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Animal Ark: Kittens in the Kitchen
by Lucy DanielsAnimal Ark is the veterinary surgery run by Mandy Hope's parents. If there are animals to be protected or looked after, Mandy is always there to help.Mr Williams, the caretaker at Mandy's school, is furious when a stray cat has a litter in his kitchen. He wants the kittens and their mum out of his house as soon as possible. Will Mandy be able to find owners for them all in just one week?KITTENS IN THE KITCHEN is one of the best-loved ANIMAL ARK stories. Have you read them all?
Animal Ark Pets CDs: 1: Puppy Puzzle and Kitten Crowd (Animal Ark: Pets)
by Lucy DanielsMandy loves animals and knows lots about them too! Both her parents are vets - so Mandy's always able to help her friends with their pet problems ...Puppy Puzzle: James is taking his new Labrador puppy, Blackie, to pet day at school. But Blackie's brother Sooty is also there and they look almost identical. Now one of them has gone missing - but which one is it?Kitten Crowd: Katie has six newborn kittens to look after but her family are moving house and can't take them with them. Can Mandy find a new home for all six kittens by the end of the week?(P) Hodder Children's Books 2008
Animal Ark Pets CDs: 2: Chick Challenge and Hamster Hotel (Animal Ark: Pets)
by Lucy DanielsMandy loves animals and knows lots about them too! Both her parents are vets - so Mandy's always able to help her friends with their pet problems ...Chick Challenge: New girl Libby is not very happy. Her pet hen, Ronda, misses her while she's out all day at school, and now Ronda's stopped eating. Mandy comes up with a plan to cheer them both up - a new family of chicks should do the trick!Hamster Hotel: Mandy's grandparents are looking after a friend's hamster while she's on holiday - and they don't have a clue what to do! Mandy promises to come and help out - but even she has a problem when the hamster disappears!(P) Hodder Children's Books 2008
Animal Ark Pets Christmas Collection: THREE BOOKS IN ONE (Animal Ark: Pets #1)
by Lucy DanielsThe Animal Ark Pets is the younger sister of Animal Ark - they are shorter novels, with more illustrations, but they still feature Mandy and James and all the regulars at Animal Ark. KITTEN KISSES - Can Mandy find a home for an abandoned kitten found in the snow?PETS' PARTY - How can Mandy and James stop a playful pup from being sent away at Christmas?SPANIEL SURPRISE - the exciting story of the search for the perfect pet ...
Animal Ark Pets Christmas Collection: THREE BOOKS IN ONE
by Lucy DanielsThe Animal Ark Pets is the younger sister of Animal Ark - they are shorter novels, with more illustrations, but they still feature Mandy and James and all the regulars at Animal Ark. KITTEN KISSES - Can Mandy find a home for an abandoned kitten found in the snow?PETS' PARTY - How can Mandy and James stop a playful pup from being sent away at Christmas?SPANIEL SURPRISE - the exciting story of the search for the perfect pet ...
Animal Ark: Puppies in the Pantry
by Lucy DanielsAnimal Ark is the veterinary surgery run by Mandy Hope's parents. If there are animals to be protected or looked after, Mandy is always there to help.When a film crew arrives in town, Mandy and her best friend, James, are recruited to look after the animal stars! It's an exciting and glamorous job. But then disaster strikes. Charley, the labrador, goes missing. Can James and Mandy save the day?PUPPIES IN THE PANTRY is one of the best-loved ANIMAL ARK stories. Have you read them all?
Animal as Machine: The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt
by Michel AnctilThrough the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery.Animal as Machine explores the life, work, and ideas of scientists who, branding themselves as physiologists, subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals acquire and process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. As medical physiology thrived in the nineteenth century, zoologists struggled to forge their own distinctive physiology predicated on understanding animal functions in a context of environmental adaptation and evolutionary forces. Physiological schools with distinct emphases that shaped their outlook sprang up around the world. Dividing their time between fieldwork in marine stations and laboratory experimentation, animal physiologists stood in awe of the diversity and ingenuity of the functional strategies by which animals survived.Animal as Machine tells a remarkable and insightful story of the larger-than-life personalities and gripping historical episodes that marked the emergence and blossoming of animal physiology.
