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Animals is a book category covering works about nonhuman creatures and their behavior.
17 summaries
Georges Cuvier's Lectures on Comparative Anatomy is a systematic survey of animal organization published in London in 1802.
This 1834 volume, compiled chiefly from Cuvier and a crowd of other naturalists, is a popular system of…
Buffon's 1778 volume on whales and dolphins, aided by Lacépède, explores their classification as air-breathing mammals.
The work is not a simple translation but a layered text, interleaving Buffon's observations with notes from later…
Buffon's governing conviction is that colour and plumage are the least reliable things about a bird.
Research Is a Passion with Me is a work associated with Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian zoologist regarded as…
The Foundations of Ethology is a systematic textbook-style exposition of the science of animal behavior by the Austrian…
The Natural Science of the Human Species is a scientific and philosophical work by the Austrian zoologist Konrad…
The book is a compact, closely reasoned treatise addressed primarily to fellow scientists rather than to the general…
The work is a compilation of Lorenz's earlier research papers, gathered in two volumes with his retrospective commentary.
On Aggression is a work of popular natural science by the Austrian zoologist and ethologist Konrad Lorenz, first…
Man Meets Dog is a wide-ranging study of the origins, behavior, and psychology of domestic animals, written by…
King Solomon's Ring is a popular work on animal behaviour by the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz, first published…
Fantastiska fabler is a Swedish-language collection of fables attributed to the author Ambrose.
The 1980 publication takes its name from one of Hooke's most memorable microscopic observations—his description of the insect…
