Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
$24.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals | Reading Level: very good
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses q ...Show more
The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts by Maja Säfström
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
An artfully playful collection of unexpected and remarkable facts about animals, illustrated by Swedish artist Maja Safstrom. Did you know that an octopus has three hearts? Or that ostriches can't walk backward? These and many more fascinating and surprising facts about the animal kingdom (Bees never sl ...Show more
Cabin Porn by Zach Klein; Steven Leckart
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals | Reading Level: very good
'Addictive ... a charter for wistfulness' Observer'... 'An enchanting rabbit hole of handmade houses' The New York Times'.... The Bible of pared back, natural living' Der Spiegel .... 'Take a deep breath and let the inspiration sink in' GQ Cabin Porn began as an on-line project created by a group of fri ...Show more
The Bird Way A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. 'There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.' Thi ...Show more
Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su
$19.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
You won't know whether to laugh or cry at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, brought to you courtesy of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com. The site's plethora of bad taxidermy examples - including a squirrel riding a rattlesnake like a cowboy, and various anatomically imaginative rendering ...Show more
Muster Dogs: The bestselling companion book to the original popular ABC TV series for fans of Todd Alexander, Ameliah Scott and James Herriot by Aticia Grey
$37.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
An outback story of kelpies, red dirt and the future of a family farm. A farmer's best friend and arguably one of their most reliable workers is a good dog. Aticia Grey - Teesh as she is known to friends and family - picked up her first team of kelpies in 2013 and has never looked back. In her area of ...Show more
Talk to Your Cat: How to communicate with your feline friend by Susie Green
$24.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
We all know cats can talk - but how do we find out what our cat is actually saying? Talk to Your Cat is the book that reveals the secrets of the enigmatic feline. With a host of cat lore and wisdom, as well as explaining body language, facial expressions, and the meaning of meows, the book breaks dow ...Show more
How to Speak Horse by Andrea Eschbach
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
Easy lessons in 'horse-speak' for pony-mad kids. This lovely book, chock full of beautiful colour photgraphs, explains the basics of horse body language and how to 'talk back'. With a focus on groundwork that is safe and fun for children, it provides an introduction to natural horsemanship and shows how ...Show more
Sensational Sharks by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
$27.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
Sensational Sharks is the first book of a brand-new picture-book series from Team Flannery that deep-dives into some of the most beloved and surprising creatures around the world! Have you ever heard about the cookie-cutter shark, which bites out cookie-shaped morsels of flesh from much larger animals ...Show more
The Complete Dog Breed Book: Choose the Perfect Dog For You by DK
$60.00 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
From the tiny Chihuahua to the towering Great Dane, discover all there is to know about hundreds of dog breeds from across the world in this stunning DK encyclopedia that covers all things canine.Combining breeds, behaviour, care, and training advice, this book contains everything you need to know to he ...Show more
Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss
$39.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
The natural history of humankind, told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been i ...Show more
Seven Cats I Have Loved by Anat Levit
$24.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the suggestion of her daughters, and then six more in quick succession. She recounts how each cat came into her life, their distinct demeanours and curiosities and their ab ...Show more