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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。

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。

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！

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。

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！？

ある日家の玄関を開けると、黒くて大きな影が潜んでいた。「おいっ」と声をかけると、クマは私の脇腹をかすって逃げた――。 著者はこれまで3000回以上クマに遭遇し、9回襲われ、何とか生還してきた。振り返ると目の前にクマがいたこともあれば、クマと一緒に寝たこともある。

I fuldskab afslører hestevæddeløbskorrespondenten Bert Checkov en farlig hemmelighed til sin kollega James Tyrone. Fem minutter senere lander Checkov på fortovet - faldet ud ad vinduet på syvende sal. Der kan umuligt være tale om en tilfældighed. Tyrone er overbevist om, at hans kollegas...

Prinsesse, hestepige og en af Danmarks dygtigste dressurryttere: Hesten og interessen for ridning har i den grad formet Nathalie til Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburgs liv. I den rigt illustrerede biografi "Mit liv med heste" går journalist Vivi Sjøner tæt på kvinden med hverdag i staldene og på...

Discover a new wilderness, where animals survive—and even thrive—in damaged, developed, and disturbed environments Migrating monarch butterflies lay their eggs next to busy highways in the United States. Wolves find safety in minefields along the Israel-Syria border. And a seabird population...

An Outside magazine Best Science Book of the Year One of Colorado Public Radio’s Books We Love One of Mongabay’s 10 Notable Books on Conservation and the Environment A fascinating story of the movement to protect the jaguar, and the man who devoted his life to saving the species. Once...

The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature-writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found...

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？

Against the white expanse of the Arctic tundra, a snowy owl is hardly visible as he pauses to listen for the rustling of small prey. While most Arctic birds migrate south for the winter, this owl can survive through the endless polar nights. In this episode, we follow a snowy owl as he searches for food in the dark, soaring past the footprints of polar bears, howling huskies, and snow foxes that call this wintry world home.

** 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.

In Of Orcas and Men, a marvelously compelling mix of cultural history, environmental reporting, and scientific research, David Neiwert explores an extraordinary species and its occasionally fraught relationship with human beings. Beginning with their role in myth and contemporary culture, Neiwert shows how killer whales came to capture our imaginations and brings to life the often-catastrophic environmental consequences of that appeal.

In the misty Puerto Rican El Yunque rainforest, coquí frogs no larger than your thumb fill the air with their distinctive two-note song: “co-quí, co-quí.” They alternate routines—one night singing to attract potential mates, the next hunting to fuel up for tomorrow’s performance. In this episode, we follow a singer and a hunter amid the vibrant nighttime chorus.

Sixty years ago in the snowy valleys of Japan, a young snow monkey discovered a hotel’s hot spring, and others in her troop soon joined her. Now, generations of families have built their routines around their own hot springs. In this episode, we follow a young snow monkey as her troop leaps from rock to rock toward their favorite activity in winter: a long steamy soak.

A tale of some of the most amazing creatures ever to grace this tiny planet - unearth how the science fiction of the Jurassic World franchise inspired the evolution of dinosaur science.