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 Ringkasan Buku

The Selfish Gene

oleh 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.

oleh Richard Dawkins 1976 360 halaman

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The Naked Ape

oleh Desmond Morris • 1967

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

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Ethology

The Naked Ape

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

oleh Desmond Morris 1967 192 halaman

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Ethology

The Human Animal

oleh 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.

oleh Desmond Morris 1994 224 halaman

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

oleh 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.

oleh Marc Bekoff 2007 256 halaman

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Biologi

Psikologi

Inside of a Dog

oleh 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.

oleh Alexandra Horowitz 2009 353 halaman

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Biologi

The Human Zoo

oleh Desmond Morris • 1969

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

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Zoology

Psikologi

Sosiologi

The Human Zoo

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

oleh Desmond Morris 1969 320 halaman

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Zoology

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Sosiologi

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

oleh Olivia Judson • 2002

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

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Humor

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

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

oleh Olivia Judson 2002 308 halaman

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Humor

The Extended Phenotype

oleh Richard Dawkins • 1982

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

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Zoology

Alam

The Extended Phenotype

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

oleh Richard Dawkins 1982 336 halaman

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Filsafat

Zoology

Alam

An Immense World

oleh Ed Yong • 2022

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

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Zoology

An Immense World

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

oleh Ed Yong 2022 464 halaman

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Biologi

Zoology

Other Minds

oleh 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.

oleh Peter Godfrey-Smith 2016 257 halaman

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Climbing Mount Improbable

oleh 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.

oleh Richard Dawkins 1996 308 halaman

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Sejarah Alam

The Soul of an Octopus

oleh Sy Montgomery • 2015

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

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Memoar

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The Soul of an Octopus

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

oleh Sy Montgomery 2015 261 halaman

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Memoar

Biologi

Animals in Translation

oleh Temple Grandin • 2004

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

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Autism

Alam

Animals in Translation

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

oleh Temple Grandin 2004 368 halaman

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Autism

Alam

The Story of the Human Body

oleh Daniel E. Lieberman • 2013

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

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Kedokteran

The Story of the Human Body

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

oleh Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 halaman

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Animal Wise

oleh 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.

oleh Virginia Morell 2013 304 halaman

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Your Inner Fish

oleh 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.

oleh Neil Shubin 2008 229 halaman

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The Sixth Extinction

oleh Elizabeth Kolbert • 2014

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

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Ekologi

The Sixth Extinction

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

oleh Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 336 halaman

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Ekologi

Mama's Last Hug

oleh 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.

oleh Frans de Waal 2019 352 halaman

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Psikologi

Biologi

Alam

Sociobiology

oleh Edward O. Wilson • 1975

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

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Zoology

Sociobiology

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

oleh Edward O. Wilson 1975 720 halaman

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Zoology

Animals Make Us Human

oleh 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.

oleh Temple Grandin 2009 352 halaman

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Alam

Meet Your Dog

oleh Kim Brophey • 2018

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

4.33

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Pengembangan Diri

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Meet Your Dog

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

oleh Kim Brophey 2018 256 halaman

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Evolution

oleh Carl Zimmer • 2001

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

4.11

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Evolution

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

oleh Carl Zimmer 2001 528 halaman

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At the Water's Edge

oleh 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.

oleh Carl Zimmer 1998 290 halaman

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Venomous

oleh Christie Wilcox • 2016

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

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Kimia

Venomous

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

oleh Christie Wilcox 2016 260 halaman

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Kimia

Humanimal

oleh 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.

oleh Adam Rutherford 2016 256 halaman

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Sejarah Alam

The Voyage of the Beagle

oleh Charles Darwin • 1839

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

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Klasik

The Voyage of the Beagle

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

oleh Charles Darwin 1839 480 halaman

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Klasik

What the Chicken Knows

oleh Sy Montgomery • 2024

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

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Birds

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Memoar

What the Chicken Knows

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

oleh Sy Montgomery 2024 91 halaman

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Birds

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What an Owl Knows

oleh Jennifer Ackerman • 2023

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

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Birds

Biologi

What an Owl Knows

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

oleh Jennifer Ackerman 2023 333 halaman

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Birds

Biologi

How Dogs Work

oleh Raymond Coppinger • 2015

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

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Zoology

How Dogs Work

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

oleh Raymond Coppinger 2015 224 halaman

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168 penilaian

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Zoology

The Animal Kingdom

oleh Peter Holland • 2011

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

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240

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Zoology

The Animal Kingdom

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

oleh Peter Holland 2011 144 halaman

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Zoology

Mosquito

oleh Andrew Spielman • 2001

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

3.89

436

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Kesehatan

Mosquito

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

oleh Andrew Spielman 2001 256 halaman

3.89

436 penilaian

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On Animals

oleh 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.

oleh Susan Orlean 2021 247 halaman

3.83

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Memoar

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Once a Wolf

oleh Bryan Sykes • 2019

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

3.48

328

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Anjing

Evolusi

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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.

oleh Bryan Sykes 2019 304 halaman

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328 penilaian

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Evolusi

Biologi

Domesticated

oleh 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.

oleh Richard C. Francis 2015 498 halaman

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Vanishing Treasures

oleh 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.

oleh Katherine Rundell 2024 224 halaman

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Animal Architects

oleh James L. Gould • 2007

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

3.90

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Animal Architects

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

oleh James L. Gould 2007 336 halaman

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The Greatest Show on Earth

oleh Richard Dawkins • 2009

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

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Zoology

The Greatest Show on Earth

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

oleh Richard Dawkins 2009 470 halaman

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Zoology

Animal Architecture

oleh Karl von Frisch • 1974

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

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Zoology

Animal Architecture

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

oleh Karl von Frisch 1974 306 halaman

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54 penilaian

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Zoology

The Story of Birds

oleh Steve Brusatte • 2026

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

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Birds

Evolusi

The Story of Birds

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

oleh Steve Brusatte 2026 448 halaman

4.61

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Birds

Evolusi

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life

oleh 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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Ekologi

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life

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

oleh Helen Scales 2023 200 halaman

4.43

325 penilaian

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Biologi

Ekologi

Zoobiquity

oleh 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.

oleh Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 2012

4.19

16 penilaian

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Kedokteran

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Metazoa / Other Minds

oleh 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.

oleh Peter Godfrey-Smith 2021

4.10

20 penilaian

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Consciousness

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