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I like to read, and unsurprisingly, I like to read about animals. An heck, watch a lot of Documentaries too!
A lot of what I read and watch influences what types of animals that I write about, so I think it's only right to talk about some of these titles as I finish them and maybe pass some recommendations on to others.
And hey, if you have any recommendations for me, I'd absolutely love to hear them!


Birds
Burnie, David. Bird. New York: DK Publishing, 2008.

Montgomery, Sy. Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur. New York: Free Press, 2010.

Endangered Species and Extinction
Adams, Douglas, and Mark Carwardine. Last Chance to See. New York: Ballentine Books, 1992.

Flannery, Tim and Peter Schouten. A Gap in Nature : Discovering the World's Extinct Animals. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001.

Evolution
Dawkins, Richard. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. New York: Free Press, 2009.

Invertebrates
Ellis, Richard. The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature. New York: Penguin Books, 1999. 

Mammals
Diamond, Jared. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.

Hoare, Philip. The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea. New York: Ecco, 2010.

Turner, Alan and Mauricio Anton. The Big Cats and Their Fossil RelativesNew York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Turner, Alan and Mauricio Anton. Evolving Eden : Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large Mammal Fauna. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Turner, Alan and Mauricio Anton. Prehistoric Mammals. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2004.

Wang, Xiaoming, and Richard H. Tedford. Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Turvey, Samuel. Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin.New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.


Prehistoric Animals

Bonner, Hannah. When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2009.


Florian, Douglas. Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings. New York: Beach Lane Books, 2009.

Long, John and Peter Schouten. Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

General Science
Wells, Robert E. Is A Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? Morton Grove, Il: Albert Whitman & Company, 1993.

Wells, Robert E. What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? Morton Grove, Il.: Albert Whitman & Company, 1997.

Wells, Robert E. What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? Morton Grove, Il: Albert Whitman & Company, 1995.

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