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Psy, kynológia 
Kone 
Poľovníctvo 
Vtáky, hydina 
Rybárstvo 
Mačky 
Hmyz 
Akvárium 
Terárium 
Zvieratá, chovateľstvo - ostatné
zobraziť:
Zvládni to s managementem!
Psi přinášejí do našich životů spoustu radosti, ale jejich chování občas dokáže ztrpčovat život nám i našemu okolí - vyjíždění po cizích psech, skákání na lidi, hrabání v záhonech, štěkání na cokoli, co se objeví za plotem, loupeže v kuchyni – to vše může být skutečnou zatěžkávací zkouškou i pro jinak harmonický vztah mezi člověkem a psem.
Ale s tím vším vám pomůže management.
Základem této metody je prevence, tedy předcházení vzniku samotného problémového chování. Juliana DeWillemsová nabízí praktické a snadno proveditelné způsoby, které přímo snižují výskyt frustrujícího a nežádoucího chování pomocí promyšleného využívání prostředí kolem vás. Ve své knize vysvětluje, jak se psi učí, proč se často chovají tak, jak se chovají, a jak můžeme omezit chování, které si nepřejeme, nebo mu rovnou předejít.
Dogs of the World
In Dogs of the World, animal illustrator Lili Chin introduces more than six hundred breeds of dog from around the globe in a captivating canine gallery, from the English Springer Spaniel and Moroccan Aidi to the Thai Ridgeback and the New Guinea Singing Dog – as well as those dogs with no defined breed at all.
You’ll learn about different dog types and their working roles, such as herding, livestock guarding, scent detection, dog sports, and companionship; understand what terms like purebreed and landrace mean; trace the history of modern dogs through a vibrantly visual timeline; and pick up insights on breed health risks, personality traits, and how ancestry DNA tests work.
Featuring adorable artwork alongside rigorous research vetted by dog history experts, behaviour professionals and veterinarians, Dogs of the World is a loving and accessible guide to the diversity of our canine companions.
The Cat Operators Manual
Get the most out of your domestic cat with this helpful and handy Cuddle Unit 5™ operating instruction manual.
The Cat Operator's Manual is a fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete with assembly, warnings, insights into all of your Cuddle Unit 5™'s features and modes, and a bonus sticker sheet. We recommend that you read these operating instructions thoroughly to quickly become acquainted with your Cuddle Unit 5™ and enjoy all of its features.
In these pages, you'll find many useful tips and information concerning your safety, how to care for your Cuddle Unit 5™, and how to maintain Cuddle Unit 5™’s interest in you, including:
Decipher your Cuddle Unit 5™'s Mood Mode Indicator.
Understand when your unit is in Eco Mode and when it's time for Solar Charging.
Learn more about how Turbo Mode is activated.
Read up on how your Cuddle Unit 5™ will interface with robotic vacuum cleaners and recreational catnip.
With tongue-in-cheek advice and spot-on illustrations that feel just like browsing a real user manual, this book gets two opposable thumbs up. We hope you enjoy your Cuddle Unit 5™ and wish you safe and pleasant petting.
Thank you for choosing Cuddle Unit 5™—we value your trust in us.
