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Chasing Doctor Dolittle

Author : Con Slobodchikoff
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250012058
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Doctor Dolittle written by Con Slobodchikoff and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Slobodchikoff's ground-breaking research" (Jonathan Balcombe) shows us that animals have much to teach us about language Groundbreaking research has been done teaching animals human language, but what about the other way around? Studies have shown that lizards, squid, monkeys, and birds are talking to each other, communicating information about food, predators, squabbles, and petty jealousies. These animal languages are unique and highly adaptive. By exploring them, we come to appreciate the basis of our own languages; understanding or even "speaking" them allows us to get closer to the other species who inhabit this planet with us. The implications of animals having language are enormous. It has been one of the last bastions separating "us" from "them." Slobodchikoff's studies of the communication system of prairie dogs over twenty-five years have attracted a considerable amount of attention from the media, including a one-hour documentary on his work produced by BBC and Animal Planet. In Chasing Doctor Dolittle, he posits that the difference is one of degree, not the vast intellectual chasm that philosophers have talked about for millennia. Filled with meticulous research, vivid examples and daring conclusions, this book will challenge the reader's assumptions and open up new possibilities of understanding our fellow creatures.

Chasing Doctor Dolittle

Author : C. N. Slobodchikoff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031261179X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Doctor Dolittle written by C. N. Slobodchikoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how animals are capable of interacting intelligently through vocal and physical methods, drawing on work with prairie dogs to present evidence of animal communication methods and how they can be imitated by human researchers.

Doctor Dolittle's Circus

Author : Hugh Lofting
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Dolittle's Circus written by Hugh Lofting and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins with Doctor John Dolittle who is looking for some money to earn to pay off a voyage to Africa. The Doctor's idea is to get the Pushmi-Pullyu into the circus but he couldn't find one until Mathew Mugg suggest a small business circus owned by the ring master Blossum. The Doctor visits Blossum and persuades him to visit his house in Puddleby to discuss the payment and rules of the Pushmi-Pullyu before its performance in the circus. The Performance goes well after the Pushmi-Pullyu is put into the show and the doctor starts earning but he also discovers the animals who are in need of their cages cleaned which Blossum doesn't co-operate with when the doctor suggests some new ways to look after the animals. The doctor then meets Sophie the Alaskan seal, who is owned by Mr Higgins and she explains to him while crying that she misses her husband Slushy who is the alpha seal so the Doctor plans an escape for Sophie. When the night comes for the escape Doctor Dolittle waits in the street while Mathew and Jip get Sophie out of the circus but the guards shut the gate before the seal came make a break for it so Mathew and his wife Theodosia distract them by luring them to Sophie's tank and pushing them in. The whole circus goes into pandemonium when they see the disappearance of Mr Higgins's seal but Sophie manages to escape eventually while the Doctor becomes worried for waiting too long. When The Doctor and Sophie reach the outskirts of the town Sophie has an idea that if they follow the river they will get to the sea quicker so they consult the ducks who tell them to go to Talbot's Bridge which will lead them to Kippet River all the way to the Bristol Coast.

Hull Zero Three

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316123021
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Hull Zero Three written by Greg Bear and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination - unknown. Its purpose - a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home - a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms - he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger. All he has are questions -- Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to Hull 03? All will be answered, if he can survive the ship.

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Author : Hugh Lofting
Publisher : Frederick A. Stokes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle written by Hugh Lofting and published by Frederick A. Stokes. This book was released on 1922 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all.

How Stella Learned to Talk

Author : Christina Hunger
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063046865
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book How Stella Learned to Talk written by Christina Hunger and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who has taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple paw-sized buttons associated with different words. When speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with her puppy, Stella, it didn’t take long for her to start drawing connections between her job and her new pet. During the day, she worked with toddlers with significant delays in language development and used Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices to help them communicate. At night, she wondered: If dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn’t they be able to say words to us? Can dogs use AAC to communicate with humans? Christina decided to put her theory to the test with Stella and started using a paw-sized button programmed with her voice to say the word “outside” when clicked, whenever she took Stella out of the house. A few years later, Stella now has a bank of more than thirty word buttons, and uses them daily either individually or together to create near-complete sentences. How Stella Learned to Talk is part memoir and part how-to guide. It chronicles the journey Christina and Stella have taken together, from the day they met, to the day Stella “spoke” her first word, and the other breakthroughs they’ve had since. It also reveals the techniques Christina used to teach Stella, broken down into simple stages and actionable steps any dog owner can use to start communicating with their pets. Filled with conversations that Stella and Christina have had, as well as the attention to developmental detail that only a speech-language pathologist could know, How Stella Learned to Talk will be the indispensable dog book for the new decade.

