Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Animals

This memoir tells the tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever. Ruth Ruck's family live on a Welsh mountain farm, no strangers to cow pats on the carpet and nesting hens in the larder. When dark days strike, they embark on a farming experiment to cheer them all up - but...

Amanka is a word from one of the languages used by people living in the rural north west of Uganda. It's a beautiful, rich word that means "family". Yet, in the forests and villages of this part of Uganda - and across much of tropical Africa and Asia - families are at war. In the narrowing margin...

True Blue tales of clever and courageous canines. Some say Australia was built on the sheep's back, but it's just as true to say our nation was built in the dog kennel - after all, it was the dogs that were rounding up the sheep. Australians love their dogs - we're home to more than 4 million pet...

During the last century, global domestic cat numbers rocketed past 200 million, along with a surge in cat diseases and numbers of feral cats and sick, injured and malnourished cats. Cat shelters are overflowing. Hundreds of thousands of cats are euthanised every year by despondent animal welfare ...

A leading palaeontologist discovers the missing link in human evolution. Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Bohme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined. The fossilised bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media f...

'Animal Babies' collects over 120 incredible, heart-warming images of creatures in the wild. Accompanying a new BBC natural history series, it captures precious moments in the young lives of a host of animals, from wolf pups squabbling in the pack and elephant calves wobbling to their feet to bab...

Do you love your animals but feel there is something missing, and wish you could understand what they're trying to tell you? Do some of their behaviours leave you baffled or their fears put you in a frazzle? This book covers the essentials of animal communication, otherwise known as interspecies ...