The Secret Lives of Brown Bears

The Secret Lives of Brown Bears

Author: J. Lou Barnes

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2007-01-12

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836876550

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Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, behaviors, and life cycle of brown bears.


A Shape in the Dark

A Shape in the Dark

Author: Bjorn Dihle

Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1680513109

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In A Shape in the Dark, wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experience with historical and contemporary accounts to explore the world of brown bears--from encounters with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, frightening attacks including the famed death of Timothy Treadwell, the controversies related to bear hunting, the animal’s place in native cultures, and the impacts on the species from habitat degradation and climate change. Much more than a report on human-bear interactions, this compelling story intimately explores our relationship with one of the world’s most powerful predators. An authentic and thoughtful work, it blends outdoor adventure, history, and elements of memoir to present a mesmerizing portrait of Alaska’s brown bears and grizzlies, informed by the species’ larger history and their fragile future.


The Secret Life of the Little Brown Bat

The Secret Life of the Little Brown Bat

Author: Laurence Pringle

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1635924995

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Learn about a year in the life of a little brown bat named Otis. This gorgeous and lyrical picture book follows a year in the life of a little brown bat named Otis as he learns to be a hunter, escape predators, and find a mate. Stunning, realistic illustrations celebrate the beauty of these mysterious creatures as readers learn important facts through an engaging and fascinating story. The book also includes back matter with more in-depth information, a glossary, and further resources.


The Secret Lives of Tigers

The Secret Lives of Tigers

Author: J. Lou Barnes

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2007-01-12

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836876598

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Describes the physical characteristics, behaviors, habitat, and life cycle of tigers.


Among Grizzlies

Among Grizzlies

Author: Timothy Treadwell

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 1999-02-02

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0345426053

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Living with Wild Bears in Alaska "A heart-stopping eco-adventure, a testimony to both the grizzlies and their courageous protector." --People "The grizzly bear is one of a very few animals remaining on earth that can kill a human in physical combat. It can decapitate with a single swipe or grotesquely disfigure a person in rapid order. Within the last wilderness areas where they dwell, they are the undisputed king of all beasts. I know this very well. My name is Timothy Treadwell, and I live with the wild grizzly. . . ." After Timothy Treadwell nearly died from a heroin overdose, he sought healing far from the trappings of civilization--among wild grizzlies on the remote Alaskan coast. Without gun, two-way radio, or experience living in the wild, armed only with the love and respect he felt for these majestic animals, Treadwell set up camp surrounded by one of nature's most terrifying and fascinating forces of nature. Here is the story of his astonishing adventures with grizzlies: soothing aggressive adolescents, facing down thousand-pound males, swimming with mothers and cubs, surviving countless brushes with death, earning their trust and acceptance. In these incredible pages, Treadwell lives a life no human has ever attempted, and ultimately saves his own. To share his experience is awesome, harrowing, and unforgettable. "LIKE AFRICA NATURALIST JANE GOODALL, TREADWELL GIVES PERSONAL NAMES TO HIS SUBJECTS. . . . Bears have distinct personalities, Treadwell shows, and as a group, individual roles become clearly defined by gender, size, and age." --The Seattle Times With twenty-nine photographs


The Secret Lives of Teddy Bears

The Secret Lives of Teddy Bears

Author: Rosalie Upton

Publisher: Harpercollins Australia

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780207187438

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Portraits of a variety of historic teddy bears, many of them in British or Australian museums and private collections, including the most famous bear of all--Winnie the Pooh--are accompanied by accounts of their backgrounds and detailed physical descripti


The Secret Lives of Elephants

The Secret Lives of Elephants

Author: J. Lou Barnes

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2007-01-12

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836876574

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Describes the habitat, physical characteristics, behaviors, and life cycle of elephants.


The Secret Lives of Gorillas

The Secret Lives of Gorillas

Author: J. Lou Barnes

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2007-01-12

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836876581

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Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behaviors, and life cycle of gorillas.


The Secret Lives of Dolphins

The Secret Lives of Dolphins

Author: J. Lou Barnes

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2007-01-12

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836876567

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Describes the physical characteristics, behaviors, and life cycles of dolphins.


In the Eye of the Wild

In the Eye of the Wild

Author: Nastassja Martin

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1681375869

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After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin’s professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken—the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker’s classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.