Science is now providing some remarkable insights into animal behavior, with crocodiles, for example, emerging as devoted parents, and elephants - like whales - able to communicate with each other across long distances by ultrasound...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:80
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781844031092
Fish of all colours, shapes and sizes have been kept and enjoyed for hundreds of years. With The Aquarium Owner's Handbook, you will learn how to create and maintain a secure and comfortable environment for your fish that meets their needs and shows them off to their best advantage. Easy to follow...more details Format:Hardback
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780754813736
A rich information source for over 450 birds, clearly and beautifully illustrated with photographs and artworks....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
A beautifully illustrated comprehensive collection of American birds, featuring species from the USA, Canada Central and South America...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
The birds are beautifully illustrated and grouped according to habitat and type. There are also details for each species on behavior, identification...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
An essential refernce manual for bird-keepers at all levels, this book takes an excellent practical look at everyday birdcare....more details Format:Paperback
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781844766963
This handbook is the complete reference guide for anyone who is interested in keeping birds, regardless of the scale of their project. It offers useful advice for the setting up and maintaining of all caged bird environments; from a small cage to a highly populated aviary. All the key areas related to caring for birds are covered...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781842156735
This is a family guide to caring for rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils, hamsters, rats and mice, and chinchillas in a domestic setting. It offers practical information such as how to select the right small pet for your lifestyle...more details Format:Paperback
Images too small to see with the naked eye spring to incredible life! Discover the wonderful world of hidden detail by placing the enclosed mirror in the center of each stunning DK photo spread...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780007122844
A title in the Collins Family Pet series. This practical guide gives all the advice necessary to parents and children for raising a healthy, happy budgerigar. Illustrated with colour photographs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780007122820
This guide gives all the practical advice necessary to parents and children to raising a healthy, happy hamster. All aspects of everyday care are covered...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780754811794
This is an authoritative guide to keeping pet birds in the home or outdoor aviary, both for the novice and the seasoned breeder. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:132
This book is a comprehensive visual guide and reference source for over 1250 birds of America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Polar regions...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781405302685
Whether you are an expert or have just bought your first goldfish this is the definitive guide to choosing and keeping freshwater or marine fish...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
"Encyclopedia of Aquarium and Pond Fish is the definitive guide and comprehensive reference for all aquarium and pond fish enthusiasts. This is the first book on the market to provide care and identification information on all types of fish for every type of environment...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780756636784
Encyclopedia of Aquarium and Pond Fish is the definitive guide and comprehensive reference for all aquarium and pond fish enthusiasts...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
The term exotic traditionally refers to those creatures unfamiliar to the general pet-keeping public, but gradually more and more people are choosing unusual pets...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
Here are useful facts on the most often collected reptiles, amphibians, insects, and arachnids. Details include behavior, feeding, breeding, and maintaining a healthful environment....more details Format:Prebound
Louis Wain and Beatrix Potter adored them but Disney preferred dogs; cats have been depicted in art, books and, more recently, film and TV as lovable but determined creatures. Where the dog is loving but stupid...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781844035281
Provides essential advice on nutrition, how to assess the health of your cat, and tips on looking after your cat's well-being. This book aims to help ensure that your cat remains happy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780600616535
Obesity among cats is a long-overlooked and increasing problem, with many owners desperate for an effective approach to tackling their favourite feline's growing girth.This book is packed with essential advice on nutrition...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781844035298
Presents a holistic approach to the health of your dog, offering advice on how to maintain fitness through regular exercise, a balanced diet and discipline at the dinner table. This book provides information on exercise...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780600616542
Obesity in pets is a growing problem, with more dogs than ever taking after their increasingly overweight owners. Help is at hand, however, with FAT DOG THIN...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781931993104
One of the most popular choices for home aquariums, Cichlids come in a variety of colours, shapes, and sizes. From the Fish Keeping Made Easy series...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781931993111
