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Sie haben noch nie etwas vom Stummelfußfrosch gehört? Oder dem Sumatra-Nashorn? Gut möglich, dass Sie auch nie von ihnen hören werden, denn sie sind dabei auszusterben. Wir erleben derzeit das sechste sogenannte Massenaussterbeereignis: In einem relativ kurzen Zeitraum verschwinden ungewöhnlich viele Arten. Experten gehen davon aus, dass es das verheerendste sein wird, seit vor etwa 65 Millionen Jahren ein Asteroid auf der Erde einschlug, mit den bekannten Folgen für die Dinosaurier. Doch dieses Mal kommt die Bedrohung nicht aus dem All, sondern wir tragen die Verantwortung. Wie keine andere Gattung zuvor haben wir Menschen das Leben auf der Erde verändert. In ihrem New York Times-Bestseller erklärt uns Elizabeth Kolbert, wie das geschehen konnte: Sie spricht mit Geologen, die verschwundene Ozeane erforschen, begleitet Botaniker, die der Waldgrenze in den Anden folgen, und begibt sich gemeinsam mit Tierschützern auf die Suche nach den letzten Exemplaren gefährdeter Arten. Sie zeigt, wie ernst die Lage ist, und macht uns zu unmittelbaren Zeugen der dramatischen Ereignisse auf unserem Planeten. (Quelle: www.buchhandel.de)

In 1982, Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote spot in western Australia where she’d heard wild dolphins regularly interact with people. She had no intention of staying long; she simply wanted to see if the rumors were true. That initial trip changed Smolker’s life; it commenced a fifteen-year scientific obsession that has culminated in this fascinating scientific adventure story–the first-ever intimate account of dolphin life in the wild.To Touch A Wild Dolphin is a seminal work that radically alters our fundamental understanding of these enigmatic creatures. Learning to identify scores of dolphins by their dorsal fin, Smolker and her team of scientists were able to conduct close and consistent studies that revealed the dolphin to be even more intelligent than we’d previously suspected. And while they were every bit as playful as we’ve known them to be, they also proved to have a dark and alarmingly violent side. But more than just a document on dolphins, this book is a touchingly personal look at the life of a scientist, at the rigors and sacrifices but also the wonders and joys of unending days in the field. Written with prose poetic and pristine, this book is nothing short of a landmark.

Wenn wir Bienen und Hummeln retten wollen, müssen wir uns auf die Suche nach ihren seltensten Arten begeben. Um zu verstehen, warum sie verschwinden, aber auch, um diese faszinierenden Geschöpfe in Erinnerung zu behalten. Der Biologe Dave Goulson hat sich an ihre pollenbestäubten Fersen geheftet. Egal, ob er den Kampf der Goldenen Patagonischen Hummel gegen invasive Arten beschreibt oder auf den Äußeren Hebriden die letzten Deichhummeln Großbritanniens aufspürt: Immer ist seine Leidenschaft für die Wildbestäuber ansteckend. Und seine Tipps, wie wir in unserer unmittelbaren Umwelt Bienen vor dem Sterben bewahren, machen unbändige Lust darauf, den heimischen Balkon mit Beinwell zu bepflanzen.

Großartig. Ackerman zeigt, was für einzigartige, beeindruckende Wesen Vögel sind – allen Herabsetzungen wie Spatzenhirn zum Trotz.

Das Buch zur spektakulären BBC-Fersehserie des Fernseh-Biologen David Attenborough mit prächtigen Farbfotos.

FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN, A BOOK THAT WILL MAKE YOU SEE YOURSELF AND THE WORLD AROUND YOU IN AN ENTIRELY NEW WAYFor a long time, biologists thought evolution was a necessarily slow process, too incremental to be observed in a lifetime. In Darwin Comes to Town, evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen shows that evolution can in fact happen extremely quickly, and in the strangest of places: the heart of the city.Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating the evolution of the animals and plants around us. Cities are extreme environments and, in a world of adapt or die, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is being forced to adopt fascinating new ways of surviving, and often thriving:*carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts*spiders in Vienna are adapting to build their webs near moth-attracting streetlights, while moths in some cities are developing a resistance to the lure of light bulbs*certain Puerto Rican city lizards are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete*Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heard over the din of traffic, while many pigeons have eschewed traveling “as the crow flies” in favor of following manmade roads.DARWIN COMES TO TOWN draws on these and other eye-popping examples to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony. It reveals that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin dreamed, while providing a glimmer of hope that our race toward overpopulation might not take the rest of nature down with us.

Fascinating text and superb photographs explore the world of elephants—their daily lives, the social structure of their families, how they raise their young, life in the herds, the leadership of the matriarch, and the solitary life of the powerful male. Discover how elephants can communicate with one another while many miles apart using sounds that are too low for the human ear to detect. Learn where elephants are found today and understand the crucial differences between those that live on the African and Asian continents. Other than man, elephants have the largest brain size—in proportion to their body weight—of any mammal. This book explores many aspects of their remarkable intelligence, some only recently discovered. Spirit of the Elephant includes over 200 dramatic color photographs which reveal countless facets of this amazing animal.

James Cheshire und Oliver Uberti zeigen uns mit Hilfe neuester digitaler Daten etwas, das bis vor kurzem noch ein Mysterium war: weshalb und wohin die Tiere wandern. Auf vielen liebevoll gestalteten, großformatigen Karten und Infografiken durchqueren Schildkröten ganze Ozeane, machen Wale an Unterwassergebirgen Rast und weichen riesige Waldsänger-Schwärme Tornados aus. Wir sehen erstmals, wohin Elefanten vor Wilderern fliehen, wie Otter kalifornische Küstengebiete zurückerobern, wie niederländische Seeschwalben den Weltrekord der längsten Tierwanderung brechen und wohin Wale vor Lärm fliehen. Dieser faszinierende Bildband ist ein ideales Geschenk für jeden Natur- und Tierliebhaber.

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