Zoology

The animal kingdom holds secrets far stranger and more wondrous than we ever imagined, from the hidden sensory worlds of dogs and octopuses to the surprising emotional lives of creatures great and small. Books in this genre pull back the curtain on animal behavior, evolution, and biology — often revealing as much about our own human nature as they do about the beasts we share this planet with.

Zoology Shrnutí knih

The Selfish Gene

od Richard Dawkins • 1976

Natural selection works for genes, not for you. They built you to serve them.

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The Selfish Gene

Natural selection works for genes, not for you. They built you to serve them.

od Richard Dawkins 1976 360 stran

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The Naked Ape

od Desmond Morris • 1967

A zoologist treats Homo sapiens as just another animal. The report still bites.

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The Naked Ape

A zoologist treats Homo sapiens as just another animal. The report still bites.

od Desmond Morris 1967 192 stran

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Ethology

The Human Animal

od Desmond Morris • 1994

Of 193 primate species, only one is hairless. A zoologist explains what bare skin cost us.

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The Human Animal

Of 193 primate species, only one is hairless. A zoologist explains what bare skin cost us.

od Desmond Morris 1994 224 stran

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

od Marc Bekoff • 2007

Elephants mourn, dolphins laugh. Animal emotions are real, and the science demands a moral answer.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

Elephants mourn, dolphins laugh. Animal emotions are real, and the science demands a moral answer.

od Marc Bekoff 2007 256 stran

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Inside of a Dog

od Alexandra Horowitz • 2009

Your dog inhabits a world of smell you cannot enter. Science can finally take you inside.

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Inside of a Dog

Your dog inhabits a world of smell you cannot enter. Science can finally take you inside.

od Alexandra Horowitz 2009 353 stran

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The Human Zoo

od Desmond Morris • 1969

Urban anxiety, status obsession, and self-destruction: a zoologist traces them back to captivity.

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The Human Zoo

Urban anxiety, status obsession, and self-destruction: a zoologist traces them back to captivity.

od Desmond Morris 1969 320 stran

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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

od Olivia Judson • 2002

An animal advice column: promiscuous bees, murderous ducks, and the rotifers who ditched sex.

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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

An animal advice column: promiscuous bees, murderous ducks, and the rotifers who ditched sex.

od Olivia Judson 2002 308 stran

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The Extended Phenotype

od Richard Dawkins • 1982

Genes don't stop at skin: a beaver dam is a genetic tool, like the teeth.

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The Extended Phenotype

Genes don't stop at skin: a beaver dam is a genetic tool, like the teeth.

od Richard Dawkins 1982 336 stran

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An Immense World

od Ed Yong • 2022

Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.

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An Immense World

Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.

od Ed Yong 2022 464 stran

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Other Minds

od Peter Godfrey-Smith • 2016

Intelligence evolved twice on Earth. The other mind has eight arms and no fixed shape.

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Other Minds

Intelligence evolved twice on Earth. The other mind has eight arms and no fixed shape.

od Peter Godfrey-Smith 2016 257 stran

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Climbing Mount Improbable

od Richard Dawkins • 1996

Eyes evolved from scratch forty times. Each time the path was a staircase, not a leap.

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Climbing Mount Improbable

Eyes evolved from scratch forty times. Each time the path was a staircase, not a leap.

od Richard Dawkins 1996 308 stran

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The Soul of an Octopus

od Sy Montgomery • 2015

An octopus looked her in the eye and held her hand. Everything she knew unraveled.

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The Soul of an Octopus

An octopus looked her in the eye and held her hand. Everything she knew unraveled.

od Sy Montgomery 2015 261 stran

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Animals in Translation

od Temple Grandin • 2004

An animal scientist argues that autism unlocks how animals think, feel, and fear.

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Animals in Translation

An animal scientist argues that autism unlocks how animals think, feel, and fear.

od Temple Grandin 2004 368 stran

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The Story of the Human Body

od Daniel E. Lieberman • 2013

Our bodies evolved for a vanished world, and the mismatch now drives modern chronic disease.