The Language of Animals

Author : Stephen Hart
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466881690
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Animals written by Stephen Hart and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kanzi the chimp, Koko the ape, singing whales, trumpeting elephants, and dolphins trained for naval service--all of them make the news each year. Members of these species learn to communicate both with their voices and with body language, and without the signals they develop, each would be an island, unable to survive on Earth. How much do we know about how animals communicate with each other or with humans? Scientific American Focus: The Language of Animals examines the sometimes subtle differences between the nature of communication and what we call "language" or "intelligence." We explore how scientists study animal communication, and we learn about various species and their ways of "talking" and passing on their own "cultural" patterns. From dancing bees and chirping crickets to schooling fish and flocking birds; from birdsong to whale song to the language of our closest relatives in the animal kingdom--the chimpanzees--these overviews of thoroughly detailed case studies are a window to understanding the constant chatter and movement of the animal kingdom.

Rebel Mother

Author : Peter Andreas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501124455
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Rebel Mother written by Peter Andreas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle will find much to admire” (Booklist, starred review) in this “thoroughly engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir about a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to Latin America in search of the revolution. Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went, even kidnapping him and running off to South America after his straitlaced father won a long and bitter custody fight. They were chasing the revolution together, though the more they chased it the more distant it became. They battled the bad “isms” (sexism, imperialism, capitalism, fascism, consumerism), and fought for the good “isms” (feminism, socialism, communism, egalitarianism). Between the ages of five and eleven, Peter lived in more than a dozen homes, moving from the comfortably bland suburbs of Detroit to a hippie commune in Berkeley to a socialist collective farm in pre-military coup Chile to highland villages and coastal shantytowns in Peru. When they secretly returned to America they settled down clandestinely in Denver, where his mother changed her name to hide from his father. A “luminous memoir” (Publishers Marketplace, starred review) and “an illuminating portrait of a childhood of excitement, adventure, and love” (Kirkus Reviews) this is an extraordinary account of a deep mother-son bond and the joy and toll of growing up in a radical age. Peter Andreas is an insightful and candid narrator of “a profound and enlightening book that will open readers up to different ideas about love, acceptance, and the bond between mother and son” (Library Journal, starred review).

Not So Different

Author : Nathan H. Lents
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231178327
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Not So Different written by Nathan H. Lents and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With evidence from psychology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and ethnolgy, the biologist Nathan H. Lents argues that the same evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have shaped both humans and animals.

Story of Doctor Dolittle: #1 Animal Talk

Author : Hugh Lofting
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781599613383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Story of Doctor Dolittle: #1 Animal Talk written by Hugh Lofting and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by agreement with Sterling Publishing Co."--T.p. verso.

The Little Engine That Could

Author : Watty Piper
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593096533
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Little Engine That Could written by Watty Piper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special anniversary edition of The Little Engine That Could™ contains the entire text and original artwork. Young readers, as well as parents and grandparents, will treasure the story of the blue locomotive who exemplifies the power of positive thinking.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Author : Hugh Lofting
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513274570
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Doctor Dolittle written by Hugh Lofting and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) is a children’s fantasy novel by Hugh Lofting. The novel is the first in a series of fifteen books featuring Doctor Dolittle, a character created by Lofting in letters written to his wife and children at home while he served in the Great War. Beloved by generations of adults and children for their imaginative and moral worldview, Lofting’s books have inspired numerous adaptations for theater, film, and television. Doctor John Dolittle is an ordinary physician with an extraordinary gift. Struggling to maintain his clinic, which he runs at the house of his older sister, Dolittle turns his attention to caring for his vast collection of animals from around the world. When his parrot Polynesia teaches him how to speak with animals, however, his dwindling fortunes are reversed, and Dolittle establishes a successful veterinary clinic. As word of his skill reaches others, he is recruited for a voyage to Africa, where help is needed in order to cure an epidemic ravaging the monkey population. When a shipwreck leaves him stranded in a hostile kingdom, however, Doctor Dolittle needs the help of the very monkeys he has come to save in order to escape the clutches of Jolliginki’s king. Featuring pirates, crocodiles, and a magical creature known as a pushmi-pullyu, The Story of Doctor Dolittle is a delightful work of fantasy for children and adults alike. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Hugh Lofting’s The Story of Doctor Dolittle is a classic of English children’s fiction reimagined for modern readers.