Perfect for:
Cat lovers
Gift-giving from the cat, for first-time cat owners, or to celebrate a pet adoption
Engineers, technical writers, and anyone who enjoys spending time with a good operations manual
Fans of quirky books and popular animal humor books such as I Could Pee on This, The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, and How to Pet a Cat
Apes on the Edge
A moving story of survival and an eye-opening introduction to an extraordinary community of chimps and people. Fongoli chimpanzees are unique for many reasons. Their female hunters are the only apes that regularly hunt with tools, seeking out tiny bush babies with wooden spears. Unlike most other chimps, these apes fear neither water nor fire, using shallow pools to cool off in the Senegalese heat. Up to 90 percent of their home range burns annually—the result of human hunting or clearing for gold mining—and Fongoli chimpanzees have learned to predict the movement of such fires and to avoid them. The study of Fongoli chimps is also unique. While most primate research occurs in isolated reserves, Fongoli chimpanzees live alongside humans, and as primatologist and anthropologist Jill Pruetz reports, this shared habitat creates both challenges and opportunities. The issues faced by Fongoli chimpanzees—particularly food scarcity and environmental degradation—are also issues faced by their human neighbors. This connection is one reason Pruetz, who has studied Fongoli apes for over two decades, created the nonprofit Neighbor Ape in 2008 to provide for the welfare of the humans who share their landscape with apes. It is also why Pruetz decided to write this book, the first to offer readers a view of these chimps’ lives and to explain the specific conservation efforts needed to help them. Incorporating stories from Pruetz’s time in the field, including the compelling rescue of a young chimp from poachers, Apes on the Edge opens a fascinating window into primate research, conservation, and the inner workings of a very special population of our closest nonhuman relatives.
Mammals
From a modest beginning in the form of a little shrew-like, nocturnal, insect eating ancestor that lived 200 million years ago, mammals evolved into the huge variety of different kinds of animals we see today. Many species are still small, and follow the lifestyle of the ancestor, but others have adapted to become large grazers and browsers, like the antelopes, cattle, rhinos, and elephants, or the lions, hyaenas, and wolves that prey upon them. Yet others evolved to be specialist termite eaters able to dig into the hardest mounds, or tunnel creating burrowers, and a few took to the skies as gliders and the bats. Many live partly in the water, such as otters, beavers, and hippos, while whales and dugongs remain permanently in the seas, incapable of ever emerging onto land.In this Very Short Introduction T. S. Kemp explains how it is a tenfold increase in metabolic rate - endothermy or "warm-bloodedness" - that lies behind the high levels of activity, and the relatively huge brain associated with complex, adaptable behaviour that epitomizes mammals. He describes the remarkable fossil record, revealing how and when the mammals gained their characteristics, and the tortuous course of their subsequent evolution, during which many bizarre forms such as sabre-toothed cats, and 30-tonne, 6-m high browsers arose and disappeared. Describing the wonderful adaptations that mammals evolved to suit their varied modes of life, he also looks at those of the mainly arboreal primates that culminated ultimately in Homo sapiens.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Starlings
Has there ever been a more hated bird than the European starling? Let loose in New York City’s Central Park by a misguided aristocrat, the starlings were supposed to help curb insect outbreaks and add to the tuneful choir of other songbirds. Rather than staying put, the dark and speckled starlings marched across the continent like a conquering army. In less than sixty years, they were in every state in the contiguous United States and their numbers topped two hundred million. Cities came under siege; crops buckled beneath their weight. Public sentiment quickly soured. A bitter, baffling, and sometimes comical war on starlings ensued. Weapons included dynamite, guns, bounties, fake owls, real owls, rubber snakes, balloons, itching powder, and greased building ledges. Still, artists and scientists marveled at their undulating aerial formations, which seemed equal parts poetry and mathematics. Keen listeners recognized the starling as one of the world’s great vocal mimics, imitating everything from fellow birds and cell phones to barking dogs, car alarms, and TV commercials. And then there were their undeniable skills of adaptation and survival. What if there was more to these stubborn villains than once thought? Mike Stark’s Starlings is a first-of-its-kind history of starlings in America, an oddball, love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, and one bird’s tenacious will to endure.
The Great Auk
The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great AukThe great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy to capture, the birds were in trouble whenever sailors visited their once-remote breeding colonies. Places like Funk Island, off north-east Newfoundland, became scenes of unimaginable slaughter, with birds killed in their millions. By 1800 the auks of Funk Island were gone. A scramble by private collectors for specimens of the final few birds then began, a bloody, unthinking destruction of one of the world’s most extraordinary species.But their extinction in 1844 wasn’t the end of the great auk story, as the bird went on to have a remarkable afterlife; skins, eggs and skeletons became the focus for dozens of collectors in a story of pathological craving and unscrupulous dealings that goes on to this day.In a book rich with insight and packed with tales of birds and of people, Tim Birkhead reveals previously unimagined aspects of the bird’s life before humanity, its death on the killing shores of the North Atlantic, and the unrelenting subsequent quest for its remains.The great auk remains a symbol of human folly and the necessity of conservation. This book tells its story.
