Originally published in 1908. One of the earliest books on bee keeping and the natural history of the honey bee. Contents Include: The Ancients and the Honey Bee The Isle of Honey Bee Masters in the Middle Ages The Commonwealth of the Hive Early Work in the Bee City Genesis of the Queen The Bride Widow The Sovereign Worker Bee Anatomy Mystery of the Swarm The Comb Builders The Drone The Modern Bee Farm Bee Keeping and the Simple Life. etc. Illustrated. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The art of needle felting can produce endless possibilities of hyper-realistic, almost taxidermic results. With a little know-how, some needles, wool and a few inexpensive accessories, you can learn to needle felt like a professional. Take your needle felting to a whole new level to create a range of lifelike British wildlife. World class felting master Cindy-Lou Thompson of Chicktin Creations will take you through the steps. Covering four different British wild animals, with illustrated step-by-step instructions, Cindy guides you through the process of creating different body shapes, proportions, armatures, coats, and blending, as well as realistic finishing touches such as eyes, nails, ears and detailing. Learn how to achieve a professional finish you will be proud of with different textured coats, blending, clipping, and adding shape and giving a realistic finishing touch with a variety of mediums and methods, some of which Cindy has designed and developed herself. From the author of the best-selling book A Masterclass in Needle Felting Dogs, this follow-up book will teach you new techniques, and inspire you to try new and exciting creations of your own!

The perfect hilarious and heartwarming gift for the festive season! When the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards announced a contest for the funniest animal photo, they received entries from all over the world. Now authors and the original Award founders Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam showcase the best of the best - as well as some never before seen - to present the most joyful photographs of wildlife ever printed. A pelican losing its lunch; a three-headed giraffe; a meerkat having a rough day... this is the must-have book that is perfect for animal lovers of all stripes!

In an attempt to standardize elements of the station routine, the book describes the procedures used in passerine and wader ringing stations. It offers a comparative analysis of versatile evaluation techniques such as measurements, orientation experiments and monitoring. The authors meticulously analyze different methods used to track birds, including catching passerines with mist-nets in land and wetland habitat, as well as the use of the Heligoland trap. The monograph, as a successful bid to establish a bird station routine that is favourable to both birds and ringers, will benefit all professional and amateur ringers.

Bear! Is a fascinating volume which will grip the interest and fire the imagination of both the seasoned outdoorsman and the one who must enjoy the thrills of big-game hunting from his arm-chair reading. The true, breath-taking field encounters between man and bear, which liberally appear throughout the books' pages, will capture and excite the reader, young or old. Certainly to the big-game hunter--whether he takes to the wooded hills after his black bear, to the remote crags and high basins after his grizzly, to the Coastal regions after his brown bear, or to the Eskimo-land after his great white polar bear--this volume with its wealth of how-to information will prove invaluable reading. But beyond this, Bear! is a revealing story of North America's Bears. It delves deeply into their habitat, their wondrous cycle of living, and their natural place in the scheme of wildlife. This book traces those basic behavior changes which have been forced upon our country's great ursines through man's westward movement, his contact with them, and his gradual driving of them to the last wilderness and sanctuaries for survival. Lastly, Bear! is a documentary of a noble animal's long struggle, in the minds and actions of men, to rise from the lowly status of a pest to that of a grand big-game animal. Bear! by Clyde Ormond, the renowned outdoorsman, is the result of thirty years of observation, study, hunting, and evaluation of a priceless but little known species. It is "must" ready for any sportsman.

Eastern waterfowlers, who know the black duck best, regard this big dusky bird as the top game bird against which all other ducks are measured. In parts of the Northeast this feeling of affection is so strong that in some circles only the black rates the name of "duck." All other species, even the famed canvasback, are "coots," "fish ducks," or are known by even less complimentary titles. Much of this devotion is justified. Without the black duck, wildfowling in much of the thickly settled East would be an unrewarding pastime. Big as a mallard, as wary as a Canada goose, and as handsome in full plumage as any duck that flies, the black duck fills a place on the American sporting scene that could be filled by no other waterfowl. Here is the dramatic story of the life of the black duck, from the time the broods hatch on the spruce-lined ponds of eastern Canada, through the hazardous flights to the southern wintering areas, to the return of the paired birds to the nesting grounds in spring. It is a story told authoritatively by a Canadian scientist whose adult life has been spent in studying the black duck from the fastnesses of its northern breeding grounds in Labrador and Ungava Bay, to the marshes of Louisiana. In this book are facts on the black and other species of waterfowl that will be new to many students of waterfowl as well as to sportsmen. Here also are recommendations for perpetuating the flights of these magnificent game birds.

Accompanied by superb photographs, this ground-breaking book is the first practical field guide to record the Zulu names of bird species commonly found in KwaZulu-Natal. Where one name was previously used to describe a number of birds belonging to the same genus (i.e. ukhozi for most eagles), the need existed to give species specific names.

The authors hope this book will be used to inspire a greater interest, awareness and protection of the avifaunal heritage of KwaZulu-Natal. It is vital for the heritage of all South Africans that these names are recorded and made widely available. Noleen Turner, a passionate birder and honorary research professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in collaboration with Prof Adrian Koopman and Roger Porter, led this seven-year project, together with 18 expert Zulu bird guides from various parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

The recording, derivation and crafting of these names has been a lengthy but fascinating process. Turner notes that the project has included not only the consideration of biodiversity management, but also the pursuit of social ecology, the long neglected but crucial ‘people’s’ aspect of conservation. She said when it came to Zulu names for birds, they had to fill in the gaps, and of the 550 species analysed, some were confirmation of well-known names, such as inkazwi for the fish eagle; some were selected from the most commonly known names such as inkankane for the hadeda ibis. Some names were redirected: for example, the name for the Brown-headed Kingfisher indwazela became the generic name for all kingfishers (ndwaza referring to the motionless position while waiting for prey).