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

Author : Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393338711
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science written by Carol Kaesuk Yoon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of taxonomy, describing the quest of scientists to name and classify living things from Carl Linnaeus to early twenty-first-century scientists who rely more on microscopic evidence than their senses, which has encouraged an indifference to nature that is responsible for the extinction of many species.

Half Brother

Author : Kenneth Oppel
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545328780
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Half Brother written by Kenneth Oppel and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Printz-Honor-winning author of Airborn comes an absorbing YA novel about a teen boy whose scientist parents take in a chimpanzee to be part of the family.For thirteen years, Ben Tomlin was an only child. But all that changes when his mother brings home Zan -- an eight-day-old chimpanzee. Ben's father, a renowned behavioral scientist, has uprooted the family to pursue his latest research project: a high-profile experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills. Ben's parents tell him to treat Zan like a little brother. Ben reluctantly agrees. At least now he's not the only one his father's going to scrutinize.It isn't long before Ben is Zan's favorite, and Ben starts to see Zan as more

Doctor Dolittle The Complete Collection, Vol. 4

Author : Hugh Lofting
Publisher : Aladdin
ISBN 13 : 1534449000
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Dolittle The Complete Collection, Vol. 4 written by Hugh Lofting and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.—soaring into theaters on January 17, 2020! Journey into the world of Doctor Dolittle, the kind and eccentric naturalist who can speak with animals. Working with original author Hugh Lofting’s son, these books have been fully updated for the modern reader, all while retaining the full charm of the originals. Rediscover the children’s literature classic with four novels from the beloved series! This concluding volume delves into prehistorical puzzles that begin with the Doctor’s arrival on the lunar surface in Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. There he not only meets the Moon Man and intelligent plants, but learns how the moon came to be in the first place. In Doctor Dolittle’s Return, he sets out to reveal all he learned on the moon, but is no sooner off to Africa to rescue his old friend, Mudface the turtle, the last living passenger of Noah’s Ark. In Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake, we at last hear his fascinating tale of The Great Flood. This complete collection of the tales of Doctor Dolittle concludes with the delectable dessert that is Gub Gub’s Book, in which the famous pig writes a book of his own: an encyclopedia of food!

Peanut Butter Lover Boy

Author : Bruce Coville
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613221627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Peanut Butter Lover Boy written by Bruce Coville and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleskit finds that peanut butter makes him chase girls and try to kiss them and soon the purple alien has to deal with screaming tabloid headlines, a rumor mill that just won't quit, and a sexual harassment charge that could create an interplanetary incident.

The Creative Lives of Animals

Author : Carol Gigliotti
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479815462
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Creative Lives of Animals written by Carol Gigliotti and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Animals & Nature The surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitats Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether animals are building a shelter, seducing a mate, or inventing a new game, animals’ creative choices affect their social, cultural, and environmental worlds. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing on a growing body of scientific research, Carol Gigliotti unpacks examples of creativity demonstrated by animals through the lens of the creative process, an important component of creative behavior, and offers new thinking on animal intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness. With examples of the elaborate dams built by beavers or the lavishly decorated bowers of bowerbirds, Gigliotti provides a new perspective on animals as agents in their own lives, as valuable contributors to their world and ours, and as guides in understanding how creativity may contribute to conserving the natural world. Presenting a powerful argument for the importance of recognizing animals as individuals and as creators of a healthy, biodiverse world, this book offers insights into both the established and emerging questions about the creativity of animals.