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Although the skunk generally waddles through life in a peaceful and solitaryway, the animal is feared by humans due to the pungent odour it emitswhen threatened, and has been both demonized and venerated throughouthistory. Skunk

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For most of us, snails do not elicit feelings of warmth or affection. Apart from our repugnance at its appearance, our relationship with the snail has been influenced by the harm it has inflicted over the years on our garden seedlings. The author intends to change our perspectives on this little but much maligned creature.

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Of more than 8,000 bird species, the swan is surely one of the most easily recognised. Airborne, the swan is a majestic sight: with its long, slender neck outstretched, it glides gracefully with slow, strong wing-beats. This title offers a comprehensive natural and cultural history of this most dignified of birds.

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Uncovers the natural history of the tiger, showing how the decline of its natural habitat and relentless pressure from poachers and farmers have turned a naturally retiring, solitary creature into an aggressive, man-eating predator. This book is of interest to the wide audience who admires this wonderfully vital, yet highly endangered species.

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Leaping effortlessly from the bright stream into the human mind, the trout captivates like no other fish. In telling its story James Owen follows the trout around the world; starting in Europe and North America, he then embarks for exotic new territories with a voyage that took the creature from England to Australia in the nineteenth-century. Trout

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Walrus explores the intriguing and affecting history of an animal that remains on the frontline of contemporary conservation debates.

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Wild Boar traces the history of the interaction between humans and wild boar in fascinating detail, from the iconic beasts of myth and legend, such as the Calydonian Boar, to the adoption of the boar as a heraldic device.

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Wolf, a new account of an animal feared, reviled and revered, which has always evoked powerful emotions in humans, investigates the latest scientific understanding of the wolf, as well as its place in literature, history and folklore.