Other new names were coined based on appearance, calls, behaviour and distribution such as isankawu (the bird whose call sounds like a vervet monkey) for the Southern Pochard, or umacutha derived from the Zulu word cutha (meaning to draw the body tense) as the generic name for herons, which perfectly describes the bird’s behaviour before it lunges at its prey.

Originally published in 1930 BRING' EM BACK ALIVE by FRANK BUCK AND EDWARD ANTHONY. Contents include: To Begin With ........ . . . . 3 CHAPTER I. Tapir on a Rampage ...... 7 II. Giant Jungle Man ....... 18 III. Tiger Revenge ........ 32 IV. Wanted: Two Rhinos ...... 48 V. Delivered: Two Rhinos ...... 61 VI. Jungle Laundress ....... 91 VII. Holter's Traps ........ 101 VIIL Chips Lends a Hand ...... 119 IX. Man-Eater ........ 130 X. Baby Boo ......... 161 XL Monkey Mothers ....... 173 XII. Ghost of Katong ....... 189 XIII. Elephant Temper ...... .200 XIV. Monkey Mischief ....... 221 XV. Loose on Board . . 2 XVI. Mouse-Deer . . W>. . . 6 . _--____, -, * XVIIL Eang Cobra ........ 272 Finally ............. 288. BRING' EM BACK ALIVE. TO BEGIN WITH . . . It might be well to state at the outset that my aim is not to write a book that will add one more volume to the world 9 s col lection of natural histories or the existing treatises on the habits of wild animals. Whatever I have to say about the peculiarities of different species is incidental to my adventures in the field of collecting. For eighteen exciting years I have been gathering live animals, reptiles and birds for the zoos, the circuses and the dealers. I have brought back to America thousands of specimens, A great many of these were collected for the New York Zoological Park, the Philadelphia Zoological Garden, the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, the St. Louis Zoological Gardens, the Dallas Zoo, the San Diego Zoological Park, the Milwaukee Zoo and the smaller zoos located in Memphis, Kansas City, San Antonio, Minneapolis and other cities. Many others were absorbed by the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Al G. Barnes WildAnimal Show, the Sells-Floto Circus, the Christy Brothers drew, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and other similar organizations. A good percentage of these specimens were sold direct to the zoo authorities and circus owners, the rest through dealers. I have had more than my share of thrills, including narrow escapes. Yet I am frank to say that these close calls do not represent a love of looking Death in the eye. I am not that kind of adventurer. I take no unnecessary risks. When a man oper ates on as big a scale as I do he doesn't have to look for trouble. No matter how careful one is, something is bound to go wrong when live animals and reptiles are handled wholesale. It is then that experience counts. When I listed all the specimens with which I've returned to America since I started bringing' em back alive I found myself wondering that I hadn't had more anxious moments. There were plenty, as I have indicated, but on the whole I consider my 4 self lucky. So many live creatures, if they had tried real hard, could have made much more trouble for me. Here's the list: 39 elephants; 60 tigers ( Royal Bengal, Mala yan and Manchurian); 28 spotted leopards; 20 black leopards; 10 clouded leopards; 4 Himalayan snow leopards; 20 hyenas; 52 orang-utans; 31 gibbon apes ( white-handed, silvery, agile, Hoolock's and siamang); over 5,000 monkeys of different varie ties; 20 tapirs; 120 Asiatic antelope and deer, including black buck, nilgai antelope, Indian gazette, axis deer, barking deer, hog deer, sambor, etc.; p anoas or pigmy water buffalo; i sla dang or Malayan gaur; i babirussa ( rarest of wttd swine}; 2 African cape buffalo; iS African antelope, including sable, water buck and the rare whiteoryx of the Sudan; 2 giraffes; 40 wild goats and sheep, including Markhor goats, Barbary sheep, Mala yan serow and Punjab sheep; n camels; 40 kangaroos and wal labies; 2 Indian rhinoceros ( the rarest and most valuable wild animals in America as this is written); 40 bears, including Mala yan honey bears, Himalayan black bears and Indian sloth bears; pa large pythons

Experience the excitement of the holidays and the joy of the seasons with the colorful characters of Tubblewood. Miss Duck would prefer to stay in the warmth of her cozy home sipping a cup of hot apricot tea. However, her life always turns into an adventure when she is called upon to help a friend or a neighbor. Throughout the year, you can join Miss Duck and her woodland friends in their escapades. They may be assisting the groundhog with a mystery guest on his big day, correcting a problem after an April Fool's Day prank goes too far, learning the meaning of Independence Day and how to celebrate the holiday in a safe manner, or working together to save Tubblewood Forest. Holiday traditions for St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Arbor Day, and Thanksgiving also are included. There is a tale to be savored for every season in this collection of stories. Intertwined throughout each story are valuable life messages. Miss Duck and her charming entourage teach these lessons through their words and actions and demonstrate them in a positive manner. The Tubblewood tales have universal appeal. They can be comprehended by young children and still hold the interest and imagination of older children and adults. The quality of the content spans all ages and any generation. Additionally, special scenes are artistically depicted in beautifully designed illustrations. Don't miss the opportunity to create memories by sharing this enchanting group of holiday stories with your loved ones. It's certain to be a time-treasured addition to any household library. Be sure to add to your collection another captivating book, Tales From Tubblewood: A Duck For All Seasons, which contains stories in the settings of Valentine's Day, Easter, summer vacation, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.