Animal-Assisted Brief Therapy: A Solution-Focused Approach
by Teri PichotThis book provides an overview of Animal-Assisted Activities (AAA) and Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) and demonstrates how they can be incorporated into solution-focused treatment programs. Pichot, focusing on the use of therapy dogs, starts with a discussion of the basics of AAA/T and solution-focused therapy, as well as what every practitioner should know about dogs before partnering with them. Successfully combining all of this into an effective treatment program is considered next. Pichot draws upon her own experience developing an AAA/T program in the substance abuse counseling program at a county public health agency to illustrate the effective implementation of such a program and the struggles and lessons learned in doing so. Using AAA/T with special populations, cultural considerations, and the impact a therapy dog can have on the handler. New in this edition are client scenarios that demonstrate the therapist’s thought process when making clinical decisions about when and how to use a therapy dog. Sample forms and treatment plans are also provided that professionals can use to modify or structure in their work with clients. The concepts and information provided in this valuable guide will be helpful for any therapist regardless of whether he or she is in private practice or working in an agency setting.
Animal-Assisted Intervention: Thinking Empirically
by Angela K. FournierThis book brings the animal into the scholarly discussion of animal-assisted therapy and other interventions. Challenging the current reliance on outcome studies, the author offers a new way of thinking empirically about animal-assisted interventions—analysis of human-animal interaction as a critical component. Through empirical demonstrations from laboratory and applied settings, the book encourages practitioners and scholars to undergo a deeper examination of the basic interactions that occur between clients or patients and therapy animals. Dr. Fournier provides new ideas on measurement, experimentation, and interpretation of human-animal interaction, aimed at identifying the role of the animal in interventions for human health and well-being.
Animal-assisted Interventions: Recognizing and Mitigating Potential Welfare Challenges
by Patti Anderson Nicky Barendrecht-Jenken Anna Van Berg Darlene Blackman Eileen Bona Donna Clarke Linda Chassman Craddock Yvonne Eaton-Stull Aubrey H. Fine Cynnie Foss Angela Fournier Megan French Nina Ekholm Fry Lisa-Maria Glenk Temple Grandin Susan D. Greenbaum Taylor Chastain Griffin Joy R. Hanson Terri Hlava Ann R. Howie Batya Gugenheim Jaffe Amy Johnson Suzanne M. Kapral Jean Kirnan Ursula A. Kohl Veronica Lac Elizabeth A. Letson Helen Lewis Kirsty MacQueen Arieahn Matamonasa-Bennett Angela M. Moe Julie Ann Nettifee Zenithson Ng Brittany Panus Caiti Peters Laura Poleshuck Missy Reed Elizabeth Ruegg Brenda Rynders Sarah Schlote Shira Smilovici Ashley Thompson Risë VanFleet Melissa Y. Winkle Katrina WinsorThis is a practical book exploring how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. This resource is for social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies, etc.), as well as ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners. The book is a series of short chapters that depict a wide array of AAIs and their potential welfare concerns. The chapters include descriptions of the AAI offered, the welfare challenges, and ways to successfully mitigate these challenges. This book also covers critical topics including therapy animals' aging, retirement, and death as well as ethical issues including animal consent. Species include not only dogs, but horses, rabbits, and other small animals (e.g., guinea pigs, mice, etc.). Types of AAI involve individual interventions as well as crisis dogs (those who help after natural and man-made disasters), and residential animals. The book is designed to be a practical, engaging book with links to video and examples of real-life situations. It is evidence-based, yet user-friendly and directly applicable to students and practitioners. This highly practical and engaging book with examples of real life situations, videos and case studies, explores how to conduct animal assisted interventions in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. The book: · Explores how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. · Discusses potential welfare challenges including how to advocate for the animal, animal consent, and the animal's aging, retirement, or death. · Evidence based approach to mitigating welfare concerns for a wide range of therapy animals including dogs, horses, rabbits, rodents, and exotic animals - and their recipients. An invaluable resource for ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners, as well as social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies).
Animal-assisted Psychotherapy: Theory, Issues, And Practice
by Nancy Parish-PlassThe integration of animals into the therapy setting by psychotherapists has been a growing trend. Psychological problems treated include emotional and behavioral problems, attachment issues, trauma, and developmental disorders. An influential 1970s survey suggests that over 20 percent of therapists in the psychotherapy division of the American Psychological Association incorporated animals into their treatment in some fashion. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number is much higher today. Since Yeshiva University psychologist Boris Levinson popularized the involvement of animals in psychotherapy in the 1960s, Israel has come to be perhaps the most advanced country in the world in the area of animal-assisted psychotherapy (AAP). This is true especially in the areas of academic training programs, theory-building, and clinical practice. Great effort has been put into understanding the mechanisms behind AAP, as well as into developing ethical guidelines that take into account the therapist s responsibility toward both client and animal. This book exposes the world to the theory and practice of AAP as conceived and used in Israel. It emphasizes evidence-based and clinically sound applications with psychotherapeutic goals, as differentiated from other animal-assisted interventions, such as AAE (animal-assisted education) and AAA (animal-assisted activities), which may have education or skills-oriented goals. Not just anyone with a dog can call him-or herself an animal-assisted therapist. This volume demonstrates not only the promise of animal-assisted psychotherapeutic approaches, but also some of the challenges the field still needs to overcome to gain widespread legitimacy.