From the Fish Keeping Made Easy series, Freshwater Aquariums explains the do's and don'ts of one of the most popular hobbies in the world. With the help of more than 140 photographs and diagrams...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780789495884
Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780670041824
Being able to understand the complex system of a dog's language is an important skill for any owner to master. This book teaches that through observation of your dog's behaviour an owner can understand these sings and become attuned to their mood and needs....more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
A beautifully illustrated guide to over 1000 birds from around the world, detailing distribution, habitat, size, feeding and nesting behavior....more details Format:Hardback Pages:512
This series aims to help children and parents to choose their pet, prepare for it and then look after it properly, giving them a real sense of responsibility. This volume is filled with practical information from choosing a kitten or cat...more details Format:Hardback Pages:20
This wonderful series helps children and parents to choose a pet, prepare for its arrival, and then to look after it properly. Written by a best-selling expert in the field children will immediately be able to identify with the colour photographs showing children of their own age looking after pets...more details Format:Hardback Pages:20
This wonderful series helps children and parents to choose a pet, prepare for its arrival, and then to look after it properly. Written by a best-selling expert in the field children will immediately be able to identify with the colour photographs showing children of their own age looking after pets...more details Format:Hardback Pages:20
This series aims to help children and parents to choose their pet, prepare for it and then look after it properly, giving them a real sense of responsibility. Packed with up-to-date information including how to find guinea pig breeders on the Internet and the best varieties to keep...more details Format:Hardback Pages:20
Aimed at children aged six to eight years, this text is filled with fun and practical information about rabbits, from choosing a rabbit, to grooming and healthcare...more details Format:Hardback Pages:24
This work is an authoritative family guide to choosing and caring for puppies and dogs, kittens and cats, small mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and fish. It includes all pet types...more details Format:Hardback Pages:512
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781861553348
Puppy School is the essential reading and practical home reference for all puppy owners and would-be puppy owners. Full coverage of the entire training process ensures you end up with a pup that is properly trained...more details Format:Hardback Pages:144
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780793805112
The most comprehensive finch and softbill book ever published by T.F.H. Features expert advice on feeding and nutrition for finches and softbills...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
A practical guide to choosing and caring for puppies and dogs, kittens and cats, small mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and fish. It includes various pet types...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:512
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780754821663
This comprehensive illustrated encyclopaedia of birds of the world presents a fantastic visual guide to many of the major avian species and families...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:512
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780764147258
Often, when a dog owner finds that his pet has become excited, he can't tell if the excitement indicates joy or anxiety. This book shows how to pick up on all the signals that dogs send out through their voices...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780764163654
This big, handsome volume describes dogs of all sizes, shapes, traits, and personalities. Author David Alderton wants every prospective owner to find the very best dog to fit his or her own personality and lifestyle...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:176
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781844765959
- Practical advice on choosing and buying a pet, housing, feeding, handling, showing and healthcare. - Features all the equipment you will need to house...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781843403937
Earth is a great global community, a melting pot in which various populations around the world share and blend their cultures. This is also true of the unsung dog hero - the mutt...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781843091646
Practical family reference guide to keeping pet birds, with expert advice on buying, understanding, breeding and exhibiting birds. Step-by-step instructions on caring for pet birds in the home or outdoor aviary...more details Pages:256
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781780191102
A complete practical guide to pet-keeping, covering all aspects of choosing and caring for kittens and cats, puppies and dogs, and popular small mammals. Each chapter features the most popular breeds in each species...more details Format:Paperback Pages:264
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780785819271
Stunning, large format book with beautiful pictures of many breeds--from Abyssinian to Turkish Van, Maine Coon to Ragdoll--with a wealth of information on behavior and care...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:254
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780785819288
A lavishly ilustrated book with beautiful pictures of many breeds--from Afghan to Yorkshire Terrier, German Shepherd to Labrador Retriever--with extensive information on beavior...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780715325896