Groundbreakers
''One of the most notable works of recent nature writing.'' HELEN MACDONALDAfter centuries of absence, wild boar are back in Britain. What does this mean for us – and them?Big, messy and mysterious – crossing paths with a wild boar can conjure fear and joy in equal measure. Driven to extinction seven hundred years ago, a combination of the species’ own tenacity and illegal releases from the 1980s has seen several populations of this beast of myth begin to roam English and Scottish woods once more.With growing worry over the impacts on people and the countryside, the boar’s right to exist in Britain has been heavily debated. Their habitat-regenerating actions benefit a host of other wildlife, yet unlike beavers, these ecosystem engineers remain unloved by many. Why is there no clamour to reintroduce them? And, with the few boar in England threatened by poaching and culling, why are we not doing more to prevent their re-extinction?In Groundbreakers, Chantal Lyons moves to the boar’s stronghold of the Forest of Dean to get up close and personal with this complex, intelligent and quirky species, and she meets with people who celebrate their presence – or want them gone. From Toulouse and Barcelona where they are growing in number and boldness, to Kent and Sussex where they are fading away again, to Inverness-shire where rewilders welcome them, join Chantal as she reveals what it might take for us to coexist with wild boar.
Birds, Sex and Beauty
In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory. 'FASCINATING' The Times ‘Matt Ridley is one of our finest science writers … A treat for bird lovers and evolutionary biologists alike’ Richard Dawkins Animals rarely treat sex as a simple or mutually beneficial transaction. Choosing a mate is often a transcendent event to be approached with reverence, suspicion, angst and quite a bit of violence. For Matt Ridley, nowhere is this more acute than in birds. From a freezing hide on the Pennine moors at dawn, Ridley closely studies the rare Black Grouse. He is there for the lek – an elaborate courtship ritual of squabbling and strutting males. They dance and sing for hours each day to attract a mate over several months. With most males leaving exhausted and unsuccessful, Ridley looks at how females make their choice to cast fresh light on how such rituals have evolved and why. His pursuit follows five generations of biologists from Darwin and Wallace to the present day, uncovering how they have grappled with the implications of sexual selection as an eccentric, gonzo form of evolution. While most Victorian scientists found it impossible to believe female birds could select mates, Darwin was obsessed with the idea of sexual as well as natural selection. Drawing on his own lifelong passion, Ridley eavesdrops on the elaborate displays of bird species around the world, from the complex art installations made by Bowerbirds in Australia to the bubbling calls of Curlews in the UK’s declining moorlands. In a wonderful blend of nature writing and elegant exploration of recent evolutionary theory, Birds, Sex and Beauty shows not only how mate choice has shaped the natural world, including humans, but how the song and plumage of birds can be thrillingly, breathtakingly beautiful. ‘Clear and entertaining … Ridley explains all this history with lucidity and wit’New Statesman ‘Most of this fascinating and accessible book is about birds … Ridley, very clearly, loves birds — and the enthusiasm is infectious’The Times ‘This is a fascinating story told with wit, scholarship and the passion of a true conversationist. Lord Ridley writes in the best tradition of great British naturalists’ Country Life ‘Birds, Sex & Beauty is a good read. It is a compelling history of sexual selection, rather than a synthesis that moves the field forwards’Nature
The Ellesmere Wolves
