Exploring Animal Behavior: A Collection of 5 Essential Reads
Classic Natural History on Animal Intelligence, Instinct, Social Life, and ConservationBy Charles Albert Jones, W. P. Pycraft, William T. Hornaday, William J. Long
Length32h 4m
About this audiobook
Exploring Animal Behavior gathers five foundational readings that approach nonhuman life through observation, narrative, zoological description, and ethical reflection. Moving between field-based accounts, studies of birds and mammals, and meditations on instinct, intelligence, adaptation, and social life, the collection illuminates a formative period in popular natural history. Its range is especially valuable: vivid encounters with animals coexist with more systematic inquiry, allowing readers to trace how behavior became both a scientific subject and a source of literary wonder. The volume brings together Charles Albert Jones, W. P. Pycraft, William T. Hornaday, and William J. Long, writers whose work participated in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century expansion of naturalist writing. Zoological expertise, conservation advocacy, outdoor observation, and accessible prose converge here, reflecting debates over animal mind, human responsibility, and the proper methods of studying wildlife. Their differing assumptions and registers enrich the anthology, revealing both the achievements and tensions of an era that helped shape modern environmental consciousness. Recommended for students of animal studies, environmental humanities, literary natural history, and the history of science, this collection offers an unusually concentrated encounter with diverse ways of seeing animals. Readers will find educational breadth as well as an engaging dialogue between empirical attention, imaginative sympathy, and conservation-minded critique.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length32 hrs 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Courtship of Animals
2PREFACE
3CHAPTER III MAN’S COUSINS THE APES
4CHAPTER V THE LION AND HIS KIN
5CHAPTER VI COURTSHIP AMONG BIRDS
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6CHAPTER VII THE SEXUAL SELECTION THEORY AS APPLIED TO BIRDS
7CHAPTER VIII SOME “COLD-BLOODED” LOVERS
8CHAPTER XI BEETLES THAT “BLUFF”
9CHAPTER XII SCORPIONS, SPIDERS AND CRABS
10CHAPTER XIII SOME STRANGE MARRIAGE-CUSTOMS: AND VIRGIN BIRTHS
11The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations
12The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations
13THE CURTAIN.
14IV
15VIII
16XII
17XIII
18XIV
19XV
20III. THE HIGHER PASSIONS
21XXIII
22BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY
23Ways of Wood Folk
24Ways of Wood Folk
25WAYS OF WOOD FOLK.
26IV. A WILD DUCK.
27VII. CROW-WAYS.
28XI. A FELLOW OF EXPEDIENTS.
29Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life
30Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life
31PREFACE.
32Wilderness Ways
33Wilderness Ways
34PREFACE.
35III. KAGAX THE BLOODTHIRSTY.
36VI. CLOUD WINGS THE EAGLE.
37VIII. HUKWEEM THE NIGHT VOICE.
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