Give you an all round view of over 100 dog breeds. This book offers insight into how each breed performs as a pet from technical information to character traits. It features 500 colour photographs showing front...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780754805076
This reference provides all the care and advice readers should need to keep pets safe, happy and healthy. It looks at a wide range of mammals from rabbits...more details Format:Hardback
This beautiful comprehensive directory and practical reference book is an essential manual for bird-keepers of all levels--from the novice looking to keep a single pet bird indoors to sthe seasoned breeder wishing to extend an existing aviary collection....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
* Essential colour-illustrated family reference guide to keeping the most popular pet species and breeds. * Illustrated with over 800 full-colour photographs and with an informative text from one of the subject's leading world experts. * Practical advice on choosing and buying a pet...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
Praise for the previous edition: The full-color photographs are detailed and intriguing...A compact volume that contains a wealth of information for reports....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780713727524
Here they are, graceful and mysterious, all the world's wild felines -- from large, majestic lions to small fierce bobcats. Dozens of fullcolor...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
A comprehensive, colour reference to birds around the world, with an introduction which covers the natural history of these amazing creatures. The text and illustrations aim to give an insight into the enormous range and diversity of birds on the Earth. These range from the tiny hummingbird to the towering ostrich...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
Everything you need to know about choosing, buying and enjoying your Border Terrier including breed background, settling in your new arrival...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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David Alderton
ISBN:9781845843205
Everything you need to know about choosing, buying and enjoying your Cockapoo including breed background, settling in your new arrival, establishing a daily routine and what to expect as your canine companion grows up...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780762106790
A breakthrough, practical book every dog owner needs to help their maturing dog live a longer, healthier life This guide offers practical, lifestyle-oriented advice for the older dog--filled with up-to-the-minute information for caring for your best friend....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:160
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David Alderton
ISBN:9780762108183
Enhance your relationship with your cat with this helpful practical guide that reveals insights into how to communicate with your cat....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
With only nine pieces to these puzzles, kids may think it's going to be easy - but just wait and see. Each of the 75mm squares will only fit together one way - making it much harder than it looks....more details Format:Hardback Pages:24
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David ALDERTON
ISBN:9781845103934
With only nine pieces to these puzzles kids may think it's going to be easy - but just wait and see. Each of the 75mm squares will only fit together one way - making it much harder than it looks....more details Format:Hardback Pages:24
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David Alderton;Marc Henrie
ISBN:9780789489807
Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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David Alderton;Bruce Tanner
ISBN:9780816057146
"Crocodiles and Alligators of the World provides a broad overview of all 22 species of crocodilians. Among the oldest surviving vertebrates on the planet...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:190
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David Alderton;Tracy Morgan
ISBN:9780789489814
Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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David Alderton;Bruce Tanner
ISBN:9780816057153
Many of nature's most curious and intriguing creatures can be discovered in the extraordinary Of the World set. Brought back into print by popular demand...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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David Alderton;Kim Burton JaneTaylor
ISBN:9780764544156
Ever wondered why dogs sniff each other when they meet? Or what drives your puppy to chew your sneakers? In How to Talk with Your Dog, discover the complex language and behavior of dogs. Find out what your pet is really trying to say when he flattens his ears...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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W Nigel Bonner;David Alderton
ISBN:9780816052158
Praise for the previous edition: An excellent source for research. Highly recommended., The Book Report While reptiles often...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Alderton David
ISBN:9780007436705
This comprehensive family guide is full of helpful information and expert advice for choosing and owning a hamster. All aspects of everyday care are covered...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Alderton David
ISBN:9781845663438
The Dog Decoder shows you how to pick up on all the signals and messages that your dog sends out to you, and to others. Combining carefully selected photographs with expert annotation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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AldertonDavid
ISBN:9781741697681
With so many dog breeds available, it can be difficult to know which one to choose. How can you tell if your dog will bark loudly and disturb the neighbours...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176