Studying the Wild: Memoirs of Animal Research in the Field

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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings
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Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist 4.15 avg rating — 21,056 ratings
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The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife 4.46 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Swimming with Orca: My Life with New Zealand's Killer Whales
Swimming with Orca: My Life with New Zealand's Killer Whales 4.46 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Spotted Sphinx
The Spotted Sphinx 4.35 avg rating — 325 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 61,494 ratings
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The Elephant Whisperer
The Elephant Whisperer 4.50 avg rating — 31,514 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man 4.36 avg rating — 8,858 ratings
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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur 4.25 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe 4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa 4.23 avg rating — 896 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)
Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 3,382 ratings
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Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve
Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve 4.35 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks 3.90 avg rating — 896 ratings
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Cry of the Kalahari
Cry of the Kalahari 4.33 avg rating — 8,282 ratings
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Forever Free: Elsa's Pride (Story of Elsa, #3)
Forever Free: Elsa's Pride (Story of Elsa, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Living Free (Story of Elsa, #2)
Living Free (Story of Elsa, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
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The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture
The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture 3.79 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide 4.02 avg rating — 11,607 ratings
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The Rhino Crash
The Rhino Crash 4.19 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Being Caribou
Being Caribou 4.24 avg rating — 736 ratings
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American Wolf
American Wolf 4.39 avg rating — 12,274 ratings
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The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness 4.19 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
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Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo 4.29 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story 4.19 avg rating — 6,046 ratings
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My Life with the Chimpanzees
My Life with the Chimpanzees 4.14 avg rating — 3,228 ratings
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A Wolf Called Romeo
A Wolf Called Romeo
by: Nick Jans
4.18 avg rating — 4,289 ratings
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Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season With The Wild Turkey
Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season With The Wild Turkey
by: Joe Hutto
4.48 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves 4.21 avg rating — 25,555 ratings
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Marsh Lions: The Story Of An African Pride
Marsh Lions: The Story Of An African Pride 4.40 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World 3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons 4.39 avg rating — 8,661 ratings
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The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado
The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado
by: Rick Bass
4.06 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Primates, 1)
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Primates, 1) 3.84 avg rating — 7,274 ratings
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The Man Who Lives with Wolves
The Man Who Lives with Wolves 4.13 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe
Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe 4.37 avg rating — 661 ratings
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The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps 4.11 avg rating — 2,867 ratings
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Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat (Scientists in the Field Series)
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat (Scientists in the Field Series) 4.17 avg rating — 236 ratings
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A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed
A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed 4.21 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)
Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 47,100 ratings
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters
Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters 4.06 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild
Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild 4.20 avg rating — 630 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Dogs
The Hidden Life of Dogs 3.67 avg rating — 2,585 ratings
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Wolves in the Land of Salmon
Wolves in the Land of Salmon 4.22 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants 3.72 avg rating — 4,485 ratings
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Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness 4.17 avg rating — 1,775 ratings
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The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild 4.19 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
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50 Years at Gombe
50 Years at Gombe 4.38 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating — 6,843 ratings
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Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos 4.08 avg rating — 1,868 ratings
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 3.91 avg rating — 2,080 ratings
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Soul of a Lion: One Woman's Quest to Rescue Africa's Wildlife Refugees
Soul of a Lion: One Woman's Quest to Rescue Africa's Wildlife Refugees 4.25 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Walking with Bears: One Man's Relationship with Three Generations of Wild Bears
Walking with Bears: One Man's Relationship with Three Generations of Wild Bears 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Summer With the Bears: Six Seasons in the North Woods
Summer With the Bears: Six Seasons in the North Woods 4.14 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Following the Last Wild Wolves
Following the Last Wild Wolves 4.60 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild
Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild 4.30 avg rating — 139 ratings
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In the Temple of Wolves: A Winter's Immersion in Wild Yellowstone
In the Temple of Wolves: A Winter's Immersion in Wild Yellowstone 4.21 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family
Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family 4.20 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Wild Horse Diaries
Wild Horse Diaries 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants 3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents
Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings
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In Praise of Wolves
In Praise of Wolves 4.31 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man 4.20 avg rating — 910 ratings
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Second Nature: Saving Tiger Landscapes in the Twenty-First Century
Second Nature: Saving Tiger Landscapes in the Twenty-First Century 4.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Living with Tigers
Living with Tigers 4.38 avg rating — 200 ratings
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An Elephant in My Kitchen
An Elephant in My Kitchen 4.39 avg rating — 6,106 ratings
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The White Lions of Timbavati
The White Lions of Timbavati 3.94 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Just Like Us: A Veterinarian’s Visual Memoir of Our Vanishing Great Ape Relatives
Just Like Us: A Veterinarian’s Visual Memoir of Our Vanishing Great Ape Relatives 4.63 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl 4.19 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
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Volcanic Adventures in Tonga - Species Conservation on Tin Can Island
Volcanic Adventures in Tonga - Species Conservation on Tin Can Island
by: Ann Göth
4.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Paddy
Paddy 4.34 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal and a Marine Biologist’s Fight to Save a Species
The Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal and a Marine Biologist’s Fight to Save a Species 4.22 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico
Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico 4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Tibet Wild: A Naturalist's Journeys on the Roof of the World
Tibet Wild: A Naturalist's Journeys on the Roof of the World 3.86 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People 4.13 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica 3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Save the Humans
Save the Humans 4.14 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain 3.91 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Innocent Killers: A Fascinating Journey Through the Worlds of the Hyena, the Jackal, and the Wild Dog
Innocent Killers: A Fascinating Journey Through the Worlds of the Hyena, the Jackal, and the Wild Dog 4.11 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams 4.40 avg rating — 2,941 ratings
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Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature 4.29 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Dolphin Diaries: My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas
Dolphin Diaries: My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas 3.81 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs 4.26 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
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Last Chance to See
Last Chance to See 4.32 avg rating — 25,704 ratings
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island 4.36 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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Happiness
Happiness 3.85 avg rating — 4,968 ratings
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The Naturalist: The Remarkable Life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch
The Naturalist: The Remarkable Life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Dance of the Wolves
Dance of the Wolves 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Amazing Monarch: The Secret Wintering Grounds of an Endangered Butterfly
The Amazing Monarch: The Secret Wintering Grounds of an Endangered Butterfly 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal 3.83 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins 4.04 avg rating — 3,303 ratings
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The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls
The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls 3.68 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds 4.16 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Deer Man: Seven Years Living with Deer in the Wild
Deer Man: Seven Years Living with Deer in the Wild 3.96 avg rating — 757 ratings
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To Touch a Wild Dolphin: A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
To Touch a Wild Dolphin: A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures 4.10 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The Elephant Scientist
The Elephant Scientist 4.10 avg rating — 446 ratings
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