself.

In 1986, primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright was given a seemingly impossible task: to travel to the rainforests of Madagascar and find the greater bamboo lemur, a species that hadn't been seen in the wild for thirty years. Not only did Wright discover that the primate still existed but that it lived alongside a completely new species.

For decades, pit bulls have been demonised by society and portrayed as hellhounds. They've become the most feared, hated and abused of all companion animals. Some cities and, even entire countries, ban them while the media persist in associating them with viciousness.