Titres dans Nature et écologie

Les éléphants bénéficient d'une impressionnante mémoire spatiale, olfactive, visuelle et vocale, on le sait, mais sait-on que certains oiseaux peuvent cacher leur nourriture dans plus de mille emplacements différents ? Dans ce livre audio riche d'une quinzaine d'années d'expérience de terrain, Emmanuelle Pouydebat montre que l'intelligence est une fonction adaptative partagée par tous les animaux.

A revolutionary approach to the techniques of working with horses, by a renowned instructor. In Horses Never Lie, renowned horse trainer Mark Rashid challenges the conventional wisdom of "alpha leadership" and teaches the listener to become a "passive leader" - a counterpart to the kind of horse other members of a herd choose to associate with and to follow. Applying Rashid’s principles and techniques helps cultivate horse personalities that are responsive and dependable regardless of the rider.

'Everyone is on a journey in their lives . . . And I believe that humankind too is on a journey in the flow of a larger time.' In this enduring classic, Michio Hoshino shares his reflections on the natural world, and our place within it. Beautifully written, this book is a collection of...

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today’s most common diseases, we have to turn to...

Conservationist Rachel Carson spent over six years documenting the effects on DDT, a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide, on numerous communities. Her analysis revealed that such powerful, persistent chemical pesticides have been used without a full understanding of the extent of their potential harm to the whole biota, including the damage they've caused to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural animals, domestic pets, and even humans. An instant best seller that was read by President Kennedy during the summer of 1962, this classic remains one of the best introductions to the complicated and controversial subject.

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.

Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world. If only for a short while.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of...

Le présent programme a pour but de faire découvrir l’abeille, son monde ainsi que la science qui les étudie : l’apiculture.Le format présenté est libre et léger (pour) afin de pouvoir apprendre avec passion.L'objectif étant d’intéresser tous les âges.Pour qui ?La présente formation s'adresse aux personnes souhaitant découvrir, à leur rythme, le monde des abeilles et l'apiculture.Aucune connaissance particulière n'est nécessaire sinon l'utilisation d'un ordinateur (ou d’un téléphone) afin de suivre les formations en ligne.Pour quel public ?Pour les débutants ...

At the age of 30, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David...

In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces listeners to the queerness of all the life around us. Fungal species, we learn, commonly encompass more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship.

"Nous assistons probablement, et je le souhaite de tout cœur, au passage à un stade éthique supérieur où la pensée humaniste s'émancipe de son cadre anthropocentrique pour s'étendre à tous les êtres sensibles qui peuplent la Terre. Dès lors, faire preuve d'"Humanité" ne signifie plus simplement respecter les autres êtres humains, mais tout être vivant, selon son degré de sensibilité et de conscience. La vie s'est exprimée sur Terre à travers une foisonnante diversité."

Du paléolithique à nos jours, Sapiens s'est trouvé confronté à des événements naturels souvent rapides, brutaux et de grande ampleur. Pour le pire et pour le meilleur. Car si notre espèce a failli en perdre la vie, si des civilisations se sont effondrées, si récemment encore se sont ensuivies famines, guerres et épidémies, nous avons fait preuve en ces occasions d'une belle faculté de résilience.

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering...

After her plane crashes, a 17-year-old girl spends 11 days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?

Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and other provocative, fascinating quandaries of the future that we want to see today.

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Jan Zalasiewicz gives a brief introduction to the fascinating field of geology. Describing how the science developed from its early beginnings, he looks at some of the key discoveries that have transformed it before delving into its various subfields, such as sedimentology, tectonics, and stratigraphy.

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to its owner based on what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually put people back in touch with their own emotions.

Caroline Lepage est passionnée par le monde animal. Auteur de nombreux livres sur le sujet, elle a décidé de s'intéresser aux pratiques sexuelles de plus de 100 espèces animales ! Hérisson, lézard, baleine, panda, limace, kangourou... son livre passe la faune au crible du sexe ! Quels sont les animaux les plus actifs ou à l'inverse les rois de l'abstinence ? Le bonobo est-il vraiment à la hauteur de sa réputation ? Et la girafe est-elle gênée par sa grande taille ? La hyène sait-elle séduire ? Du poulpe et du flamant-rose, quel est le plus fidèle ?