Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Animals

This splendid collection of photography is an unforgettable record of Africa in all its untamed beauty and raw emotion. From the brutality of the food chain to playful shots of animals at their most uninhibited, from majestic sunsets to brooding landscapes, there is no greater theatre than nature...

Together, Corey and Ajax travel through the steep high country throughout the South Island searching out kea nests. Their part in the kea conservation effort is essential and both Ajax and Corey can rightly be called conservation heroes. This story describes how Ajax was trained to be one of the...

This new title investigates the ever-popular subject of Australian butterflies. Early chapters explore the lifecycle of these insects, with stunning images showing the progression from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis stages to adult butterfly.

The star of Channel 5's Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly imparts his wisdom on how to have the best relationship with your dog, told through the stories of some of the special dogs he's loved and helped. Happy Dog. Happy Owner. A dog with behavioural issues is an unhappy dog. And likely has an unhappy ...

All The Queen's Corgis is a look at all the dogs our Sovereign has owned during the course of her life, their individual personalities, quirks and eccentricities and the special relationship she has had with them. This fun and affectionate book complete with wonderful photographs tells the storie...

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...