In a fascinating story of discovery and science, we meet a remote population of wolves unafraid of humans. For parts of twenty-four summers, wolf biologist L. David Mech lived with a group of wolves on Ellesmere Island, some six hundred miles from the North Pole. Elsewhere, most wolves flee from even the scent of humans, but these animals, evolving relatively free from human persecution, are unafraid. Having already spent twenty-eight years studying other populations of wolves more remotely by aircraft, snow-tracking, live-trapping, and radio-tracking, Mech was primed to join their activities up close and record their interactions with each other. This book tells the remarkable story of what Mech—and the researchers who followed him—have learned while living among the wolves. The Ellesmere wolves were so unconcerned with Mech’s presence that they allowed him to camp near their den and to sit on his all-terrain vehicle as he observed them, watching packs as large as seven adults and six pups go about their normal activities. In these extraordinarily close quarters, a pup untying his bootlace or an adult sniffing his gloved hand was just part of daily life. Mech accompanied the wolves on their travels and watched as they hunted muskoxen and arctic hares. By achieving the same kind of intimacy with his wild hosts’ every action that we might experience living with domesticated dogs, Mech gained new insights into common but rarely studied behaviors like pup feeding, food caching, howling, and scent-marking. After Mech’s time at Ellesmere ended, his coauthors and fellow wolf researchers Morgan Anderson and H. Dean Cluff spent parts of four summers studying the wolves via radio collars, further illuminating the creatures’ movements and ecology. This book synthesizes their findings, offering both a compelling scientific overview of the animals’ behavior—from hunting to living in packs to rearing pups—and a tale of adventure and survival in the Arctic.
The Curious Life of the Cuckoo
The perfect gift for nature lovers, in this beautifully illustrated small format hardback, John Lewis-Stempel delves into the cuckoo's unique behaviour and captivating role in our cultural imagination, in folklore, myth, literature and music, turning his exquisite prose to one of the strangest tales of the countryside. ---Is there any bird more mysterious than the cucko? t is invariably heard, and not seen. And if seen, it is mistaken for a sharp-winged hawk. The female cuckoo - by a trick that borders on alchemy - is able to disguise its egg as another's. In Greek myth the god Zeus assumed the form of a cuckoo to seduce Hera. But we forgive the cuckoo its con-artistry, because it is the true herald of spring. It is the bird that uplifts our wintered hearts, with that first two-note 'cuk-koo' unmistakable as it sounds across the country. In The Curious Life of the Cuckoo, John Lewis-Stempel explains one of nature's greatest enigmas in vivid, lyrical prose, and celebrates this iconic bird. ---‘That John Lewis-Stempel is one of the best nature writers of his generation is undisputed.’ – Country Life‘His immense, patient powers of observation – along with a flair for the anthropomorphic – mean he is able to offer a portrait of animal life that's rare in its colour and drama.’ – Observer‘Engaging, closely-observed and beautiful ... this author’s deep love of the world around him is as inspiring as it is entertaining.’ – Daily Mail‘John Lewis-Stempel is the hottest nature writer around.’ – Spectator‘It’s his observation of the natural world – the sight, the sound, the smell of it – that is so memorable. He has a distinctively brisk, muscular style of writing that has a poetic intensity and concision. – Guardian‘His prose is immaculate’ – Der Spiegel‘Lewis-Stempel sees and hears things others will never see and hear, and he can write about them as no one else can.’– Daily Mail: Summer Reads
Living with Birds
Len Howard forged extraordinary relationships with the birds in her Sussex garden during the 1950s. This groundbreaking work in bird studies is also a captivating and immersive piece of nature writing.This bird biography tells the story of one exceptional Great Tit called Star. In opening her home to wild birds, Len Howard gained their trust and made astonishing discoveries about their capabilities. Star’s character and intelligence is revealed, and with patience, consistency and sensitivity Howard even succeeds in teaching Star to count using taps of her beak.Full of joy and wonder, as well as deep knowledge and fascinating detail, Living with Birds encompasses bird studies of all kinds including the fate of a lame fledgling, the bond between Great Tit parents and their babies and observations of migrant birds. It is also the story of how Howard succeeded in developing such an unusual relationship with the wild birds in her garden.''Howard seems to have stood on the brink of communication with a wild bird, something till now hardly conceivable...awe-inspiring'' Observer
