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自分の婚活よりバッタの婚活!?　日本、モーリタニア、モロッコ、アメリカ、フランス――世界中を飛び回り、13年にわたり重ねてきたフィールドワークと実験は…

おしゃべりするアリを研究する「アリ先生」による面白すぎるアリの生態・葉っぱを切って集め、キノコを育てるハキリアリは超おしゃべり！？・アリは極寒、酷暑の砂漠でも活動でき、海中に住むアリも！？

アリに乗る！ 餌をねだる!! アリを食べる!!!アリの巣の居候、キミらは一体何者だ？アリの行列をじっと眺めていると、アリ以外の生き物が何食わぬ顔で混じっていることがある。

つい最近まで、動物には複雑な思考はないとされ、研究もほとんどされてこなかった。ところが近年、動物の認知やコミュニケーションに関する研究が進むと、驚くべきことが分かってきた。例えば、小鳥のシジュウカラは仲間にウソをついてエサを得るそうだ。

笑える！？　泣ける！？　マネできる！？３３種の動物たちの、ユニークな求愛方法がわかる図鑑。……おまけに、人に置きかえるとどうなるかイラスト化！

その鳥は、たしかにヒトと会話していた 言語観、動物観をぬり替えた感動の名著。人と動物は、音声を用いて会話できるのか？

生き物たちは、驚くほど人間に似ている。ネズミは冷たい雨に濡れた仲間を助けるためにわざわざ出かけるし、アリは女王のためには自爆だっていとわない。カケスは雛を育てるために集団で保育園を運営しているし、ゾウは亡くなった家族のために葬儀を行う。

Former Bake Off host, passionate animal lover and comedian Sue Perkins, is our indispensable guide to the animal kingdom. Join her on a comical, insightful and, at times, shocking nature trail around the world.

We call ourselves a nation of animal lovers--- yet millions of dogs, cats, and other animals are abandoned, surrendered, or killed every year. In Disposable Lives: The Animal Crisis Paradox, psychotherapist and animal advocate Marci Elliott confronts the painful contradiction at the heart of America's pet overpopulation crisis. Drawing on decades of experience in animal welfare and mental health, she examines irresponsible pet ownership, unchecked breeding, shelter overcrowding, and the cultural attitudes that have allowed this cycle to continue for far too long.

Einmal im Leben einen Wal sehen – für die 23-jährige Malina beginnt mit diesem Traum ein Abenteuer, das ihr Leben verändern wird. Sie zieht für ein halbes Jahr auf eine winzige Atlantikinsel, um dort als Wal-Tour-Guide zu arbeiten – ganz allein, ohne jemals dort gewesen zu sein und ohne Plan. Zwischen Selbstzweifel, Heimweh und Seekrankheit wächst Malina über sich hinaus, lernt, die eigenen Ängste zu überwinden und ihrer Begeisterung zu folgen.

** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 ** Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love and...

At the southernmost tip of South Africa, where fresh and salt water collide, a tiny seahorse appears to levitate. Seahorses are the ocean’s slowest swimmers, but they have one of the world’s fastest muscle contractions, using it to suction up their prey. In this episode, we meander through eelgrass with a male Knysna seahorse as he twines tails with his partner, changes color to match the sand, and even gives birth to a brood of tiny seahorses.

North Ronaldsay sheep have been roaming the shores of a Scottish isle for centuries. They outnumber people there by more than twenty to one. While most sheep graze in fields, the North Ronaldsay are a breed apart: they forage seaweed on the rocky beach. In this episode, we follow a lamb as she crosses the island’s ancient stone dyke and sees the ocean for the first time.

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the book’s first publication, David Attenborough has revisited Life on Earth, completely updating and adding to the original text, taking account of modern scientific discoveries from around the globe....

What if the animals we rescue are also rescuing us? In Whispers from the Wild, Susan B. Eirich, Ph.D. - founder of the Earthfire Institute - invites listeners into a sanctuary where wolves, bears and other native wildlife live out their lives in safety along the Yellowstone to Yukon Wildlife Corridor. For more than two decades, Susan has lived alongside these animals, witnessing not only their survival, but their relationships - with one another and with the humans who care for them. In these extraordinary true stories, she shares moments of play, trust, grief and transformation.

Trevor Corson takes us behind the scenes at America's first sushi-chef training academy, as eager novices strive to master the elusive art of cooking without cooking. He delves into the biology and natural history of the edible creatures of the sea, and tells the fascinating story of an Indo-Chinese meal reinvented in 19th-century Tokyo as a cheap fast food.

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher...

'Jackie Higgins’s lyrical, literate style will charm you while her book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths' Richard Dawkins Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to...