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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - Remove as with so many students -been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=5|genre=Children's Non->Fiction<!|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four- Honeyborne legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lev Parikian |title=Light Rains Sometimes Fall |rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary= If you’re a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to write, then you know that there are unnumbered types of books. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in a random way, some for focussed research, and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like to write. Or, indeed, are actually trying to write.|isbn=1783966386}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car ->[[imageand fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter:Honeyborne BlueIIthis was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.jpg}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0711266204|lefttitle=The Secret Life of Birds|linkauthor=httpsMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure://wwwI sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing.amazon I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable.co It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.uk/gp/product/1849909679 So – what is it?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&taggareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=thebookbag1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-21&linkCodeShaped World|author=as2&campHenry Mance|rating=1634&creative5|genre=6738&creativeASINPolitics and Society|summary=1849909679]]''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1782407480|title=Knowledge EncyclopediaBird Love: Animal!The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of book, but iton-line booksellers: ''s not always exploring the most interestingsex life of birds'' it said. A series of dry facts plastered all I very nearly passed over the page with nary an image in sightbook, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, which is rather different. This dry type of learning is never going If the book was confined to work with some the sex life of our modern youthbirds, more used you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to spending time looking for imaginary animals on -day, bring up their phones, than researching real ones families and cope in a bookthe wild. If you want to capture their attentionNot only that, you must first draw their eyes. DK have attempted missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this in one of book from the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely first page to seethe last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Derek Niemann1846045576|title= A Tale of Trees: Walks In The Battle to save Britain's Ancient WoodlandWild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=Ancient British woodland ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is something very special indeed. It captures our imaginationhow Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, connects us to nature and fuels our creativity. The British have an almost symbiotic relationship with woodland and most of us have a small local patch where we can get away from the hustle and bustle of the modern world. Itthat's hard to imagine life without our native woods, and yet in basically what it is – although right at the 40 years following end the war we lost more ancient woodland than in the previous 400. The destruction was large-scale and merciless and by 1985, we'd already lost a third of our ancient woodland. Predictions for the future were bleak: find a way author says that it is not intended to halt the decline or there will be nothing left outside nature reserves by 2020a reference book, but an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722753</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen MossBuckingham_Dawn|title=Planet Earth IIThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''Planet Earth IIglance'' at '' is The Little Book of the official companion to Dawn Chorus'' but the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series pull of the same name. Our understanding sounds of the world around us has reached a new level, courtesy of ground-breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a diverse range of environments cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and a ''sneak peek'' into previously hidden worldslistening to their song. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands, Islands Then - just because I could - I went back and Cities did it all again and showcases some of it was just as good the amazing creatures that live in each onesecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=Cameron Bloom James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Bradley Trevor GreiveWildlife|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film titlewas suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Penguin BloomTaylor_Owls|title=Owls: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a FamilyA Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Biography Animals and Wildlife|summary=Cameron and his wifeI feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, Sam, had been leading a very active, adventurous lifelocking me into their gaze. Even after In contrast with the birth hardness of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventuresthe deep-amber eyes, so they decided to travel to Thailand for a family holiday. They were having a brilliant time untilsoft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, suddenlyintricate, Sam was involved in a dreadful, almost fatal, accidentdetailed and beautiful. The accident left her paralysed An enigma; harsh andgentle at the same time, because of the sudden owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into take a very deep and dark depressioncloser look inside.. Cameron feared for his family's future, and his wife's life, until one day a small abandoned magpie chick came along, and managed to change everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Piotr SochaMontgomery Tamed|title= The Book Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of Beesthe Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating= 43.5
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''New York Times''The Book best-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of Beesanimals: shortly after meeting, Sy'' may look like s pet ferret had given Liz a typical picture booknasty bite, but it has a lot buzzing underneath the surface. It is adapted from the original Polish book Liz didn''Pszczolyt seem to mind at all.'' Packed to the brim with bee facts and figures and accompanied by the wonderful comic-style artwork of Piotr Socha, the book is an odd amalgam: part coffee table book/ nature encyclopaedia/factfile/picture book. DonShe REALLY didn't be fooled mind being bitten by its simple cover; a weasel. I knew we were soul mates,''The Bee Bookrecalls Sy. '' is a treasure trove of information just waiting to Tamed and Untamed'bee' harvested!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650950</amazonuk>is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the animal world.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin BrownBarr_Elephant|title= Lesser Spotted Animals10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=There may be Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as many as 5they've always been my favourite large animal,500 different species the gentle giants of mammal on our planetAfrica and India, but how many of those do we actually get it was good to see and read find out more about? them. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers, . Female elephants, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute in calves stay together and the spotlight? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla, Onager and Linsang: Now oldest female elephant is your time the one in charge as she knows where to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter MarrenGrindrod Outskirts|title=Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British ButterfliesOutskirts|author=John Grindrod
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Peter Marren '' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a wildlife writer based in Wiltshire. His fascination with butterflies began when he was a childphenomenon of the modern age: he still remembers catching a Painted Lady in his hands at the age introduction of five and it transferring some the green belt of its colours onto his palmthe countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. Rainbow dust John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960s and '70s, as he dubbed puts it. , ''It was a Nabokov moment because only he could put into words what most of us can only feel: I grew up on the frankly sensual moment last road in a childLondon.''s life when Grindrod explores the full force introduction of nature is felt for the first timegreen belt, and the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703184</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Moss Wild
|title=Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife
|author=Stephen Moss
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, which in the modern world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising the human way of life: we can co-exist with nature.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Sewell Spot
|title=The Big Bird Spot
|author=Matt Sewell
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs whilst a very helpful volunteer guided my sightline to one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, ''The Big Bird Spot'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty-three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. Oh, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you're going to have to find them in every picture.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Burkey_Ethics
|title=Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?
|author=Tormod V Burkey
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside the realms of nature. He is no longer part of the ecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, money and all the pollution that comes with them. The natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such things. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if it continues, will make the world unrecognisable. For the world to become fuller, for it to be a world that seeks to provide for the needs of every living thing, then it needs to change.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Ljung_Butterfly
|title=Build a ... Butterfly
|author=Kiki Ljung
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it's always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as it rests on a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a 3D model of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight-year-old age group, but I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit too!
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Jones_Foxes
|title=Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
|author=Lucy Jones
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the natural world.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Metisola_1st
|title=My First Animals
|author=Aino-Maija Metsola
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Here the parental practice of making something up comes into play – it's a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about the world, they are a who's who of what's that.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Packham_Babies
|title=Amazing Animal Babies
|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft
|rating=3.5
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=PrasadamHall_Pairs
|title=Pairs in the Garden
|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=''Pairs in the Garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pair on the same page. But beware! You cannot just use the process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.
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