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Dragon Songs

Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations

By: Vladimir Dinets

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Dragon Songs

Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations

By: Vladimir Dinets

A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic—survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else—until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations—a form of communication extremely rare in nature—and a “dance” unknown in the scientific literature but that resembled a scene from Jurassic Park. To prove his thesis about the language of crocodiles, he spent the next six years traveling around the world on shoestring budgets and in extreme circumstances, studying almost every living species. At the same time, as a man desiring companionship in life, he sought love. With adventures on five continents, Dragon Songs is his account of this quest. It includes an escape from a boiling lava lake in the Afar Desert, being chased up a tree by a tiger in India, hitching a ride with a cocaine smuggler in Bolivia, and diving with giant Greenland sharks—all in the name of studying crocodiles, among which he routinely paddled in his inflatable kayak. Of course, not everything went according to plan. But, in the end, his ground-breaking research helped change the field. And during the course of his adventures, he met and courted his future wife.

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Skyhorse

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1628722983

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Wildlife Spectacles

Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors

By: Vladimir Dinets

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Wildlife Spectacles

Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors

By: Vladimir Dinets

Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book! People are captivated by wild animals—by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into this wonder, allowing curious readers to discover just how spectacular wild animals can be. In the rich, fully illustrated pages you’ll discover the migration of gray whales along the Pacific coast, the dancing alligators of the Everglades, the synchronized blinking of fireflies near Tennessee, the swarms of feeding bats over the Mississippi River, the blue-glowing scorpions of the Southwest desert, hundreds of wintering tundra swans in New Jersey, and much more.

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Timber Press

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160469775X

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9781604697759

The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

By: J. Sean Doody,Vladimir Dinets,Gordon M. Burghardt

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The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

By: J. Sean Doody,Vladimir Dinets,Gordon M. Burghardt

Revealing the secrets of reptilian social relationships through original quantitative research, field studies, laboratory experiments, and careful analysis of the literature, The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles elevates these fascinating animals to key players in the science of behavioral ecology.

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JHU Press

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1421440679

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9781421440675

Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America

By: Vladimir Dinets

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Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America

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A guide to finding and observing 420 species of North American mammals, including the art of mammal watching, the best locations, and a species-finding guide.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544373278

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9780544373273

Wildlife Spectacles

Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors

By: Vladimir Dinets

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Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors

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Dragon Songs

Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations

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Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America

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A guide to finding and observing 420 species of North American mammals, including the art of mammal watching, the best locations, and a species-finding guide.

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The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

By: J. Sean Doody,Vladimir Dinets,Gordon M. Burghardt

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The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

By: J. Sean Doody,Vladimir Dinets,Gordon M. Burghardt

Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles have been too often dismissed as dull animals with tiny brains and simple, "asocial" lives. In reality, reptiles engage in a remarkable diversity of complex social behavior. They can live in families; communicate with one another while still in the egg; and hunt, feed, migrate, court, mate, nest, and hatch in groups. In The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles, J. Sean Doody, Vladimir Dinets, and Gordon M. Burghardt—three of the world's leading experts on reptiles—bring together a wave of new research with a synthesis of classic studies to produce the only authoritative look at the social behaviors of the most provocative animals on the planet. The book covers turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and the enigmatic tuatara. Enhanced with dozens of images, it takes readers through a myriad of social interactions, tendencies, and intimacies ranging from fierce territorial battles to delicate paternal care and from promiscuous pairings to monogamous partnerships. This unique text • explains why reptiles have been neglected as subjects of social behavior studies; • provides numerous examples across all major reptilian groups that overturn the false paradigm of "solitary" reptiles; • explores the sensory, genetic, physiological, life history, and other factors underlying social behavior in reptiles; • presents the case that evolutionary "experiments" found among reptiles offer unparalleled opportunities for understanding how and why social behavior evolves in animals; and • identifies new and developing areas of research helping to reshape our view of reptiles. Revealing the secrets of reptilian social relationships through original quantitative research, field studies, laboratory experiments, and careful analysis of the literature, The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles elevates these fascinating animals to key players in the science of behavioral ecology.

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Book's by Vladimir Dinets

Dragon Songs

Dragon Songs

Wildlife Spectacles

Wildlife Spectacles

The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America

Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America

Wildlife Spectacles

Wildlife Spectacles

Dragon Songs

Dragon Songs

Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America

Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America

The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

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