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The Story of the Human Body

Our bodies evolved for a vanished world, and the mismatch now drives modern chronic disease.

od Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 stran

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8 000+ hodnocení

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Animal Wise

od Virginia Morell • 2013

Ants that teach, rats that laugh: inside the labs rewriting the science of animal minds.

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Animal Wise

Ants that teach, rats that laugh: inside the labs rewriting the science of animal minds.

od Virginia Morell 2013 304 stran

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Your Inner Fish

od Neil Shubin • 2008

Your wrist is a fish fin, your hiccup a gill. The body's 3.5-billion-year fossil record, decoded.

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Your Inner Fish

Your wrist is a fish fin, your hiccup a gill. The body's 3.5-billion-year fossil record, decoded.

od Neil Shubin 2008 229 stran

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The Sixth Extinction

od Elizabeth Kolbert • 2014

The planet's fifth mass extinction killed the dinosaurs. We are the cause of the sixth.

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The Sixth Extinction

The planet's fifth mass extinction killed the dinosaurs. We are the cause of the sixth.

od Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 336 stran

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Mama's Last Hug

od Frans de Waal • 2019

Before humans felt, animals did. A primatologist on grief, empathy, and justice in the wild.

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Mama's Last Hug

Before humans felt, animals did. A primatologist on grief, empathy, and justice in the wild.

od Frans de Waal 2019 352 stran

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Sociobiology

od Edward O. Wilson • 1975

Every society, from ant to human, is a gene-spreading machine; the logic is identical.

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Sociobiology

Every society, from ant to human, is a gene-spreading machine; the logic is identical.

od Edward O. Wilson 1975 720 stran

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Animals Make Us Human

od Temple Grandin • 2009

Wolf packs are families, not dominance fights. What that means for your dog.

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Animals Make Us Human

Wolf packs are families, not dominance fights. What that means for your dog.

od Temple Grandin 2009 352 stran

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Meet Your Dog

od Kim Brophey • 2018

Your dog's behavior puzzle has four pieces. Most advice only hands you one.

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Meet Your Dog

Your dog's behavior puzzle has four pieces. Most advice only hands you one.

od Kim Brophey 2018 256 stran

4.33

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Evolution

od Carl Zimmer • 2001

One idea explains elaborate plumage, the fossil record, and why antibiotics stop working: evolution.

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Evolution

One idea explains elaborate plumage, the fossil record, and why antibiotics stop working: evolution.

od Carl Zimmer 2001 528 stran

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At the Water's Edge

od Carl Zimmer • 1998

Getting onto land was a 390-million-year project. Going back took whales just 15 million.

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At the Water's Edge

Getting onto land was a 390-million-year project. Going back took whales just 15 million.

od Carl Zimmer 1998 290 stran

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Venomous

od Christie Wilcox • 2016

Venom is a precision biochemical weapon. Medicine is learning to retarget it against disease.

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Venomous

Venom is a precision biochemical weapon. Medicine is learning to retarget it against disease.

od Christie Wilcox 2016 260 stran

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Humanimal

od Adam Rutherford • 2016

We alone compose symphonies. Yet every supposedly unique human trait exists elsewhere in nature.

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Humanimal

We alone compose symphonies. Yet every supposedly unique human trait exists elsewhere in nature.

od Adam Rutherford 2016 256 stran

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The Voyage of the Beagle

od Charles Darwin • 1839

The five-year voyage that found patterns in nature no theory of the time could explain.

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Klasika

The Voyage of the Beagle

The five-year voyage that found patterns in nature no theory of the time could explain.

od Charles Darwin 1839 480 stran

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What the Chicken Knows

od Sy Montgomery • 2024

Chickens know faces, navigate by landmarks, and form bonds you'd never expect from a bird.

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What the Chicken Knows

Chickens know faces, navigate by landmarks, and form bonds you'd never expect from a bird.

od Sy Montgomery 2024 91 stran

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What an Owl Knows

od Jennifer Ackerman • 2023

Silent flight, asymmetrical ears, and the minds that decode them. A new portrait of the owl.

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What an Owl Knows

Silent flight, asymmetrical ears, and the minds that decode them. A new portrait of the owl.

od Jennifer Ackerman 2023 333 stran

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How Dogs Work

od Raymond Coppinger • 2015

Dog behavior decoded not as thought but as physics: the shape, the motor, the emergent pattern.