The Snow Geese
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson PRizeWinner of the Hawthornden PrizeI had attached myself to the birds. I couldn''t move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn''t move on without the spring.One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins a quest to trace the million-strong flocks of snow geese making their spring flight thousands of miles north to the Arctic tundra. On his epic journey he meets people from every walk of life, from ex-nuns to train fanatics, and their stories resound with the longing to arrive at the right place in the world.Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Hawthornden Prize, The Snow Geese is a poignant and lyrical paean to the richness and wonder of the world around us. A unique blend of autobiography, travel and nature writing, this is a classic tale of belonging and the inescapable lure of home.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
Choroby včiel - Prevencia, diagnostika a liečenie, 2. vydanie
Pre zdravé včely a včelstvá
Včelárom sťažujú prácu nielen obávané choroby a ich spúšťače, akými sú napr. klieštiky Varroa, mor včelieho plodu alebo vijačky. Aj nové druhy patogénov, klimatické zmeny, prostriedky na ochranu rastlín a falšovanie vosku sú príčinou oslabovania včiel a celých včelstiev.
Z nemeckého originálu Handbuch Bienenkrankheiten vorbeugen, erkennen, behandeln preložil Ivan Fekete.
Bachova květová terapie pro zvířata, 2.vydání
Kniha Bachova květová terapie pro zvířata nabízí šetrný přístup k péči o emocionální, duševní i fyzické zdraví zvířat pomocí Bachových květových esencí. Tato přírodní léčba například umožnuje zvířatům lépe zvládat stres, zmírňovat úzkost, překonávat strach a přispívá k jejich celkové vyrovnanosti. Díky praktickým návodům a konkrétním příkladům je kniha skvělou volbou i pro začínající chovatele, kteří hledají způsob, jak svým čtyřnohým i dvounohým svěřencům dopřát harmonii, pohodu a vnitřní rovnováhu.
Mammals of Iberia
The definitive photographic guide to the mammals of Spain, Portugal and the Balearic Islands.With rushing rivers, steep mountains, and a rich variety of forests, the Iberian Peninsula is home to a wealth of wildlife. Over recent years, areas of conservation and rewilding have seen mammals such as the Grey Wolf and the endemic Iberian Ibex and Iberian Lynx thrive, making it an increasingly popular destination for ecotourists. Written by celebrated wildlife photographer Carlos Bocos Gonzalez and naturalist James Lowen, this guide covers all 99 terrestrial mammal species resident in the region. Each species account includes concise details on the animal’s behaviour, habitat and activity periods, as well as full colour photographs and descriptions of key features to aid accurate identification. Practical guidance for finding wildlife is also provided, including an overview of some of the best locations, seven recommended mammalwatching itineraries and information on how to watch mammals safely, responsibly and effectively. Portable yet authoritative, this is the perfect guide for travellers and wildlife enthusiasts visiting this spectacular region.
Field Guide to Mammals of Madagascar
A comprehensive photographic field guide to Madagascar''s stunning mammal faunaThanks to millions of years of isolation, the island of Madagascar is home to one of the most remarkable assemblages of mammals on earth. Nowhere else can boast such a combination of species-richness and endemism. Field Guide to Mammals of Madagascar covers all native species found on the island, including bats, tenrecs, mice and lemurs, as well as a small number of introduced, non-native species. Detailed species accounts cover description and identification, habitat and distribution, behaviour and where the best places to see a species might be; a detailed distribution map for each species is also included. Supporting chapters cover the island''s regions and habitats, threats to mammals, conservation, and important mammal-watching sites. The book is illustrated throughout with exceptional photography, including species rarely photographed previously. Field Guide to Mammals of Madagascar is an essential addition to the backpack of any wildlife-watcher visiting this amazing island.
