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Miluj svoju rodinu, staraj sa o tých, ktorí sú ti zverení, nikdy sa nevzdávaj a neprestávaj sa hrať – to sú zásady vlkov. Empaticky sa starajú o starých a ranených druhov, láskavo vychovávajú svoje potomstvo a pri hre vedia na všetko zabudnúť. Vlky premýšľajú, majú predstavy, robia si plány, inteligentne ...
THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA Sunday Times Bestseller''Thrilling...the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.'' The Sun….
Nová kniha milovníka tatranskej prírody je plná úžasných fotografií a jedinečných textov. Pavol Lenko mnohokrát kráčal chodníkom v kosodrevine, za svitu mesiaca, v daždi aj snehu, aby v skorom rannom opare mohol so zatajeným dychom pozorovať a fotografovať plaché zvieratá. Zalistujte si v knihe a pripravte ...
V ďalšom diele knižnej série o pozoruhodných živočíchoch si Ivan Kňaze vzal na mušku skupinu zvierat, ktorá v mnohých z nás budí predovšetkým negatívne pocity: jedovaté zvieratá! S prekvapením zisťujeme, koľko ich žije aj na Slovensku, i keď okrem vretenice nie sú pre človeka príliš nebezpečné. Sú to ...
Prečo si samičky zvierat vyberajú istý typ samčekov? Ako vedci vysvetľujú ich voľbu a ako sa toto biologické dedičstvo prejavuje u ľudí? Nad týmito otázkami sa zamýšľa historička Erika Lorraine Milam, ktorá v knihe Zopár správnych chlapov analyzuje vedecké výskumy sexuálneho správania v súvislosti so ...
More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The \''third\'' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced ...
Cows are as varied as people. They can be highly intelligent or slow to understand, vain, considerate, proud, shy or inventive. Although much of a cow''s day is spent eating, they always find time for extra-curricular activities such as babysitting, playing hide and seek, blackberry-picking or fighting ...
In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies. This ground-breaking book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. From an evolutionary perspective, ...
Dian Fossey''s classic account of four gorilla families; the basis for the major movie starring Sigourney Weaver For thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the remote rain forests of the vo lcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa, establishing ...
At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we ...
Bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, invites you to reconnect with nature. As soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds. Thousands of small and large processes are taking place, details that are long often fascinating and beautiful. But we''ve long forgotten how to ...