3.79

168

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How Dogs Work

Dog behavior decoded not as thought but as physics: the shape, the motor, the emergent pattern.

od Raymond Coppinger 2015 224 stran

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The Animal Kingdom

od Peter Holland • 2011

DNA reveals the animal kingdom's true family tree: insects dominate, humans are a recent arrival.

3.99

240

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The Animal Kingdom

DNA reveals the animal kingdom's true family tree: insects dominate, humans are a recent arrival.

od Peter Holland 2011 144 stran

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Mosquito

od Andrew Spielman • 2001

Smaller than a fingernail, deadlier than all wars combined: the insect that decided empires.

3.89

436

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Mosquito

Smaller than a fingernail, deadlier than all wars combined: the insect that decided empires.

od Andrew Spielman 2001 256 stran

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436 hodnocení

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On Animals

od Susan Orlean • 2021

Pigeon racing, taxidermy, lion hugging: Susan Orlean on the animal obsessions that fill our lives.

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On Animals

Pigeon racing, taxidermy, lion hugging: Susan Orlean on the animal obsessions that fill our lives.

od Susan Orlean 2021 247 stran

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Once a Wolf

od Bryan Sykes • 2019

The wolf-to-dog story is not about campfires. It's about a hunting partnership 30,000 years old.

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328

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Once a Wolf

The wolf-to-dog story is not about campfires. It's about a hunting partnership 30,000 years old.

od Bryan Sykes 2019 304 stran

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Domesticated

od Richard C. Francis • 2015

Selecting for tameness remakes body, brain, and behavior. The same force may have shaped us.

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Domesticated

Selecting for tameness remakes body, brain, and behavior. The same force may have shaped us.

od Richard C. Francis 2015 498 stran

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Vanishing Treasures

od Katherine Rundell • 2024

Swifts that never land, sharks that outlive empires. What we're losing, and the hope we owe.

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Vanishing Treasures

Swifts that never land, sharks that outlive empires. What we're losing, and the hope we owe.

od Katherine Rundell 2024 224 stran

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Animal Architects

od James L. Gould • 2007

From termite towers to bowerbird galleries, animal architecture is the fossil record of cognition.

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Animal Architects

From termite towers to bowerbird galleries, animal architecture is the fossil record of cognition.

od James L. Gould 2007 336 stran

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The Greatest Show on Earth

od Richard Dawkins • 2009

From radioactive rocks to lizards that grew new heads in 37 years: the evidence for evolution.

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The Greatest Show on Earth

From radioactive rocks to lizards that grew new heads in 37 years: the evidence for evolution.

od Richard Dawkins 2009 470 stran

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Animal Architecture

od Karl von Frisch • 1974

Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.

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Animal Architecture

Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.

od Karl von Frisch 1974 306 stran

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Zoology

The Story of Birds

od Steve Brusatte • 2026

How feathers, beaks, and song evolved from the dinosaurs that survived Earth's worst day.

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The Story of Birds

How feathers, beaks, and song evolved from the dinosaurs that survived Earth's worst day.

od Steve Brusatte 2026 448 stran

4.61

500+ hodnocení

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Birds

Evoluce

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life

od Helen Scales • 2023

Lanternfish trigger the planet's biggest migration; 79 more portraits from Earth's hidden biosphere.

4.43

325

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Ekologie

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life

Lanternfish trigger the planet's biggest migration; 79 more portraits from Earth's hidden biosphere.

od Helen Scales 2023 200 stran

4.43

325 hodnocení

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Zoobiquity

od Barbara Natterson-Horowitz • 2012

A cardiologist walked into a zoo. Animals were dying of the same diseases her patients had.

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Zoobiquity

A cardiologist walked into a zoo. Animals were dying of the same diseases her patients had.

od Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 2012

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Metazoa / Other Minds

od Peter Godfrey-Smith • 2021

500 million neurons spread across eight arms: the alien mind on Earth.

4.10

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Consciousness

Metazoa / Other Minds

500 million neurons spread across eight arms: the alien mind on Earth.

od Peter Godfrey-Smith 2021

4.10

20 hodnocení

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Consciousness

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