Hegyen-völgyön
Makói és Geleji Makay Béla (1863-1942) jogászként és vadászíróként is tevékenykedett. 1888-tól osztálytanácsosi, 1919-től pedig helyettes államtitkári tisztséget töltött be a Magyar Királyi Vallás- és Közoktatásügyi Minisztériumban.
Vadászati élményeit megörökítő könyveinek érdekessége, hogy azokat saját maga illusztrálta, méghozzá művészi szinten, így azok nemcsak szépirodalmi, de festőművészeti szempontból is értéket képviselnek. Hegyen-völgyön című munkájában jórészt a Tátra tündérszép táján, égbe nyúló ormok, meredek szirtek és lankás mélyedések vidékén esett vaddisznó- és nyúlhajtások, vadliba- és szalonkalesek, őzbak-, szarvasbika- és zergevadászatok emlékét idézi fel.
Makay Béla egyszerre volt "lágyszívű természetimádó és szenvedélyes vadász". Ez a kettősség remekül megmutatkozik írásaiban is, amelyek mindegyikét áthatja az élővilág feltétlen csodálata és a vadászat iránti olthatatlan hév.
Všetko o chove králikov
Králiky sa už dávno nepovažujú len za živé plyšové hračky pre deti, ale obľúbili si ich aj dospelí. Keď si tieto roztomilé ušaté stvorenia k vám s dôverou pričuchnú a nechajú sa poškrabkať, otvoria srdce každého človeka. Spravíte všetko, aby sa váš malý kamarát cítil čo najlepšie. V tejto knihe nájdete užitočné odporúčania, ako na to.
Veterinárna lekárka Anne Warrlich je poprednou odborníčkou na králiky. Poradí vám, ako si vybrať vhodného králika, ako má vyzerať chov, prirodzená starostlivosť, výbehy a optimálna strava s dôrazom na zdravé zložky a vyvážený príjem živín. Dozviete sa, ako rozpoznať zdravotné problémy králikov, na čo dbať pri prevencii, diagnostike a liečbe, čo je neoceniteľné pre všetkých, ktorí chcú udržať svoje zvieratá zdravé a aktívne. Dostanete množstvo osvedčených tipov na rôzne aktivity s králikmi i na to, ako porozumieť ich správaniu a reči tela.
Králiky sú spoločenské, zvedavé a prítulné zvieratá, ktoré potrebujú priestor, lásku a pozornosť. Naučte sa, ako im poskytnúť tú najlepšiu starostlivosť. Kniha predstavuje 40 plemien králikov a prináša všetko, čo potrebujete vedieť o ich chove a spokojnom živote s nimi.
Z nemeckého originálu Handbuch Kaninchen (Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart, Nemecko, 2020) preložil Ivan Fekete.
Kategória literatúry Zvieratá, chovateľstvo, lov je zameraná na knihy, ktoré poskytujú informácie, poradenstvo a inšpiráciu pre všetkých záujemcov o chov zvierat a lov. Tieto knihy sa zaoberajú rôznymi aspektmi a témami týkajúcimi sa živočíchov, ich chovu, starostlivosti a ochrany, ako aj technikami a zručnosťami potrebnými pre lov.
V tejto kategórii nájdete rôznorodú literatúru, vrátane odborných príručiek o rôznych druhoch zvierat, ich biológii, správaní, potrebách a rôznych spôsoboch chovu a starostlivosti o ne.
Okrem toho sa kategória zameriava aj na tému lovu a poskytuje knihy o technikách lovu, výstroji a lovných zbraniach. Tieto knihy obsahujú užitočné rady, tipy a pokyny pre loveckých nadšencov a poľovníkov.
Nájdete tu knihy z kategórií psy a kynológia, mačky, kone, vtáky a hydina, akvárium, terárium, rybárstvo, poľovníctvo a hmyz.
