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Hook, Line & Sinker
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Nigel Andrew
Butterfly Effect
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Doom & Plume
Three books on birds
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Gavin Plumley
Paws for Thought
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Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog
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Patrick Scrivenor
Giving a Hoot
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
By Jennifer Ackerman
The Owl: A Biography
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Nigel Andrew
They Come Over Here, Take Our Nuts
Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home
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Mark Rowlands
Natural Rights
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
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Helen Bynum
Whither the Narwhal?
The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure
By Katherine Rundell, with illustrations by Talya Baldwin
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David Profumo
Net Benefits
A History of Fish and Fisheries of the River Thames
By David J Solomon
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Nigel Andrew
To Bee or Not to Bee
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
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Julian Baggini
#MeatToo
How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
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Emma Larkin
A Bangkok Python
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Hooked on a Feline
Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat
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Lost Cat
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Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
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Tom Fort
A Slippery Customer
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World’s Most Enigmatic Fish
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Nigel Andrew
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gyrfalcon
An Indifference of Birds
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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
By Jonathan C Slaght
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Tom Fort
They Don’t Even Have Smartphones
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The Naked Cat & Naked Dog
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Catwatching
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Patrick Scrivenor
Tears of a Wombat Owner
The Animal's Companion: People and their Pets, a 26,000 Year-Old Love Story
By Jacky Colliss Harvey
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Adam Douglas
Save the Werewolf
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Nigel Andrew
Meet Fido, Our New Nematode
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
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