Animal at Large (Mysteries on Zoo Lane #2)
by Patricia Reilly GiffA missing animal at the zoo and strange noises coming from her backyard can mean only one thing for Tori: she's got a mystery to solve!Tori loves living on Zoo Lane with her family. Who else gets to live at a zoo--and with her cousin Sumiko visiting from Tokyo soon, this is shaping up to be the best summer ever! But when rumors of a missing animal start to spread, Tori wants to help . . . except she doesn't know which creature is on the loose. An ostrich? A little frog? There's also a strange noise coming from her backyard. It almost sounds like someone is calling her name! Tori is on the case.In this second book in the illustrated Mysteries on Zoo Lane series, two-time Newbery Honor author Patricia Reilly Giff has crafted a charming story about conservation, animal care, friendship, and problem-solving. In touch with the programs and initiatives that today's zoos are undertaking, Giff provides readers with a fresh look at the work of zoologists. Charming line artwork by Abby Carter appears throughout and keeps the story upbeat.
Animal Atlas (DK Where on Earth? Atlases)
by DKThis stunning new atlas is your first-class pass on a world tour of the homes of Earth's most incredible animals. The latest exciting title in DK's popular Where on Earth? series maps out the habitats of the world's mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, invertebrates, and more. Whether it's plotting the range of a lion, following the flight paths of birds, tracking great white sharks in the oceans, or exploring the migration of the monarch butterfly, you will see exactly where and how more than 100 extraordinary animal species live. What makes Animal Atlas unique are the maps themselves. Each one is individually commissioned in 3-D, with detail to show the habitat of each animal, as well as its geographic location. This reveals an astonishing amount of information about the behavior of these animals, from how seals are adapted to survive in freezing Antarctic seas to how beetles survive in the heat of the Sahara desert. There is also a focus on the conservation and protection of animals. Maps reveal the shrinking territories of some species, showing where they used to roam in the past compared to what's left of their range today. Whichever animal you're trying to track down, you're sure to find it in Animal Atlas.
Animal Atlas for Kids: A Visual Journey of Wildlife from Around the World
by Michael A. DiSpezioDiscover animals on every continent in a worldwide tour for kids ages 6 to 9 Spark children's curiosity and imagination with a whole world of amazing animals! This animal atlas introduces kids to more than 180 animals from all over the globe. They'll explore colorful maps of every continent and ocean and learn all about the creatures that live there. From the smallest insects to the biggest whales, kids can meet each one up close with photos and find out fun facts about their natural environment. Kids will discover animals like: CHIMPANZEE, African Rainforests—Chimpanzees live in trees and grasslands. Like other apes, they are highly intelligent. They also laugh when they're playing! TARANTULA, Central America—Tarantulas are large spiders. They have eight legs like other spiders, but they do not spin webs. Instead, they live in an underground burrow. SIBERIAN CHIPMUNK, Northern Asia—Like all chipmunks, a Siberian chipmunk has stripes along its back. It also has cheek pouches that carry food—kind of like grocery bags! BELUGA WHALE, Arctic Ocean—This white whale produces all sorts of sounds and has a thick layer of fat under its skin, called blubber. Encourage kids' passion for the natural world with this entertaining choice in educational animal books for kids.
Animal Attraction: The irresistible romance you've been looking for! (Animal Magnetism)
by Jill ShalvisThe second in the sexy, heartwarming Animal Magnetism series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Cedar Ridge and Lucky Harbor series. Fans of Bella Andre, Robyn Carr and Rachel Gibson will adore these romances with Jill's irresistible combination of humour and romance.Sunshine, Idaho, is the perfect place to give injured animals a refuge...or to find one. Veterinarian Dell Connelly suspects there's a reason his clinic's uber-efficient receptionist has taken shelter here. Jade Bennett couldn't be happier to escape the big-city jungle to work with injured animals...and enjoy the gorgeous views of her ruggedly sexy boss. Jade is used to planning everything in her life, but Dell's seductive, alluring ways have sparked an uncontrollable desire. And though Dell has never had time for love, Jade's strength and sass is the kind of call no red-blooded male can resist...Want more sexy, fun romance? Return to Sunshine, Idaho for more of the captivating Animal Magnetism series, visit spellbinding Lucky Harbor or take a trip to Cedar Ridge's unforgettable Colorado Mountains in Jill's other bestselling series.
Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos
by Elizabeth HansonOn a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to view animals in the zoo. Zoos developed new displays to simulate landscapes like the Amazon River basin and African forests. Exhibits similar to animals' natural habitats began to replace old-fashioned animal houses. But such displays are only the most recent effort of zoos to present their audiences with an authentic experience of nature. Since the first zoological park opened in the United States in Philadelphia in 1874, zoos have promised their visitors a journey into the natural world. And for more than a century they have been popular places for education and recreation: every year more than 130 million Americans go to zoos to look at the animals and enjoy a day outdoors. The first book-length history of American zoos, Animal Attractions examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections. Situated literally and culturally in the American middle landscape, zoos are concrete expressions of longstanding tensions between wildness and civilization, science and popular culture, education and entertainment. In their efforts to promote nature appreciation, they reveal much about how our culture envisions the natural world and the human place in it and how these ideas have changed.
Animal Babies (Nature Company Discoveries Libraries)
by Claire Craig Young StaffExplores the colorful world of animal babies, introducing children to young animals who are hatched from eggs, carried in pouches, born singly, or born in groups, in an interactive guide complete with fold-out panels and curiosity boxes.
Animal Babies
by Harry McnaughtBaby swans are called cygnets. Baby kangaroos are called joeys. Most importantly, though, they're as adorable as can be! And so are all the other baby animals in this extra-thick board book by celebrated children's book illustrator Harry McNaught.
Animal Band (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Cynthia Benjamin Andrea RingliNIMAC-sourced textbook. Music in the Air. The animals are making music in a band. Can you tell what they are playing?
Animal Baths
by Bob BarnerDiscover how all kinds of animals bathe in this playful exploration of bath time in the animal kingdom! Learn how tiny shrimp aid eels in keeping their teeth squeaky clean, and how schools of fish help sharks stay spic and span. Young readers will recognize their own bath time habits, and will love splashing and playing along in their own imaginative way. Simple rhyming text and vibrant, colorful collages by award-winning author and artist Bob Barner make this book ideal for the youngest readers and bathers!
Animal Behavior: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
by John ByersWhy do birds have regional accents? Can horses learn math? What do animals without eyes see? Questions such as these have fascinated scientists and animal lovers alike long before ethology - the study of animal behavior - became recognized as a science in the 1970s. Now, as issues of conservation and welfare dominate the field, an understanding of how and why animals act the way they do has become even more critical.Communicating the passion of the scientists who have driven the discipline, John Byers draws together evolutionary theory, ecology, population biology, genetics, physiology, and anatomy to demonstrate the diversity involved when studying animals. By explaining the mechanisms and motivations behind a range of animal movements he illuminates key issues about our own behavior while equipping readers with the core knowledge and skills to further their own studies.
Animal Behavior: Mechanisms, Ecology, Evolution
by Lee C. Drickamer Stephen H. Vessey Elizabeth JakobAnimal behavior is a broad discipline diverse perspectives, including anthropology, comparative psychology, ecology, ethology, physiology, and zoology.
Animal Behavior
by Janice Moore Michael BreedAnimal Behavior covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael D. Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of combined experience as university professors to this textbook, much of that teaching animal behavior. An entire chapter is devoted to the vibrant new field of behavior and conservation, including topics such as social behavior and the relationship between parasites, pathogens, and behavior. Thoughtful coverage has also been given to foraging behavior, mating and parenting behavior, anti-predator behavior and learning. This text addresses the physiological foundations of behavior in a way that is both accessible and inviting. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and concludes with thought-provoking questions. Additionally, special terms and definitions are highlighted throughout.
Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach
by Dustin Rubenstien John AlcockA comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the brain, genes, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding ecological and social environments.
Animal Behavior: Animal Defenses
by Christina WilsdonThis book presents the wide variety of physical and behavioral adaptations used by animals to defend themselves against predators. From insects that look like leaves, to fish that fly and toads with poisonous skins, the methods of defense seem limitless, with new ones continuing to be discovered.