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Becoming wild : how animal cultures raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace / by Safina, Carl,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance. You receive it from thousands of individuals, from pools of knowledge passing through generations like an eternal torch. You too may raise young, know beauty, or struggle to negotiate a peace. And your culture, too, changes and evolves. The light of knowledge needs adjusting as situations change, so a capacity for learning, especially social learning, allows behaviors to adjust, to change much faster than genes alone could adapt. Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of individuals in different present-day animal societies. By showing how others teach and learn, Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity. With reporting from deep in nature, alongside individual creatures in their free-living communities, this book offers a very privileged glimpse behind the curtain of Life on Earth, and helps inform the answer to that most urgent of questions: Who are we here with?"--
Subjects: Animal communities.; Animal societies.;
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Wild animal groups / by Romero, Libby.;
Living together -- Finding food -- Defending the group -- Coping with change -- Glossary."Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how and why wild animals live in groups"--
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Animal societies; Animal communities; Animal behavior;
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Bees and wasps : secrets of their busy colonies / by Latta, Sara L.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.The buzz on bees and wasps -- Life in a colony -- Home sweet home -- Communicating without words -- Bees, wasps, and people."Buzz! Wasps and bees buzz to and from their nests and hives all day. They are busy for a reason. A lot is going on inside their homes. Workers gather food and feed the young. The Queen lays eggs. Discover how bees and wasps build their homes, communicate, and depend on one another to survive in their colonies"--Provided by publisher.RL: 3-4, IL: 3-6.LSC
Subjects: Bees; Wasps; Animal colonies; Insect societies;
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Heart of flames : a crown of feathers novel / by Pau Preto, Nicki.;
"Veronyka, Tristan, and Sev must stop the advancing empire from destroying the Phoenix Riders"--Provided by publisher.Ages 12 up.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Magic; Sex role; Secret societies; Human-animal relationships; Phoenix (Mythical bird); Sisters;
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The highlanders / by Daly, Stuart.;
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Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Thieves; Secret societies; Animals, Mythical; Magic;
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Alpha [videorecording] / by Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson,actor.; Malthe, Natassia,actor.; Smit-McPhee, Kodi,actor.; Varela, Leonor,1972-actor.; Hughes, Albert,film director.; Kowalczyk, Marcin,1987-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Kodi Smit-Mcphee, Natassia Malthe, Leonor Varela, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Marcin Kowalczyk.An epic adventure, this film tells a fascinating, visually stunning story that shines a light on the origins of man's best friend. Abandoned after his first hunt in the prehistoric Ice Age, a young man (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is left to withstand the hostile wilderness on his own. He soon encounters and befriends a deserted wolf, and the two learn what it takes to survive as a brutal winter approaches.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Domestication; Glacial epoch; Hunting and gathering societies; Human-animal relationships; Human-wolf encounters; Prehistoric peoples; Wolves;
For private home use only.
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Eco-pirate [videorecording] : the story of Paul Watson / by Dolman, Trish.; Moore, Patrick.; Weyler, Rex,1947-; Entertainment One (Firm); Telefilm Canada.;
Edited by Brendan Woollard ; music by Micahel Brook.Paul Watson, Patrick Moore, Rex Weyler.Filmmaker Trish Dolman tells the incredible true life story of controversial marine activist Paul Watson, who patrols the icy waters of Antarctica's Southern Ocean on a mission to stop Japanese whalers and other lawless poachers. A devoted member of Greenpeace in the early days of the organization, Watson went on to fight the slaughter of baby harp seals in Canada as the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Though his aggressive tactics made Watson more than his fair share of enemies, he never backed down in his fight to protect the creatures of the ocean. In addition to hearing Watson's story in his own words, we also hear from his many supporters and detractors.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Watson, Paul, 1950-; Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.; Animal rights activists; Biographical films.; Conservationists; Documentary films.; Whales; Whaling; Wildlife conservation.; Wildlife films.;
© c2011., Entertainment One,
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Shinji Takahashi : into the heart of the storm / by Kagawa, Julie.;
Thirteen-year-old Shinji and his S.E.A. cohorts travel to a forgotten island in Polynesia in search of a lost culture.
Subjects: Fantasy ficiton.; Adventure and adventurers; Magic; Animals, Mythical; Secret societies; Japanese Americans;
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Shinji Takahashi and the mark of the Coatl / by Kagawa, Julie.;
To free himself from an ancient curse, thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi must team up with a secret organization of explorers, find a magical font hidden in the jungles of Mexico, and replace a stolen idol.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Japanese Americans; Blessing and cursing; Animals, Mythical; Secret societies; Magic;
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The Luminaries / by Dennard, Susan.;
Winnie Wednesday, an outcast from the Luminaries, is determined to restore her family's good name by taking the deadly hunter trials on her sixteenth birthday, but when she turns to her former best friend Jay Friday for help, they discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Teenage girls; Outcasts; Hunters; Secret societies; Monsters; Animals, Mythical; Contests; Families; Forests and forestry;
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